Quote of the day (from non-riders)



Most of the comments in this thread come about when people are actually
unicycling. This particular comment came from a non rider at work when
I was explaining why I was wearing a wrist brace and some bandages.
After relaying the gist of the 'accident' (http://tinyurl.com/2ux2ny)
he summed up the incident with "Oh, you got caught in a gravity storm!"
Well, that was one way of putting it.


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from a rider this one.

riding down a busy street with bustling people about, jono (who is
riding in front of me) twists his head and exclaims: "i thought i could
hear you one footering!"


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I got so many good comments and compliments this last week I can't
remeber them all..... most of them were saying how amazing I was at
unicycling(which I'm really not) and how impressed they were with me
being able to keep up with a bunch of people on bikes around the San
Juan Islands. I actually felt like I should have been riding my bike
instead because I was getting more attention than I wanted... tomorrow
I go back to work at camp and get to get even more attention from a
bunch of cub scouts, I think I'm sick of being paid attention to
now....


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A bunch of three comments on Dartmoor yesterday.

From a group of six mountain bikers, the last lady of the bunch said
"You may only have half the punctures, but you deserve twice the
respect!". Nice of her to say that, especially due to the fact that she
never saw me riding it...

During a short road section, a driver in a passing 4x4 remarks "That's
absolutely fantastic!". Errr, why? It's actually extremely easy to ride
on a smooth tarmac road, so I don't know why he was so ecstatic.

Finally, coming back into the car park I ride past an elderly couple.
The woman remarks to the man "It's as if walking isn't good enough for
some people anymore".


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i've finally reached sem-celebrity status around my city. i was walking
down the street with one of my friends, neither of us had uni's with
us. a grup of people came outof a store and one of them sees me and
goes "OMFG thats the unicycle dude, he does all kinds of crazy s#*t on
oe wheel." i just turned around looked at them and said "hell yea" and
walked away. it made my day


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Best one I've heard yet: Riding on a paved bike path, I passed a 4 year
old boy on his first two wheeler. He sped up to talk to me, and
instead of commenting on the uni, proceeds to tell me how hard it was
going from his tricycle to two wheels!


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Riding down to Upton-upon-Severn, a name all in the UK will have heard
recently, to view the flood levels.
As I pass the fire station on the way into town on of the fireman
comments aloud,

"See, that's what happens when you ride your bike through the floods"


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ian.stockwell wrote:
> Riding down to Upton-upon-Severn, a name all in the UK will have heard
> recently, to view the flood levels.
> As I pass the fire station on the way into town on of the fireman
> comments aloud,
>
> "See, that's what happens when you ride your bike through the floods"


how bad is it?


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> A hobnob is an oaty biscuit, the fact that they don't exist in america
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unirox13 wrote:
> i've finally reached sem-celebrity status around my city. i was walking
> down the street with one of my friends, neither of us had uni's with
> us. a grup of people came outof a store and one of them sees me and
> goes "OMFG thats the unicycle dude, he does all kinds of crazy s#*t on
> oe wheel." i just turned around looked at them and said "hell yea" and
> walked away. it made my day


Me too...whenever I go into the bike store here, the guys there know
that whatever I'm getting is for my unicycle, not a bike.


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thejdw wrote:
> how bad is it?



If you live in the town, which fortunately I don't you haven't been
able to drive out since Saturday evening, but you have been able to
walk out.
Also quite a number of houses are flooded but they are nearly all old
ones. Maybe that's why they've not featured on the news, evil modern
planners seems to be trendy, but not the fact that we've been doing
this for hundreds of years.
The media has been exagerating things (cries of NO, surely not) Upton
cut off by floods, people marooned, sounds so much better than Upton
residents forced to walk through 3 inches of water.
Also we still have power and mains water so generally things are OK.
The biggest hardship I've had is that I had to walk to the italian
restaurant on Friday.


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One of my new work mates realised he'd seen me before...


''OHHHH... you're the -unicycle- boy!''


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ian.stockwell wrote:
> If you live in the town, which fortunately I don't you haven't been able
> to drive out since Saturday evening, but you have been able to walk
> out.
> Also quite a number of houses are flooded but they are nearly all old
> ones. Maybe that's why they've not featured on the news, evil modern
> planners seems to be trendy, but not the fact that we've been doing
> this for hundreds of years.
> The media has been exagerating things (cries of NO, surely not) Upton
> cut off by floods, people marooned, sounds so much better than Upton
> residents forced to walk through 3 inches of water.
> Also we still have power and mains water so generally things are OK.
> The biggest hardship I've had is that I had to walk to the italian
> restaurant on Friday.


so its pretty safe then? Your not going to drown?


