I’m riding down this bike path, lots of kids around, and one guy starts
saying to his kids, “Look, girls, a unicycle.” And I hear one girl say
“Yeah! Like a bear!”
I had to laugh.
John
John wrote:
>
> I’m riding down this bike path, lots of kids around, and one guy starts
> saying to his kids, “Look, girls, a unicycle.” And I hear one girl say
> “Yeah! Like a bear!”
That’s pretty wild.
I wonder if there really are unicycling bears or if it’s just some cartoon
or TV stunt that has propagated an image of unicycling bears. I know I’ve
seen bicycling bears but even then I think they’ve had training wheels.
Anyone!??
Christopher
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c_r_grove@yahoo.com writes: John wrote:
>> I’m riding down this bike path, lots of kids around, and one guy
>> starts saying to his kids, “Look, girls, a unicycle.” And I hear one
>> girl say “Yeah! Like a bear!”
>
>That’s pretty wild.
>
>I wonder if there really are unicycling bears or if it’s just some
>cartoon or TV stunt that has propagated an image of unicycling bears. I
>know I’ve seen bicycling bears but even then I think they’ve had
>training wheels.
>
>Anyone!??
There was a great and famous cartoon of a unicycling bear on the cover of
the New Yorker years ago. That was a drawing inspired, I believe, by an
incredibly popular book where there is a unicycling bear at some point in
the book (a dream?). The book is The World According to Garp. It came
out nearly two decades ago.
David Stone
Co-founder, Unatics of NY
1st Sunday / 3rd Saturday
@ Central Park Bandshell
1: 30 start time after 11/1/01
There’s a neat children’s book that features bears on unicycles. Starts
with one bear on one wheel and works its way up to 10 bears on one wheel.
(There’s a collision with a bunch of bikes at one point, but, never fear,
it has a happy ending.)
It’s called “Bears on Wheels: A Bright and Early Counting Book,” by Stan
and Jan Berenstain, copyright 1969, hardcover.
It’s not stocked any more at the bookstores, so I’ve been looking for
copies at sales and used book stores. (It’s fairly expensive to order a
used copy online.)
I want one for Christmas. (Hello, Santa?) I also want an ultimate wheel.
And an all-expenses-paid trip to Unicon. . . .And a coffee table. . . .
Ok, maybe I can live without the coffee table.
Anyway, that could be one reason kids think bears ride unicycles.
According to some sources, they do. (But just bearly.)
Have a pleasant day,
Carol M. Minnesota
>>
>
> I’m riding down this bike path, lots of kids around, and one guy starts
> saying to his kids, “Look, girls, a unicycle.” And I hear one girl say
> “Yeah! Like a bear!”
>
> I had to laugh.
>
>John
>
>
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The best (and only) literary-referenced comment I’ve received was woman explaining to her young son, “Look, she’s got one wheel…just like Curious George!”
My favorite overall comment was called out to me as I rode past a couple of national guardsmen assisting the NYC rescue mission in late September. “We’ll help you find your other wheel, Miss!”
Favorite overheard comment: After I passed, a young man muttered to his friend, “The word ‘inefficient’ comes to mind…”
(Ironic, since I was riding my 29"!)
Does anyone else have favorite/memorable comments?
-Anne from NYC
My signature slogan says it all. I was riding by a guy who was watering his lawn. He looked up and, without hesitation, said, “it takes twice the man to ride half the bike.”
Anne wrote:
i>[/i]
i> The best (and only) literary-referenced comment I’ve received was woman[/i]
i> explaining to her young son, “Look, she’s got one wheel…just like[/i]
i> Curious George!”[/i]
Most people that know me have figured that I’ve “only had one wheel”
all along!
or… a half-bubble off of level one brick short of a load an empty attic
a 51 card deck vapour lock in the fuel-line flyin’ without
cargo…
Christopher
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can give me more info on THIS Basil King please email
me.)
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If you are in the Ann Arbor/Ypsilanti, MI area check out my resume and if
you know of a company that fits me please let me know… Thanks!
On Tue, 20 Nov 2001 06:45:12 +0000 (UTC),
Anne <forum.member@unicyclist.com> wrote:
> Does anyone else have favorite/memorable comments?
Look! a looney-cycle!
regards, Ian SMith
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Ian Smith <ian@achrn.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Nov 2001 06:45:12 +0000 (UTC),
> Anne <forum.member@unicyclist.com> wrote:
>> Does anyone else have favorite/memorable comments?
> Look! a looney-cycle!
Are you sure it shouldn’t be “Look! a Luni-cycle!” and be a reference to a
uni belonging to a member of London’s unicycle hockey team?
Paul
Paul Selwood paul@vimes.u-net.com http://www.vimes.u-net.com
Ian Smith <ian@achrn.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Nov 2001 06:45:12 +0000 (UTC),
> Anne <forum.member@unicyclist.com> wrote:
>> Does anyone else have favorite/memorable comments?
> Look! a looney-cycle!
Are you sure it shouldn’t be “Look! a Luni-cycle!” and be a reference to a
uni belonging to a member of London’s unicycle hockey team?
