Did a 30k MTB race at Stellenbosch South Africa, running through wine vineyards yesterday.
Many comments, some notable.
Johnny (WOFT on forum) was ahead of me on his 29’‘, me on my 36’'.
A route marshall telling another as I pass:
“Oh there it is!” and starts laughing.
Took a while to work out, but Johnny must have replied to the marshall’s “where’s the other wheel”- question with the “behind me” response.
Ater the race, one cyclist commenting on his buddy saying there were two unicyclists doing the race: “What! were there more than one nut on a wheel?”
Had a good laugh.
Another anecdote from the day:
Towards the end, I was riding next
to this cyclist…
Cyclist “So why ride a unicycle when you can ride a bike”
Me: "That’s like asking a surfer ‘why surf if you can ride in a boat?’ "
Cyclist: “Okay. Now I get it”
Haha! Ja, that was my standard response for most people yesterday. I tried counting how many “where is the other wheel” jokes I got, but stopped after the 7th. That was before the race actually started!
A lot of people ask me if it hurts to ride. I guess people don’t realize that you sit on your butt to ride. I usually reply with something like “It used to until I got some calluses.”
watching a street performer on a unicycle ,he fell off and some teenagers mocking him ,
he said oi! i dont go into mcdonalds and talk when your trying to work ,it was very funny
I was doing some Urban Assault in Downtown Orlando when I was stopped by a gentleman outside one of the numerous bars. We spoke briefly about unicycles and he mentioned that he owned the bar we were standing in front of. He invited us and picked up the tab for the whole night.
This week was pretty good for comments. I got hit on by a Jamba Juice girl who was pretty dang cute, a large group of riders I was in got called fagots by a wanna be white gangster in his beater car, lots of people wondered why so many unicyclists were around town and I got to explain about nationals, and Yesterday while pushing my nearly 80 pound suitcase through the airport a lady commented on how heavy my suitcase must be and I told her about the fact I was coming back from a national competition with 3 unicycles in the bag and placed 4th in one of my events and she said “Pushing that suitcase must be the easy part then! I can’t imagine riding one of those unicycles, Congratulations!”
Trying to get my legs going on a gentle trail through the trees in Swinley forest. I stopped to let a cyclist out with his dog ride by the other (downhill) way. As he passed me he said “now I feel totally inferior”.
Not heard that one before but made me smile.
The week before two girls were jogging down the path towards me. Both gave me a hard stare and looked really miserable. I got a smile though from my comment of “hey smile, you don’t have to ride this thing”
i was out on a nice coker ride this morning, and stopped at a wawa to get a drink. A women and here young child was walking by and she said, “hey matt look at that huge bike” and the kid said, “mom thats a unicycle not a bike” and a just smiled, and said you got a smart kid there
I went to a bike shop today to get some spacers for my Muni. That’s how it was.
Him: What kind of cranks ore those spacers for?
Me: Unicycle cranks.
Him: What?!
Me: unicycle cranks, I need spacers for my Mountain unicycle.
Him: What?! Mountain unicycle!
me: Well, yeah, I’m doing DH on it.
Him: [left to go tell that to the other guy in the shop]
him: This guy is insane! He does unicycle Downhill!!
After he told me that he heard of me from some of his Bike friend:p that means people are talking about me! it’s cool, I’m sure I’m gonna get Famous
Me and my freinds were standing on top of some electric boxes, spying out a sick line down and some lady goes
“Are you going to jump off that?!?”
We replied “Uh, ya”
She said " OMG please dont do that! Does your mother kno you do this!?!
I bet not because no mother would approve of that crazy activity!"
To this I replied “My mother does this stuff to” (My mom doesnt but it was a good way to get her to go away)
To this she mumbled something and walked away
Another time a kid came up and said “How do ride that?” To this i replied, pointing at his feet “How do ride those?”
While riding down a popular local mtb trail I was approaching two guys pushing their DH bikes up and one says “oh, I heard about this guy, but I thought it was just some b.s. legend”. I’ve always been a legend in my mind, but now apparently I’m a legend where I ride.
The comment was a new one, i’d never heard anyone say this buntil today.
while riding down the sidewalk today going to another street spot a gentleman walking past looks at me for a moment and then say “Keep on practicing, you’ll be able to ride 2 wheels one day.”
i didn’t have a response, i just smiled and continued riding. lol
A couple of friendly gawking mtn. bikers at the local trailhead, one of them says “No suspension on that?” I said “yeah, my nutsack.” Big laughs as I rode by. Funny thing is, it was actually true for my first 6 mos. of learning. Good thing I already had kids.:o
Great response
it’s cool, I’m sure I’m gonna get Famous