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kington99 wrote:
> A hobnob is an oaty biscuit, the fact that they don't exist in america
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ian.stockwell wrote:
> The media has been exagerating things (cries of NO, surely not) Upton
> cut off by floods, people marooned, sounds so much better than Upton
> residents forced to walk through 3 inches of water.
>



mm yes I always wonder about this, people being rescued form 4ft of
water in their houses? I mean can't you just walk through that? it's
not like there've been raging torrents, we've had heavy flooding round
here but none of it is moving at more than walking pace, if that. Sure
children and the elderly might need some help but the rest? I mean
can't people swim these days? I see videos of of people being lifted
from the roofs of their cars by helicopter, now i don't know about you
all but i'm taller than a car, so if the roof is out the water then i
could quite happily stroll through it. I just don't really understand
it.


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kington99 wrote:
> 4ft of water in their houses? I mean can't you just walk through that?

Water doesn't have to be moving fast before there's an awful lot of
power in it. Fast moving water up to the knees can easily knock people
over, so even slow moving water can be dodgy if it's 4' deep. Plus you
can't see what's under the water, plus you end up wherever you're going
soaked in minging water, with doubtful access to showers/spare
clothing. It also depends on how far you have to go. 4' deep water for
1 mile?

Anyway, quotes of the day - we got one on the Malvern section of the
Dartmoor muni weekend that was new on me: "That looks really good fun,
but very hard". I nearly fell off I was so surprised. People aren't
supposed to think about these things and then sum it all up so well in
one sentence.


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johnhimsworth wrote:
> Water doesn't have to be moving fast before there's an awful lot of
> power in it. Fast moving water up to the knees can easily knock people
> over, so even slow moving water can be dodgy if it's 4' deep. Plus you
> can't see what's under the water, plus you end up wherever you're going
> soaked in minging water, with doubtful access to showers/spare
> clothing. It also depends on how far you have to go. 4' deep water for
> 1 mile?
>




You make good points, and I'm sure in some situations it is entirely
necessary, but I just saw a family of four on the news, descrobed as
'trapped', all able-bodied and none too young or too old being
transported in a boat. The boat was being propelled with ease by a
firemen, who was walking through the water. The water didn't quite come
up to his knees. :rolleyes: I guess I'm just annoyed at the
sensationalisation of the media recently, words like 'trapped' should
be used in conjunction with 'lava flowe' or 'collasped mine', not two
feet of stationary water.

But anyway I'm going way off topic.


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johnhimsworth wrote:
> Water doesn't have to be moving fast before there's an awful lot of
> power in it. Fast moving water up to the knees can easily knock people
> over.


I remember watching this stuntman getting flung off his feet by a 25cm
wave moving at high speed, it was a TV show about somthing.

Oh yeah, quote:
"mumy, thats not real, is it? No thats imposoble, he must be cheating"
- small boy. I lauged alot haha :D


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Not really a quote, but actions speaker louder than words ;) I was
practicing unispins in my driveway yesterday and this woman walked by
pushing a kid, maybe 2 or so in a stroller, and as she pushed him along
he craned his head around the side so he could watch me for as long as
possible before they went around the building... Best compliment I've
had in a while :)


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I got a car-full of gapeing faces, on my trip when I took a corner on my
coker really tight at high speed and snapped from almost a 45 degree
angle to vertical about 1-2 feet from a car stopped a lane over, the
stupid corner was one of those weird shapped acute triangle corners,
that have the bike lane hugging them the whole way around. I am still
swelling with pride from the many comments about how amazing I am on a
unicycle I got from the cub scouts this week who saw me joust a boke
today while on my coker and win, the first round was a draw where we
both fell off, and the second I won! I also jousted another unicyclist
I was on my coker and he was on my 20 inch and he hit me when my pedals
were stalled and I fell flat on my back still in the saddle, it was
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dude, that huge jump you did was real cool!
i liked it a lot!
-some cool little kid :) the jump was up a large 4 stair


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