Paul
Paul Selwood paul@vimes.u-net.com http://www.vimes.u-net.com
Now wouldn’t a loony-cycle be a cheap Canadian Unicycle?
once me and a friend were riding across a field and a car full of teen aged boys drove by. somebody yelled out with crystal clear pronounciation “unicycling is for homosexuals”. it was pretty funny. er maybe ya just had to be there.
“how much was your bike? did you get it half off?”
does this one make anyone else want to kill? “huh-huh wheres your other wheel?” or the old “ya put two of those together youd have a bike”
Nice quote - but where’s your sig?
Klaas Bil
On Tue, 20 Nov 2001 16:55:08 +0000 (UTC), harper
<forum.member@unicyclist.com> wrote:
>My signature slogan says it all. I was riding by a guy who was watering
>his lawn. He looked up and, without hesitation, said, "it takes twice the
>man to ride half the bike."
>
>
>
>
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David Stone wrote:
>
> There was a great and famous cartoon of a unicycling bear on the cover
> of the New Yorker years ago.
That cover was drawn by Charles Addams and published May 23, 1983. It
shows a bear carrying a brief case while riding a giraffe unicycle in the
diamond lane of an otherwise empty city street. I can call up this piece
of trivia because I have that cover hanging on a wall in one of our
bathrooms. Last winter we wall-papered the bathroom with some of my
favorite New Yorker covers that I had been saving for years. I couldn’t
bring myself to glue the unicycle cover on to the wall. Instead I framed
that one and hung it on the wall.
There was one other unicycle on a New Yorker cover. The Sept. 26, 1942
issue pictured a guy riding a giraffe in a USO show for an all male GI
audience. The unicycler is also juggling 8 knives while balancing a ball
on his head and another ball on a stick held in his mouth. The GI’s in the
audience are all ignoring the unicycler and are staring at his assistant
(a girl in a skimpy outfit) standing on the opposite end of the stage.
John Hooten
and my best overheard comment as I wobbled my way down the path was “I bet
SHE just can’t wait until next Christmas”
–
I find it quite astonishing what some guys can do with three balls. Naomi
> Anyway, that could be one reason kids think bears ride unicycles.
> According to some sources, they do. (But just bearly.)
I think bears have ridden bicycles unassisted. But I’m pretty sure the
only non-humans to ride unicycles have been chimpanzees and orangutans.
When I was little I saw a chimpanzee do it at the Detroit Zoo, on what
would scale to be probably an 8’ or higher giraffe!
Stay on top, John Foss, the Uni-Cyclone jfoss@unicycling.com
www.unicycling.com
“If it weren’t for the last minute, nothing would get done.” - Kevin
“Gilby” Gilbertson
> Anyway, that could be one reason kids think bears ride unicycles.
> According to some sources, they do. (But just bearly.)
I think bears have ridden bicycles unassisted. But I’m pretty sure the
only non-humans to ride unicycles have been chimpanzees and orangutans.
When I was little I saw a chimpanzee do it at the Detroit Zoo, on what
would scale to be probably an 8’ or higher giraffe!
Stay on top, John Foss, the Uni-Cyclone jfoss@unicycling.com
www.unicycling.com
“If it weren’t for the last minute, nothing would get done.” - Kevin
“Gilby” Gilbertson
> Anyway, that could be one reason kids think bears ride unicycles.
> According to some sources, they do. (But just bearly.)
I think bears have ridden bicycles unassisted. But I’m pretty sure the
only non-humans to ride unicycles have been chimpanzees and orangutans.
When I was little I saw a chimpanzee do it at the Detroit Zoo, on what
would scale to be probably an 8’ or higher giraffe!
Stay on top, John Foss, the Uni-Cyclone jfoss@unicycling.com
www.unicycling.com
“If it weren’t for the last minute, nothing would get done.” - Kevin
“Gilby” Gilbertson
> Anyway, that could be one reason kids think bears ride unicycles.
> According to some sources, they do. (But just bearly.)
I think bears have ridden bicycles unassisted. But I’m pretty sure the
only non-humans to ride unicycles have been chimpanzees and orangutans.
When I was little I saw a chimpanzee do it at the Detroit Zoo, on what
would scale to be probably an 8’ or higher giraffe!
Stay on top, John Foss, the Uni-Cyclone jfoss@unicycling.com
www.unicycling.com
“If it weren’t for the last minute, nothing would get done.” - Kevin
“Gilby” Gilbertson
> Anyway, that could be one reason kids think bears ride unicycles.
> According to some sources, they do. (But just bearly.)
I think bears have ridden bicycles unassisted. But I’m pretty sure the
only non-humans to ride unicycles have been chimpanzees and orangutans.
When I was little I saw a chimpanzee do it at the Detroit Zoo, on what
would scale to be probably an 8’ or higher giraffe!
Stay on top, John Foss, the Uni-Cyclone jfoss@unicycling.com
www.unicycling.com
“If it weren’t for the last minute, nothing would get done.” - Kevin
“Gilby” Gilbertson