Wow, that is cool, yours was a great day.
I was riding down the hill to get a the lift again and a guy asked me “Do you ride downhill with that?!”, I answered “yeah(?)”. I was a bit confused, I just came back from the trail it should be obvious that I ride downhill with my unicycle.
My friend and I were riding our unis at a local park when some kids approached us and asked us, “Man, how do you ride them crazy bikes?”
We cracked up laughing and I responded with my usual answer. “I sit on it and pedal.”
Wha! I say the same thing to kids when they ask me that, or I just say I just dont fall off of it because it’s hard to ride when you fall all the time:p
As I was Cokering in the woods I met a MTBer who said:
“we obviously are fans of different trademarks!”
We have aquired a ghost page.
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”
Just had to share those.
I was out with Gadge today when I heard from a kid of about 4 years old : “They’re not bicycles; they’re wheels.”
Bright kid.
Sounds like he goes to the same school as the kid that I met on Saturday (see above :))
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.”
HAHAHAHAHA !!!
Great response
Great analogy.
So, how is my home town of sunny Stellenbosch?
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!”
It’s alive!!?!
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
Something like that. ![]()