Not so much a quote just an interesting interaction. I cycled out to a coffee and food place in the woods around Oslo. It is not really accessible via car (Vangen hytte for any Norwegians here who might know it). You need to walk or cycle there. As I was leaving this older guy (probably late 70s) was just arriving with a friend and he saw me with the unicycle wheeling the unicycle to the path, so I could get going. He stopped in front of me, and actually blocked my way (not intentionally I don’t think). He said nothing… just stared at me for about 5 seconds. Eventually I needed to move on so I said, “Yes, I cycled here on this 
”. Then he suddenly smiled and let me past.
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The other day I was practicing standing wheel walk and this guy said “I can do that while juggling”, to which I responded “I’m trying to do that! Gotta learn juggling while wheel walking first though!”
Hi all, I have made a few changes to my unicycle rider simulation which I linked to in a previous post, and added a few questions and answers (108 now!). They pop up in when the CHAT button is tapped in the simulation (in a random order without repeats).
I have extracted and pasted the questions and answers below too, as they are all definitely “on topic” (and mostly lifted from this topic). If anyone has any extras to suggest, just reply to this post and (after due diligence and censorship and editing), I will edit the list to include them (and also add them to the simulation).
WHAT NON-UNICYCLISTS SAY TO US (and some answers)
[ pasted from https://flight.projectcomputing.com/v/uniqa.txt ]
[ see also https://flight.projectcomputing.com/v/unicycle_simulation.svg ]
001.“Hey - a one wheeled tricycle!”
“..or a wheelbarrow??”,
“..it’s a onesie”,
“..it’s a TRY cycle!”,
002.“Wow, a unicorn!”
“..sort of.”,
003.“Hey - a penny farthing!”
“..nah, just a penny.”,
004.“Hey - a one wheeler!”
“..oh, you’re very observant!”,
005.“Hey - you lost something!”
“..lost my patience.”,
“..lost my marbles.”,
“..lost my training wheel.”,
006.“Hey - a bike!”
“..you’re half right!”,
007.“Huh - where’s the seat?”
“..Vlad stole it!”,
008.“Why?”
“..so I can use my hands.”,
“..why not?”,
“..I hate bicycle handlebars.”,
“..because two is too easy.”,
009.“hey, no hands!”
“..I’ve got hands,\n I’m waving them!”,
010.“Do a bunny hop!”
“..where’s the bunny?”,
011.“Can you do a trick?”
“..isn’t this tricky enough?”,
“..I would rather get a treat.”,
012.“Can you juggle while riding?”
“..I can chew gum!”,
013.“Where’s your other wheel?”
“..I haven’t heard that one before.”,
“..on my other unicycle!”,
“..I don’t want training wheels!”,
“..It was too heavy!”,
“..on layby”,
“..Budget cuts!”,
“..50% discount\n (didn’t read the fine print).”,
“..What other wheel?”,
“..I need all-wheel-drive.”,
“..I’ll put it on after I learn this”,
“..half the bike, twice the rider!”,
“..Reducing my carbon footprint!”,
014.“Where’s your other half?”
“..at home.”,
015.“Whaat? you nearly made me crash!”
“..I know the feeling.”,
016.“\u{1f632}”
“\u{1f60f}”,
017.“You’re missing a wheel!”
“..you’re missing the fun!”,
“..I don’t miss it at all.”,
“..huh, its still there?”,
“..front or back?”,
“..I didn’t lose one, I found one.”,
“..I’m trying to be invisible.”,
“..my bicycle has evolved!”,
“..One of us is innumerate!”,
018.“Still looking for the other wheel?”
“..yes, until I’m two tyred”,
019.“Half bike?”
“..half baked!”,
020.“You need another wheel!”
“..yep, no such thing as\n too many unicycles!”,
“..front or back?”,
021.“Das zweites rad ist weg.”
“..Ja, natürlich!”,
022.“two wheels are faster!”
“..but one is more fun!”,
023.“good work!”
“..No, this is just play!”,
024.“Do a wheelie!”
“..Front or back wheel?”,
“..I’m practicing”,
“..Huh?”,
025.“The circus is in town!”
“..Yes, I’m running away from it”,
“..Yeah, the clown stole\n my other wheel!”,
“..Sure is - I just heard\n a talking monkey!”,
026.“You look ready for the circus!”
“..no, clowns scare me!”,
027.“Are you a clown?”
“..no, but if I was,\n I could afford a 2nd wheel.”,
028.“How do you ride that?”
“..with my feet”,
“..carefully”,
“..I’m just faking it!”,
“..like this.”,
“..one revolution at a time!”,
“..It’s as easy as\n falling off a log!”,
“..practise, practise, practise..”,
029.“How do you dismount?”
“..with the help of gravity!”,
“..It’s as easy as falling off a log!”,
030.“Do you ride that thing?”
“..no, it’s impossible!”,
“..only when my magic carpet fails.”,
031.“How can I get one?”
“..web search for unicycle.com.”,
032.“why?”
“..it’s fun.”,
“..why not?”,
“..two wheels is too easy!”,
033.“This on that, here, now?!”
“..Yes, yes, yes, yes!”,
034.“Well balanced!”
“..err, I failed accounting 101.”,
“..yeah 50% good, 50% bad!”,
035.“You don’t see that every day!”
