I know it’s been used numerous times but when I used this one today the delivery was perfect and the response to it was worth a million.
I was standing to the side of the trail while a group of mountain bikers (about 8) approached. The rider leader popped off with a “You lost your other wheel” and I replied with a rather tired “Man, I just got rid of the training wheel guys.”
“BURN!”
“OWNED!”
“DUDE!”
“WOW!”
and “Man he was so ready for you!”
Were the immediate responses from his comrades. Priceless. I’ll treasure that memory. ^^
This one isn’t from today. Actually it’s from quite a while ago. I was riding in Huntington Beach with my dad and I had my dalmation on a leash. We passed under the pier and I heard a teenager yell, “HOLY S**T!” I could hear in is voice that he was going to say something else.
I wasn’t disappointed. The next thing he said was, “I thought dalmations were extinct!”
He sounded like a stoner. It was by far the funniest comment I’ve ever heard.
NOt from today but from a few days ago and from yesterday. It had been snowin a bit and my mom wouldn’t let me coker to school the first few days and I had gotten on the bus to go home and a large man sat down next to me and asked if I was missing anything… like a unicycle I told him that I was and that if I had it I’d be almost home by now but my mom wouldn’t let me ride that day and he said he had been talking to a lady at the bus stop and said “it feels like we’re missing something” and she had replied “yeah that crazy kid on the unicycle.” and a few days ago he won a bet with the same lady who said “it’s too cold out today I bet you that kid doesn’t ride by this morning” and sure enough I rode by… he won $5. Then Yesterday I was cokering home in snow and ice with my slick TA tire and a cop drove up the road I thought I was going to get scolded for not having a helmet but he turned on his megaphone on his car and said “that takes talent.” it took a bit for that to register and for me to figure out what he said and a few seconds later he drove up next to me and turned on his megaphone repeating the comment over his megaphone and giving me a thumbs up before continuing on his way.
Just starting my ride at the botanical garden, when I see a mt biker ahead of me. I said to myself, ‘‘If I catch him; it will be on the 1st hill’’. (I’m thinking he would poop out and start walking it.) He made it, but not fast. I caught him on the 3rd hill. I said," You can’t let a unicycle beat you’‘.
he said,’‘that’s insulting’’
I said, ‘’ you got me on the down hill’’
he said,‘‘yeah but you will catch me’’
I never saw him again after the 4th hill as he took off ahead of me. He slipped off the trail somewhere because you come back the same way and I went all the way to the end.
I also ride a recumbent bicycle, a lounge chair with two wheels. We get the same kind of WTF reactions when we go by. My wife loves riding behind me and seeing all the reactions I get.
I’ve noticed quite a bit over the last few years that a recumbent towing a trailer or trailerbike gets more comments than a unicycle (and invariably positive).
No way! You’re in Alfred?
I was there from 2000-2004 studying with Glenn Zweygardt and Fred Tschida.
Unfortunately I was not uni-ing then… I bought my first one and started riding shortly after graduating.
Alfred would be an excellent place for riding… especially hitting some of the dirt backroads for some muni.
Back OT, the last real ride I was on, my brother and I were stopped and leaning against our unis while deciding how to set up some more video shots, slightly concealing them. This guy and his wife walk by on the trail and look at us and say hello. A few feet past us, the guy slams on his “brakes,” turns around with a WTF?! look on his face and says, “What the HELL are you guys riding?!” We were so shocked by the absurdity and incredulousness of his reaction that the best either of us could muster was, “Uhhh… unicycles?”
Cycling along in the dark the other evening I cycled past a couple coming out of a house (looking absolutely ridiculous with my helmet light on and lit up like a christmas tree)
The man turned to the woman and said in a deadpan conversational way “You see all sorts of things in Prestatyn”.
I drunk lady said “Can i have a go?”
I said “yes”
She said “Can you do it wearing a skirt?” (cause she was wearing a skirt)
I said " I don’t know, i’ve never tried"
… sort of funny?
I’m a male, so “obviously” I would never wear a skirt! Just explaining the joke.. cause it wouldn’t be funny if i were a girl.. umm.. yeah.. Unicycle!
Kids on bikes riding on the path under the boardwalk at the beach i’m staying at “is he riding a tricycle?” “I thought bikes weren’t allowed up there.”
a family at the end of the boardwalk watching from their car as I did some simple idling still stands 180 twists and backwards riding while waiting for my family to catch up. “you make it look so easy” by this time my mom had caught up “he’s got years of practice.” I just laughed.
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