I was out riding yesterday and passed a man on one of those adult tricycles. I
couldn’t resist. I exclaimed as I passed by, “There’s my other wheel!” He smiled
and waved. 
Re: Found my other wheel
In a message to the list, Seth Golub wrote:
> I was out riding yesterday and passed a man on one of those adult tricycles. I
> couldn’t resist. I exclaimed as I passed by, “There’s my other wheel!” He
> smiled and waved.
I was out riding on Saturday and I passed a woman trimming the borders of her
lawn with a lawn-edger.
(A lawn-edger is a pole with small wheel-shaped blade at end. It has an
attachment on which your put your foot to dig in the blade along the edge of
your lawn to keep it tidy.)
To me it looked like she was trying to unsuccessfully free-mount. I called out
to her that she needed a bigger wheel if she wanted to ride it, but she just
ignored me.
I was part of a team of two unicyclists on Sunday who rode in a 5 km charity
“walk” for the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation of Australia ($A720 raised between
us). It went very well - we handed out hundreds of “2-for-1” coupons for a local
sandwich bar, who were our major sponsors, and had a lot of fun, both by
ourselves and with the crowds.
My idling abilities still aren’t strong, so I had to be careful not to get
hemmed in amongst the 5000-odd walkers. Later that night, I walked past a crowd
outside a fast-food shop, and someone walked straight in front of me. It took me
a few shocked moments before I realised I was walking; I could come to a
complete stop and wait for them to get out of the way - I didn’t have to quickly
dismount, or swerve madly
I look forward to another chairty walk (and I recommend it to others) as
opportunity for a very gentle introduction to performing amongst crowds without
the demands of a paid performance / busking.
– Julian Orbach (julian@cs.uq.oz.au) – University of Queensland,
Brisbane, Australia