Re: cute comment

Usually, I don't have a very clever response when I am asked one of
_those_ questions. On this day, I felt proud. I was out riding muni
about a month ago. As I approached a man walking towards me, he asked,
"Where's your other half?" To which I replied, "Oh, she's shopping."

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5+ years of riding, and ask this question..whats backspin?! Oh and when
soembody asks me where my other wheel whent, i just say, left it behind
the fridge, or just "yah i guesse thats the last time i buy a bike from
the half off ads in the paper..."

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The most common response I get is people staring but then looking away
as soon as I look at them. It's like watching me ride fulfills some
guilty pleasure for them.

My favorite response though happened today. I decided to ride down the
steepest (offroad) hill on my university's campus. I live in a flat
area, so it's only about 20 feet high. But it's steep enough that most
people wouldn't ride a bike down it. Since I had stepped in the wet
grass, on the way down the hill my foot slipped off the plastic pedal,
and I bailed, landing nicely in the soft grass. All the students around
paused, and two girls in the distance started laughing.

I immediately stood up, put my fist in the air, smiled, and went,
"Yeeeaah!" Then I rode over to the girls, who didn't yet recognize me
but happen to be in my higher math classes, and I asked jokingly, "You
like that?"

They laughed and and then did a doubletake, sensing the incongruency of
someone that enjoys studying advanced math topics yet also tries to ride
a unicycle down a very steep hill, "Oh it's *you*?! What are you
doing?!"

To which I tersely responded, "Trying to ride my unicycle down the
hill." 😄

After reading some of the comments, I feel pretty blessed. I've heard
very few negative comments while unicycling.

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today my honor choir did a concert at my church. My moms the preacher so
we live in the parsanage (sp?) at the other end of the parking lot.
After i was done singing i led one of my fiends to my house, changed
clothes and showed him some stuff cause he's only heard of me riding.
after he leaves my director comes out and tells me that im supposed to
ride for a rennasaince feast we are singing at.

I had an older women stop me at the post office they other day. She told
me she admired my will to ride. She walks and rides bikes for excersise
and started to tell me about penny farthings so i gave a briefe history
on how uni'ing began. she was nice. i like nice people. 🙂

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phlegm said:

[BThey laughed and and then did a doubletake, sensing the incongruency
of someone that enjoys studying advanced math topics yet also tries to
ride a unicycle down a very steep hill, "Oh it's *you*?! What are you
doing?!"

[/B]

Euler's number is, I suppose, a valid skill level. Maybe omit one of the
mounts to get it down to 2.718281828. When do you reach level Pi?

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B L U E S H I F T

"You go through life and you choose." - Greg Harper

"Sometimes you choose wrong." - Greg Harper

"People who quote themselves are lame." - David Lowell

"I think I just broke my leg." - Greg Harper, 10/9/2004

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When riding in the country I tend to have less negative, insulting or
aggressive comments/behaviour from by-standers.

Country:
When riding through a small hamlet near my home village one Sunday
morning, I was approaching a group of horse riders from a local stables
out for their weekly riding lesson, when a girl at the back of the group
turned round, did a double-take then pointed and shouted "Wow ! A
unicycle !", whereupon I pointed back and shouted "Wow ! A horse !".
What an absurd mode of transport a horse is (he says with a hint of
irony) - sorry to all you horse-lovers.

Town:
A very unsavoury incident this year during the 100 mile ride from
Lincoln to Kings Lynn - there can't be much to do in the north
Cambridgeshire town of Wisbech for entertainment. The route took us
through a slightly shabby neighbourhood, five of us on Cokers - Alan
Chambers had caught a second wind and was ahead of Roger Davies and
Steve Colligan, followed a couple of hundred yards later by Mark Wiggins
and myself. I noticed Steve running back towards a group of youths at a
bus stop, shouting in his broad Mancunian brogue, with not a few
expletives. I think the youths were then even more surprised to see
both Mark and I mounting the pavement on our Cokers and heading towards
them from the opposite direction and Roger steaming in behind Steve.
What had happened was that one of the group had hurled, not compliments,
not abuse, but rocks at Roger and Steve as they had passed, striking
Steve but luckily not causing any harm. Naturally Steve wanted to
remonstrate with the aberrent teenagers. Presumably Alan had passed
through a couple of minutes earlier and woken them from their torpor as
all he attracted was abuse. Sadly, they will probably do the same again
next time they see something unexpected on the streets of that once fair
town. That was the low point of what was a fantastic days riding, that
and Sam crashing out at the 50 mile stage, and the wicked headwind, but
that was only for the first 75 miles.
Chris

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harper said:

*Euler's number is, I suppose, a valid skill level. Maybe omit one of
the mounts to get it down to 2.718281828. When do you reach level Pi?
*

I'm working on it. I still need the stomach ride and a couple mounts
for level 3. I've been distracted with learning to ride backwards and
idling though lately. Unicycling at an irrational skill level is kind
of fitting, don't you think? 😉

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phlegm said:

*Unicycling at an irrational skill level is kind of fitting, don't you
think? *

Yes. I remember being stuck at root 3 trying to mount weak foot for a
long time.

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I was riding through a park approaching a group of people. I slowed
down because I was coming up behind a guy who was walking in the same
direction. A young girl pointed toward me and repeatedly asked her
mother, "Is he in the circus?" "Is he in the circus?"

The guy walking in front of me was VERY confused until he discovered me
riding up behind him on a unicycle. He thought the girl was talking
about him (she was basically pointing right at him/me). Imagine NOT
having a unicycle and being asked if you are in the circus!

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Member of the
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-"People who quote themselves are lame"- - Dave Lowell

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When someone exclaims LOOK HE"S ON A UNICYCLE!, I say WOW! YOUR ON YOUR
FEET!!! LOOK AT THIS GUY ON HIS FEET!!!!

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"There are only 10 types of people in the world - Those who understand
binary, and those who don't" - NOT taken from MucRider's(?) sig line,
but from the front of my T shirt from the salvation armey

"There are 2 types of people... those who are greek and those who wish
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I was still standing at the traffic lights last month, waiting for the
pedestrian crossing light to turn green, and a guy walks up, looks at me
and says "It's cheaper on gas, huh?" I replied "Yep, and it's easier to
find parking on campus!"
Then last week riding home through the snow I passed a teenager standing
at the bus stop, I was all set for a weird look/abuse and got "Keep up
the good work!" I was so confused all I could mumble was "Err, thanks!"

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Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total
obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and
through me. And when it has gone past, I will turn the inner eye to see
its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will
remain.

* Bene Gesserit Litany Against Fear.

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This Fall my brother and I were both out riding our unicycles down the
sidewalk, when a bunch of girls drove by in a car and one yelled, "We
love you freaks!" Obviously, because they were in a car, they were gone
before we could say anything back......

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One of my favorite comments was when I was doing a muni ride in Los
Gatos on the Jone's trail. It has a speed limit that is strictly
enforced by rangers.

Some bikers coming up hill told me to "watch out, there are rangers down
there with a radar gun".

To which I replied, 'Why, what's the speed limit?'

They said "15 mph".

And I said "I'd be stoked if I could go that fast!"

I guess they didn't realize how fast uni's go..

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As I passed a neighbor walking the block, she said "I though by now you
would have given up on riding that silly thing."

I smiled, and rode on.

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Regards,
Chrashing
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phlegm said:

Unicycling at an irrational skill level is kind
of fitting, don't you think? 😉

Skill level i = dreaming that you can ride a unicycle while you
actually can't.

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