Hey all, I’m making a flash movie intro for my club’s website.
I’ll post the movie when it’s completed, but due to the large-ish size of the movie, I will require one of those fancy ‘loading’ movies.
I would like to fill the void while loading with quotes. You know how in anticpation of an event or a movie, they’ll write
‘blah blah blah’ - Famous guy
very much like what we do in our sig lines.
I wonder if anybody has any really cool one(or 2)-liners that really embody the whole unicycling experience?
I’ll credit the quote with your name, or if you know of any already made up ones, I’ll give them the credit.
Thanks,
I’m looking for 4 or 5.
(Something that the novice person who may have stumbled onto my site (searching for ‘unicycling’ but maybe not all that interest (YET) may have their interest sparked with, not something like…profiles and gazzoloddi’s yeah, pedal grabs…)
You could do what Nick Brazzi did in his Moab video. An unrehearsed scene plays behind the end credits, as he walkes around the group of resting riders on the slickrock: “Where’s your other wheel?” he asks, to one person, then the next, then the next, and gets a different answer from each person. A wonderful piece of spontaneous unicyclist cleverness.
You could list a bunch of those, or just a bunch of the stupid questions people ask.
What sparked the original request is the poster I have up behind my compuet. it says,
‘Mountain biking is about adventure and the rediscovery of your childhood freedom. It removes you from the daily grind and puts you in an environment with endless posiblities - wildlife, epic views, a personal epiphany about what really matters, and tasting your endorphines after a long, hard climb. The reward is looking back at obstacles, that are now behind you, and feeling like anything’s possible.’ - Gary Klein
Treepotato has a good one on her avatar. It’s something like, “No brakes, no handles, no limits.”
I also like to say, “Hey look! A two wheeled unicycle!” When someone on a bike passes by.
Sendhair, thanks for switching to purple. It makes your posts much more readable!
I’ve seen lots of deer, wild turkey, all kinds of birds (even a few base jumpers in Auburn), and rattlesnakes. I consider myself a mountain biker, even though I almost never ride trails on a bike.
The original quote from the back of the 1998 MUni Weekend T-shirts was:
No gears
No brakes
No handlebars
No problem
Here’s another one:
Learning to ride a unicycle is 60% determination, 35% persistence (not giving up), and 5% sense of balance. – John Foss
Here’s a better version. I couldn’t remember my original version at the time (still can’t), but this cleans it up and fixes the numbers so they “look” better:
“Learning the unicycle takes 50% determination, 40% persistence, and 10% balance. Everybody has 10% balance.” – John Foss
(I tried to explain this concept to one of my friends, who wanted to know why on earth I needed to learn to ride a unicycle with only one foot. Alas, I didn’t have much sucess.)
…sorry.
