these two road biker guys in full spanex were sitting on the side of the road changing a tire and they were clearly trying to be like the "cooL guys’
so of course they have to ask me…where is your other wheel
I just told them i took off my training wheel cause having a second wheel was for girls.
and this girl with them started laughing and they got really embarrassed.
Not sure if it was because they couldnt change their tire or because the girl was laughing at them. it was funny all the same
Kids in a daycare today sayd…" My grandma’s better than you!"
My friend replyed, “Oh! Id love to meet her!”
“The man said ‘look dear, a penny farthing’…i just smiled and thought to myself 'yeah, thats right, a penny farthing…”
It’s really irritating to me, but when I do a search on Ebay for unicycles, invariably there’s several pictures or figurines with penny-farthings which the ignorant sellers have called unicycles. Guess they figure that little wheel doesn’t count.
I got some great responses from skaters today. They thought it was amazing, took loads of photos and one of them learnt to pedal 3 rotations in 5 minutes (I guess the balance transfers over). It’s not a quote as such but it was a good response.
Forrest Ranger, We were told to bring you in for riding before the trail opened.
They had grand opening of a trail in Hyde Park NY today. My being a few minutes early and the only person on a unicycle (or a bicycle), I didn’t feel like being a spectacle at the ribbon cutting so I sneaked around the ribbon and was the first one on the trail. Had it to myself. Turns out the opening ceremony was delayed so much that I made the trip to the end and back, arriving just as the first crowd were starting to hike.
Luckily, the Ranger’s were amused and just joking with me.
Had TONS of comments today too many to remember really, lots of impressed people talked to us and asked us to show some stuff to them. One shy little boy with his parents asked me and Phil(catinabag1) to show him some tricks “Hi… ummm can you umm… show us… ummm how ummm you umm ride umm those and umm show some tricks please?” it was sooo cute haha. Me and Phil were riding this one wall and a whole photography class came up to us and asked if they could take pictures for their class. that was cool I ended up doing a few unispins and wheelwalking and stuff I even rode most of the skinney with photography students heads and expensive cameras inches from my head I also fell crotch first into a really point stabby bush that was on one side of the bush. Then we were at another place outside a dumpy apartment complex playing on a set of parking barriers and a planter box type thing that was falling apart and some guy came by to go into his apartment and he said “it’s about time someone put this crap to good use.” and another guy was heading into his apartment and We were riding and he said “what if you did some sort of backside 180 and then rode off it?” Then I did it and he said “Man that was the Scariest yet coolest thing I’ve seen all day, I was really hung over until that point.” and he went inside. After that a guy came up and started videoing us on his cell phone to send to his sister in another state. Then we went to PGE park and rode and a guy who was probably high and drunk came up to us and said “F*** unicycling man, take up skateboarding and alcohol abuse and you’ll be happy… Well maybe not but yeah forget unicycling man, skateboarding and alcohol.” Phil was laughing and he got in Phil’s face and said “What it was good advice man.” As he walked away he said something about unicycling that we didn’t hear but it was funny.
lol I did a few for the photography class.
What are ninja spins and backside 180’s?
ninja spins are just my style of unispins lol My left(or right depending on the launch) foot just comes straight up and the other leg extends all the way out and the ‘backside 180’ was just his way of saying riding forward and 180ing the gap… look up backside 180 ollie on youtube.
Cycling along the canal towpath during lunch break, a lovely, sunny day. Ahead, a bench is set back from the path, and a couple is sitting on it. It looked as if it was a “first kiss” moment, both droopy eyed, he was bending over her, poised to stick his tongue down her throat. She spotted me from the corner of her eye and burst into a very un-ladylike belly laugh. He looked distraught.
A beautiful moment spoilt for them 
Hahaha
That is awesome!
“You must have lost a bet.” - one of many on today’s 109 mile El Tour De Tucson
Out where I ride with the road bikers on Pacific Coast Highway over here, people are impressively intelligent about how we ride our road unis!
