This weekend at a campout I got the usual “Lost a wheel” from one of the campers. This time I had a good response though: “No, I’m too old for training wheels”. Last picture of the post in the other thread is right after this exchange. Hence the big smile 
When I’m at b*ke events with my muni, the usal answer for this is: “No, I’m just saving weight, this way its much cheaper than carbon fiber…”
Whilst most questions I get are about how I manage not to fall off, last week an guy asked first how I manage not to crush my balls …
“I got one of those for Christmas but I must have put it together wrong. It just falls over when I try to get on.”
Rode down a cycle path today, down the hill halfway through it. A group of people all wearing camouflage gear walked past (I think they were army cadets, we have a cadets place nearby) And one of them shouting YOU’RE MISSING A WHEEL. I instantly came back with “Nice camouflage, for a second I didn’t see you there!” I wonder if he gets that as often as I get the wheel comment…
Haha i like that one! Good work mate!
I had an interesting one today, a guy drove past and said is that a 29inch wheel! ? I was on a 36er
I passed and said 36!!! Wooooohoooo…
He replied “thats insane man never seen that…” I replied “you have now ;)”
I do not get the “missing wheel” thing much anymore from others… Just get “wow! Or wtf?” And “that thing is huge!” On the 36er
Its a Real buzz the 36ers when out and about 
Haha that last quote, with the crushing balls, i get that the most actually… Apart from your missing a wheel…
Now i just laugh at people. . . I see some people regulary who say the same thing to me…
I said the other day to some guy who always says "your missing a wheel… " that your missing your originality…
I’ve never used this but here’s an idea. Reply back in a stoned Tommy Chong voice, “Where’s your other wheel, man?”
Genius!! I WILL use that one.
It doesn’t even matter what the other person is riding or if he’s riding anything at all. He could be walking or sitting. I laugh when I imagine Tommy Chong saying it. I can’t imitate him well enough to pull it off with the proper effect.
I recall a That 70s Show episode where Tommy’s character was being questioned by Canadian mounties, and every question they would ask him he would ask them right back with a “man” on the end of it. It was hilarious, but I can’t deliver it the way he did.
I didn’t say this one but I thought it would be hilarious
Douchebag: “Your missing a wheel”
You: “Your missing a chromosome”
I went for a walk yesterday. Nothing much, just a couple of miles around local footpaths.
As I was nearing home, a chap with a metal detector (to whom I had not said, “Find any bombs, mate?” or “You can vacuum my carpet too if you like, mate,” or “That’s a quiet strimmer, mate!”) suddenly asked, “Have you lost your dog, mate?”
I don’t have a dog. His question was clearly based on the assumption that anyone walking must have a dog. It seems that we unicyclists are no alone in receiving these “You’ve lost a putative asset” comments.
If you can’t beat 'em, join 'em:
I’ve recently taken to asking bicyclists “Hey, what’s the other wheel for?”
Problem is, there’s lots of bicyclists around.
I think it is just adding fuel to the fire to make unsolicited or unprovoked comments to members of other groups. I imagine that it irritates them just as much as “Where’s your other wheel?” irritates me.
However, now and again, a bicyclist will comment to me, “That looks hard,” and I will sometimes reply, “That looks complicated.”
From a novice inline skater
Slightly different…
I was in my local park today when I passed a 40 something novice inline skater (roller blades?).
He commented “Wow, that looks hard work. And I thought it was difficult enough to balance on these”.
The same thing happened to me a couple of weeks ago, to which I replied: “What are you complaining about, you have 8 wheels to keep your balance!”
I like that, I saw a guy on a three wheeled recumbent and I said, “Hey, I found your other wheel” He got a chuckle out of it, I cracked myself up.
Odd, a guy on a three wheeled recumbent told me he had my other wheel.
I thought it was rather clever coming from a non-unicyclist, but maybe that sort of comment happens more often than I thought.
A beautiful juxtaposition of images on my commute in today. I was riding around Green Lake in Seattle which has an asphalt path around the lake separated into two lanes. One of the lanes is for foot traffic only and the other is for wheeled traffic only. Standing next to the wheels-only lane was a woman wearing a shirt with bold print “DARWIN” and small print “animal food.” Standing next to her, directly in the middle of the wheels-only lane, was the guy she was talking to, paying no attention whatsoever to what was going on around him.
natural selection:p