“..I do.”,
036.“That looks hard!”
“..yes, but it’s also simple.”,
“..no, gravity does the work!”,
037.“Is that easy?”
“..it’s as easy as it looks!”,
“..easy to do, hard to learn.”,
038.“I can do that!”
“..show me!”,
039.“SHOW-OFF!”
“..who, me?”,
“..it comes naturally.”,
040.“You’re brave!”
“..or foolish?”,
041.“That’s bad ass!”
“..no, not yet,\n maybe after another 20km.”,
“..I’m just doing a\n haemorrhoid ad.”,
042.“How far do you ride that thing?”
“..until I fall off.”,
043.“Get an electric unicycle!”
“..that’s shocking!”,
044.“How’s the weather up there?”
“..unsettled!”,
045.“You’re multi-talented!”
“..no, I’m uni-talented.”,
046.“Are you real?”
“..I hope so!”,
047.“You must be mad!”
“..the best compliment today!”,
048.“I can’t do that!”
“..I thought that myself once.”,
049.“That must be hard on the nuts!”
“..they’re my shock absorbers!”,
“..I tighten them regularly.”,
“..it’s a gentle massage.”,
050.“Is that good for your core?”
“..my gut feeling is ‘yes’.”,
“..hmm, but it can be bad the skin.”,
“..a plank is better.”
051.“Are you a kamakazi?”
“..only in times of war.”,
052.“Don’t fall off!”
“..oh, that’s a good idea!”,
053.“I saw you fall!”
“..no, an ‘unplanned dismount’”,
054.“You need practice!”
“..what do you think I’m doing?”,
055.“Can I push you?!”
“..use the NUDGE button.”,
056.“Hmm, less rolling resistance!”
“..but less falling resistance!”,
057.“That’s an impressive cadence!”
“..sadly, I have no choice.”,
058.“I guess you save on tyre wear?”
“..no, it wears out twice as fast!”,
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Here’s a question that a current AI model might ask us:
I got these 5 suggestions using a web based AI tool based on a google model called BERT, which I had found, and given the following hint:
Unicyclists are often asked: “where is your other <mask>?”
This AI tool is happy to complete the sentence in the following ways:
where is your other bicycle? (probability 0.143)
where is your other bike? (probability 0.114)
where is your other car? (probability 0.049)
where is your other gear? (probability 0.018)
where is your other passion? (probability 0.016)
I think this shows that unicycling is a minority activity which is not well represented in the very large training corpuses used by such models!
Or maybe it shows that “AI” is overrated?
[ the tool is at https://huggingface-widgets.netlify.app/ (look for “Fill-Mask”) ]
AU - Artificial Unintelligence. A child would already know that when you’re into unicycling, there is no other passion.
( I never knew that that is what the first to letters in Australia stood for ) 
Kids do come up with some good quotes, yesterday I heard “it’s a one wheel scooter”. I guess he knew he couldn’t call it a bike.
BTW, I think the first two letters for Australia is OZ…
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@gockie and I did the Spring Cycle ride today, the only time you can ride anything, even a unicycle, over the Sydney Harbour Bridge. 1000’s of bikes, families, kids, lycra. One kid saw us and said to his Dad “there is only one wheel”. Dad said “they’ll have to do the ride twice”.
So nice to hear original and funny quotes.
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Classic dad joke 
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I’m gonna have to add that one to the dad-a-base.
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Meeting a group of 10 years old kids…
boy: - Look at that! The guy has got only one wheel !
girl (unimpressed): - So what?
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Yeah, it would have been way more impressive if you had none
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Two men walking together and while looking at me riding one says to the other, “can you ride that?” The response, “yes, there is one in the gym”.
(Hint, as in the stationary exercise bikes)
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Haha. He just bit off more than he can chew.
I meet a couple of “old” ladies at a junction. They just though it was “fresh of me”. When walking the unicycle people really want to talk.
But I don’t think I have ever had someone being mad at me. Have you?
Of course, some look at me in amazement or like I’m stupid for doing something this silly, but never angry.
I’m curious about the meaning of “fresh” in this context.
My dictionary mentions that Leftpondians use it to mean cheeky. Is that the meaning here?
Yeah, im not surprised you are confused - its not the correct use of the word in english.
We say in Danish someone is “fresh” when they have a surplus of energy e.i. get up early or take initiative.
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A couple of times in many years when riding on the sidewalk… 
And one time when I didn’t stop at a small road intersection. I should have.
Also, the guy was driving his car way higher than the area speed limit. I would have had way enough time to cross the road if he was following the speed limit.
Ah, that makes a lot more sense, thanks.
I think I might have gone with “overenthusiastic”, if I understand the context correctly. I can’t think of anything better off the top of my head.
enthusiastic is the right word, but not overenthusiastic.
It’s a positive remark. In layman’s terms «nice going, dude!»
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that was what I was thinking when you chose the word fresh. Danes always think something like that “er friskt”, though I had forgotten you are Danish, but I don’t know what that has to do with angry peeps
Yes, Dutchies don’t know that unicycles don’t follow the same laws as bikes and when I ride on a foot path, which I am required to by law, peds get angry. Ignorance is not bliss in such cases.