I hear people say “you need a bigger gear!” as they pass me when I’m already spinning out in 54" mode, and I hear them say, “damn, no freewheel, that’s gotta be tough…”
Sometimes when I shift, people ask me how many gears I have, where I got the hub, and how it can shiftable while still being fixed. I then tell them that, yeah, only about 300ish of these exist, and only maybe 70 as beefy as this one, and they’re all built by this awesome Swiss German guy named Florian Schlumpf, and that if we could have a freewheel, we’d all be running some form of those Rohloff 14-speed bike hubs. So far, nobody’s gotten that we shift with our heels, but when I tell them, I don’t get any double-takes. They just seem to understand! And most people who comment on my hub notice that it’s geared before they ever see me actually use it.
The coach we all go to for help and advice has seen me ride on the back of our spin group, and the first thing he said was that I needed longer cranks and a higher gear ratio. He seemed to instantly know that the reason I was running short (i.e. 150mm instead of 175) cranks is because I didn’t have a big enough gear. He said that if I keep consistently riding above 120RPM on 150mm cranks, I should pay attention to any weird pain, because going outside of that 80-100 RPM range for too long is asking for leg trouble. I didn’t mention to him that, before gears, we’d cruise along at 150-180 RPM on 100mm cranks… 
One guy even said “wow, hydraulic brakes! you better be leaning back hard to use those…” I then proceeded to respond with a kind of holy-crap-I-can’t-believe-you-just-said-something-that-awesome expression, and said he nailed it!
I’ve also heard, “jeez, this wind must be hurting you a hell of a lot more than it’s hurting me…,” which is, for the most part, true, but what it also does is make the pack ride slower so that, even though I have to put in more power than they do, I can do it at a slower RPM because I’m stuck at 54". So if it’s REALLY headwindy and I’m all sugared up, it’s easier to keep up by relying on power instead of spin. (no matter how little actual power a 24mph spin may require due to draft or tailwind or whatnot, we just can’t sustain a 24mph spin on a 54" gear ratio with sensible cranks for very long a time.)
Pretty much every time I go out, I w00t inside due to the ability of the roadies on PCH to just kind of know enough about cycling and physics to understand what pushing around a geared 36 entails.
On my way back from Tucson, I sat next to a fit looking guy who was reading some literature we got at the expo for El Tour De Tucson. Figuring that he was a rider, I started a conversation. He was in the top 1% of finishers, beat by 31 people. I was in the bottom 1%, beating 26 people. Often I imagine this would be a polite but short conversation. Given that we were each at the top of our respective games, though, it was a great conversation among athletes.
It was a great bridging moment. Not particularly quotable, but worth sharing.
Sounds like other than the tire incedent you had an awesome time on the ride.
Awesome time all around. The tire bit was a part of the grand adventure.
But yes. I had a good ride. Would I have chosen some things to go differently? Sure. But it was all a part of the adventure. There are a lot of stories to tell from the day, but I did 111:11:1 with a 100:10:1 on the way.
wow, once again I’m impressed. I think your tire/tube problems might have something to do with running it over recommended PSI and possibly a shifted rim strip or sharp spot in the rim. I don’t think the flying helped either. How’d the 36’er fair on the trip home? I’m still afraid of uni transport in airplanes.
For it to be a problem with running over the recommended pressure, I would have to be running over the recommended pressure. I was not and never have. I blame the piece-o-sh*t tire that had been nothing but troubles in the 6 months I had it, but I suppose that a more likely culprit than the one you suggest (probability zero) is that the tube was to blame. Oh, I got that from you 
Max made some awesome crates for our unis. One would be hard pressed to do them damage within the usual range of baggage handling abuse. That said, I don’t know how it fared on the way home. It’s still in the crate in my car.
Oh, I didn’t know you didn’t run it over recommended pressure. I guess I assumed it since it seems quite a few people do. That’s cool about the crates, I wouldn’t blame the tube either because it wasn’t just problems with tubes I gave you haha.
I did a grind and some kid went mad and exclaimed wildly: “AND HE NAILED IT!!! 
!!! !!! !!!”
something tells me that I think he might have been quite impressed.