Hi,
Apparently some of you use a Uni to do some light backpack-style
grocery shopping.
This brings up the question: what to do once arrived at the store?
Take it inside and prop it in the cart, lock it outside (how to keep
it upright…)?
“Not even owning an uni yet, but asking a whole lot of questions”, Oz
Re: ?: Going shopping with an Uni
Oz,
No problem. I’ve never shopped with my Uni, but I’m gonna answer. So there. 
I don’t see how anybody can part with their baby. Either walk it in one hand, with the hand-basket in the other (and backpack in place) OR just place your “child” into the BIG cart, and use the kid-seat section to throw your few items into.
Or, if your “child” prefers, he or she may ride on the bottom of the cart.
Lewis
I always carry my 20" or 24" unicycle in one hand as I go through a store. If I’m on the Coker, though, nobody asks any questions if the wheel should accidentally hit the ground. That’s more of a matter of awe.
Lewis is right…who could leave their baby outside. There are two conflicting points here: 1.) a unicycle is easy to steal 2.) what would a thief do with a unicycle?
One could always carry some kind of lock in the backpack I suppose.
Re: ?: Going shopping with an Uni
I went to the local Safeway on mine on sunday; the second time I’ve used it
to actually go anywhere. It was great fun… unicycling through the car
park to get to the cycle rack I got so many odd looks and comments, it was
fantastic. But the best bit was going past the usual little group of
skateboarding ‘younguns’… they stopped doing all their tricks and just
watched as I unicycled up, dismounted, locked it up and wandered off.
Classic…
I think it’s really a bit off carrying it around inside, especially given
you really need both hands to shop anyway. And the aisles are crowded enough
as it is without you carrying another large funny shaped object round with
you.
Could it hang on the back of a trolley maybe?
Phil, just me
“harper” <harper.164ob@timelimit.unicyclist.com> wrote in message
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>
> I always carry my 20" or 24" unicycle in one hand as I go through a
> store. If I’m on the Coker, though, nobody asks any questions if the
> wheel should accidentally hit the ground. That’s more of a matter of
> awe.
>
> Lewis is right…who could leave their baby outside. There are two
> conflicting points here: 1.) a unicycle is easy to steal 2.) what would
> a thief do with a unicycle?
>
> One could always carry some kind of lock in the backpack I suppose.
>
>
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Re: ?: Going shopping with an Uni
“Animation” wrote:
> place your “child” into the BIG cart, and use the kid-seat section to
> throw your few items into.
Yep this is definately the way to go. Shove the uni in the trolley and pack
your goods round it. Just make sure that you don’t get the dippy sales
assistant who tries to ring for a price check on the “strange bike thingy”.
The King Street Safeway in Aberdeen were very used to seeing a 20"
Ringmaster in the trolley when I lived there. Don’t do it so much these days
as my local store is at the bottom of a hill.
Try cycling with the shopping bags instead of a backpack. You’d be surprised
how easy it is. Because the bags hang down from your arms it lowers your
center of gravity making riding that bit easier. If you use a backpack you
are raising the centre of gravity making riding harder.
Regards,
Noel
Re: Re: ?: Going shopping with an Uni
I had a clerk in a Fred Meyers department store who tried to ring mine up once.
I went shopping for snacks at a wal-greens. I never got off the uni. the only tuff part was opening the doors. it was late at night so there were not very many people.
When i go to stop&shop somtimes the people who work the deli ask me to ride for them.
i have never really bought more then 4 items, and no more then 2 litres of soda. I had 1 upd trying to get the soda off the rack.
pointless input from,
dan
Re: Re: ?: Going shopping with an Uni
My only easly visible scars came from cycling home with groceries. After the Co-Op, I hit Safeway, and left with a back pack full of groceries- 25 lbs, at least (did I really NEED all those potatoes?). Climbing a fairly steep hill, I pitched forward and drove my chin into the concrete. The extra weight up high shoved me down REALLY fast. I came too in a puddle of blood with an old man leaning over me. “You really busted your ass”, he said, “better see a doctor about that chin.”, and walked off.
Surgery was a memorable experience. Still, when clean shaven I can take some solice in being able to tell people who ask about the scar that “I got it unicycling”.
Oh, ya- the cycle goes in the cart- don’t be daff.
Christopher
Re: ?: Going shopping with an Uni
— uni-man-dan
<uni-man-dan.168ly@timelimit.unicyclist.com> wrote:
>
> I went shopping for snacks at a wal-greens. I never
> got off the uni. the
> only tuff part was opening the doors. it was late at
> night so there were
> not very many people.
>
> When i go to stop&shop somtimes the people who work
> the deli ask me to
> ride for them.
