Best answer to same question: Where's your other wheel?

[PBOly]

I'm sure we have done this thread before but I want some good comebacks to the same comment I get all the time: Where is your other wheel? Hey, you lost a wheel? Etc. I just want a answer that shows I am not as lame as they are with their non-imaginative question. What do you say?

[La Rueda Perdida]

I've been thinking of something along the lines of:

"This bike was on sale for half-off"

or

"This was a bike shop error in my favor"

But the wording is awkwardly artificial to me.

[PBOly]

I sometimes say "one wheel is all you need" or "one person on wheel" or "it's just a wheeley without the other wheel!"

[stag]

Originally Posted by PBOly

I sometimes say "one wheel is all you need" or "one person on wheel" or "it's just a wheeley without the other wheel!"

I like that one, I'll try and remember to use it next time I'm out. I used to ride past a pub in my local area and guy sitting outside always used to come out with the wheelie joke and laugh to his friends as if he was the most original person in the universe.

[aracer]

Originally Posted by stag

I like that one, I'll try and remember to use it next time I'm out. I used to ride past a pub in my local area and guy sitting outside always used to come out with the wheelie joke and laugh to his friends as if he was the most original person in the universe.

On a related note, I do have a stock answer to the "do a wheelie" comment - "I already am". Was slightly surprised to get that from one course-side tent whilst riding at Mountain Mayhem, as almost everybody I came across was very supportive and impressed - maybe they thought it was a supportive comment (I think they'd been on the beer ) - though my stock answer raised a laugh, so is clearly non-offensive to the questioner.

[dangerlaef]

"On my other unicycle."

[Tucson Uni]

My favorite is "I got rid of the training wheel"

[MuniAddict]

Here's a few of my originals, said with a smile and a laugh:

"I got old and worn out...like that joke!"

"Where's your joke writer?"

"I'm sorry, the correct response would have been, 'that's awesome!' We also would have accepted, 'That's badass!', but thanks for playing!"

"What do you mean? (make them explain it) But this isn't a bike, it's a unicycle." (explain the difference to them)

"Where's your originality?"

I needed a *real* challenge! If they're on a bike, add, "what's your excuse!?"

"I figure I have to get good enough on ONE before I try TWO!"

"It was stolen, but it's ok, they left me the best half!"

[aracer]

"It had a puncture" is one I've used to people I know (parents of my son's classmates) and didn't want to offend.

[JJuggle]

A bicycle is, by definition, a unicycle with a training wheel.

All my responses to this, when I bother to respond, revolve around this self evident fact. I am sometimes preemptive, taunting even, and ask bicyclists when they plan on getting rid of their training wheel?

No one has yet come up with anything even remotely close to a retort. This is because it is a sound bite the refutation of which requires more time than they have to formulate because they are either speeding by on their bicycles or in their cars or I am speeding by them who are on foot.

[Alucard]

I've done this twice now, quite funny.


response....
''What do you mean ,where's my other wheel ?''

Look round in horror

'' OMG someone's stolen my other wheel AAaaaarrrrrggggg!!! ''

Then ride away screaming and waving arms like a loon.

That might stop them asking THAT question ever again

[Alucard]

Quote ride away screaming and waving arms like a loon. Quote


Hehe, (that's my usual riding technique. snigger )

[stag]

Originally Posted by MuniAddict

"Where's your originality?"

Yeah, I sometimes reply with something similar: "If I got a quid for every time someone said that to me..."

[MuniAddict]

I also sometimes carry a little rc airplane wheel, attached to a string worn around my neck, and if asked that question I say, "here it is!" as I lift it out from under my shirt.

[MuniAddict]

I ride almost every day and hardly ever get that, or similar comment. But when and if I do I always reply with an original, witty comeback, and always with a wink and a smile that always gets them to laugh and smile right back. 98% of the time hikers and bikers make very positive comments, and even call out "UniGeezer!", having seen my videos on youtube. The best part is, many of them have taken up the sport as a result!