>
I WORKED THERE! I rode my unicycle all around the
store sometimes after work, when i was there to buy
stuff. Also the benches out side, curbs, and shurbery
are great trials probs. The benches are great to grind
on.
> i have never really bought more then 4 items, and no
> more then 2 litres
> of soda. I had 1 upd trying to get the soda off the
> rack.
>
> pointless input from,
> dan
>
>
> –
> uni-man-dan
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Re: Going shopping with an Uni
My wife does this all the time (several times per week). She puts the
unicycle in the bottom shelf of the shopping cart. It then gets pushed
around the store! When I first heard that I was amazed, but she does it with
the Telford (and its 24x3 Gazz) or her Miyata 24 which doesn’t get used much
any more. She says all the Safeway people are very used to seeing her with
it there.
—Nathan
“Oliver Zechlin” <oliverzechlin@msn.com> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> Apparently some of you use a Uni to do some light backpack-style
> grocery shopping.
>
> This brings up the question: what to do once arrived at the store?
> Take it inside and prop it in the cart, lock it outside (how to keep
> it upright…)?
>
> “Not even owning an uni yet, but asking a whole lot of questions”, Oz
Re: ?: Going shopping with an Uni
I do all my shopping on my uni - I don’t have a car and walking the mile and
back is boring compared to doing it on a uni. As for what I do with it when
I get there I have to put my hands up to just leaving it outside the door…
unlocked. I’m lucky in that I live on a small island where the folks are
good and it is safe. Also I’m very careful not to tell anyone that it’s
worth over 1000 UKP so, like Harper said, what would someone do with it if
they stole it? On trips to the mainland I’m not quite so care free though.
Usually I’ll find a space for it just inside the shop door and out of the
way. No problems doing that so far. The ability of a unicycle to completely
disarm the grumpiest of shop keepers has resulted in virtually all places
being only too happy for me to bring it in.
This makes me think… S.W.A.T. teams should use unicycles instead of guns.
How could any bank robber maintain any hostile intent against them? Oh
dear… I was actually serious for a minute there 
Neil
I’ve never had a complaint when taking my 26" Pashley into Off licences or newsagents when I was a beginner the shop keeper was asking how much I was improving each week.
As far as the supermarket is concerned I always lock it in the cycle area so I can get around the shop quickly (the shop is busy relative to its size). My view being that if the wheel of a Pashley is locked:
I could only lose the saddle and frame.
The thief would need some spanners handy.
Unless the thief had experience of removing these lollipops before I am bound to have finished shopping first.
The cycle racks are next to the entrance, I am certain someone would notice a Uni being dismantled whilst locked to a wall.
Keith
Re: ?: Going shopping with an Uni
I use a similar technique, I dump the unicycle out side the shop if there is
a group of kids outside the shop (and there normally is). I then get the
call “Can I use it Roger” I call “yeh”. The kids around here now think that
carbon fibre unicycles with 3" tyres ARE the standard ones!
Roger
The UK’s Unicycle Source
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From: “Neil Dunlop” <neild@roachmill.demon.co.uk>
To: “RSU” <rsu@unicycling.org>
Sent: Friday, March 08, 2002 7:18 AM
Subject: Re: ?: Going shopping with an Uni
> I do all my shopping on my uni - I don’t have a car and walking the mile
and
> back is boring compared to doing it on a uni. As for what I do with it
when
> I get there I have to put my hands up to just leaving it outside the
door…
> unlocked. I’m lucky in that I live on a small island where the folks are
> good and it is safe. Also I’m very careful not to tell anyone that
it’s
> worth over 1000 UKP so, like Harper said, what would someone do with it if
> they stole it? On trips to the mainland I’m not quite so care free though.
> Usually I’ll find a space for it just inside the shop door and out of the
> way. No problems doing that so far. The ability of a unicycle to
completely
> disarm the grumpiest of shop keepers has resulted in virtually all places
> being only too happy for me to bring it in.
>
> This makes me think… S.W.A.T. teams should use unicycles instead of
guns.
> How could any bank robber maintain any hostile intent against them? Oh
> dear… I was actually serious for a minute there
>
> Neil
>
>
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www.unicycling.org/mailman/listinfo/rsu
>
Re: ?: Going shopping with an Uni
rhysling.16agn@timelimit.unicyclist.com writes:
>My only easly visible scars came from cycling home with groceries.
>After the Co-Op, I hit Safeway, and left with a back pack full of
>groceries- 25 lbs, at least (did I really NEED all those potatoes?).
>Climbing a fairly steep hill, I pitched forward and drove my chin into
>the concrete. The extra weight up high shoved me down REALLY fast.
A neat experiment by Galileo Galilee several hundred years ago
demonstrated that gravity is not affected by an object’s mass. What you
experienced was the fact that your reaction time was lessened and your
momentum was greater, but you were not driven faster by the groceries.
Sorry about that scar, tho.
David
> I
>came too in a puddle of blood with an old man leaning over me. “You
>really busted your ass”, he said, “better see a doctor about that
>chin.”, and walked off.
>
>Surgery was a memorable experience. Still, when clean shaven I can
>take some solice in being able to tell people who ask about the scar
>that “I got it unicycling”.
Re: ?: Going shopping with an Uni
I have shopped with a uni for over two decades. Recently I added to the
fun by pushing a stroller while uni’ing. THen I’d go into a shop, leave
the uni somewhere unobtrusive, and shop. I never got the feeling that it
would be ok to ride in any store, fun as that would be. But I have left
unis outside shops for several minutes on many occasions with no troubles.
Unlocked.
David
PS: Strollers are a great way to learn wheel walking.
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Re: Re: ?: Going shopping with an Uni
The key frase here is “shoved me down”- I’m was not talking about mass accelerating, but my ability to resist a mass in motion- ergo, with a light lode, I resist the inconsiquential mass in motion and easyly slow my forward/downward progress; the larger mass drove me without pause into the earth, bringing my face rapidly in contact with concrete. I’v done the feather and lead shot in a vacume experiment. Thanx for the primer. I’ll try to be painfully explicit in my future descriptions so as not to leave the impression of local violations of Galileo Ordinaces.
What erks me is your attempts to de-thrown me as Chief Smart Ass (CSA). Please, my subjects, send your affermations that I am still firmly ensconced!
Christopher
Re: Going shopping with an Uni
When I go down to the local shops to pick up my dry-cleaning or just to get
some milk, I leave it outside cause its a pain in the arse to wheel around.
The shopkeepers know me now and ask me how its going everytime I go down
there! When I go to the gym, I just put a chain through the wheel right
outside reception and they keep an eye out for it.
Riding home with groceries in shopping bags is interesting, kinda helps with
balance, but youre arms get a good workout!
Leo
Sydney, Australia
“Oliver Zechlin” <oliverzechlin@msn.com> wrote in message
news:3c87e9bd.2030790@News.CIS.DFN.DE…
> Hi,
>
> Apparently some of you use a Uni to do some light backpack-style
> grocery shopping.
>
> This brings up the question: what to do once arrived at the store?
> Take it inside and prop it in the cart, lock it outside (how to keep
> it upright…)?
>
> “Not even owning an uni yet, but asking a whole lot of questions”, Oz
>
Re: Going shopping with an Uni
When I go down to the local shops to pick up my dry-cleaning or just to get
some milk, I leave it outside cause its a pain in the arse to wheel around.
The shopkeepers know me now and ask me how its going everytime I go down
there! When I go to the gym, I just put a chain through the wheel right
outside reception and they keep an eye out for it.
Riding home with groceries in shopping bags is interesting, kinda helps with
balance, but youre arms get a good workout!
Leo
Sydney, Australia
“Oliver Zechlin” <oliverzechlin@msn.com> wrote in message
news:3c87e9bd.2030790@News.CIS.DFN.DE…
> Hi,
>
> Apparently some of you use a Uni to do some light backpack-style
> grocery shopping.
>
> This brings up the question: what to do once arrived at the store?
> Take it inside and prop it in the cart, lock it outside (how to keep
> it upright…)?
>
> “Not even owning an uni yet, but asking a whole lot of questions”, Oz
>
Re: ?: Going shopping with an Uni
> island where the folks are good and it is safe. Also I’m very
> careful not to tell anyone that it’s worth over 1000 UKP so, like
> Harper said, what would someone do with it if they stole it? On trips
> Neil
It all depends where you are. One of my friends once saw my giraffe, which
I had left in the gym entrance for a few minutes. He said had he not known
that it was mine, he might have stolen it. Ok, I doubt he really would
have, but still, people steal stop signs too.
Of course, if you live in a small area, and you’ve got the reputation of
being “the unicycle guy” then even if the cycle is ever stolen, hopefully
it’ll eventually be returned to you.
You are right, though, unicycles often bring out the best in people, and
most folks are generally good in heart anyway.
jeff
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Re: ?: Going shopping with an Uni
On Fri, 08 Mar 2002 09:16:12 -0500, “David Stone” <dstone@packer.edu>
wrote:
>A neat experiment by Galileo Galilee several hundred years ago
>demonstrated that gravity is not affected by an object’s mass.
Strictly speaking, gravity is affected by an object’s mass. What
Galilei demonstrated is that light and heavy objects undergo the same
accelleration in a gravitational field if air resistance is
eliminated. Yes I know this is what you meant as it is relevant to the
case. I was just nitpicking.
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