Thanks @gocup, that does look impressive and a nice challenge to go up without UPD’ing
After I was hit by a car the person that hit me said “I thought I had snapped your bike in two”
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Look at that. He only needs one wheel to have fun.
Was at the park the other day…
“I know some men that can do a lot of things, but unicycling is not one of them!”
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That’s funny. What would be a good card for a unicyclist?
Maybe something like:
No, I’m not missing a Wheel
I have several at home
It was not half price off
It’s not a result of my divorce settlement
I don’t work in a circus
You need to work on your jokes
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Actually, a unicycle often costs half the price of a bike of similar quality…
I found this video from from a few years ago when this guy rode in a large annual charty bike ride. 1 unicycle, 10,000 bikes. He came prepared…
I unicycled that same ride a few years later. It’s tough on a unicycle, kudos to him.
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I will be part of a 200k race in a few weeks, I should get something similar too…
Him: “That looks exhausting!”
Me: “Yeah, but it’s not (pause) 2-tiring” (Thanks @UniGeezer)
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Replying to myself! - in previous post I described the excitement of a class of kids taken to a hillside viewing platform at our national arboretum when I rode up the zigzag track. Today I went to that area again for a ride in a different area a bit further away, entering a road via a single track. Once again, I heard the cries of “unicycle” (a word that seems to carry some distance). Then I waved my arms and more cheers, then a shout of “fall down” so I staged a fake fall to the ground and got more cheers (!?). It seems like getting a bunch of kids in the open with a teacher brings out certain behaviors, with the kids competing with each other and enjoying the chance to misbehave slightly.
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A post on a local Facebook group. I was indeed the ‘random guy on a unicycle’. I actually said to him that he shouldn’t mention me, tell people you saw big cats, ghosts or the Loch Ness monster and they might believe you, tell them you saw a guy out for a night time unicycle ride in the woods and you will be met with scepticism!
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When I had knee surgery at 64, I took up juggling out of boredom. I liked it a lot and learned about 35 three and four-ball tricks. That put me in contact with other jugglers, a couple of whom unicycled. So at 66 when I retired I decided to try to unicycle. Just last week I tried for the first time to combine juggling and unicycling. Not as hard as I feared. After 3 days, I was practicing when three about 10-year-old boys rode by. One of them asked “Wow, are you a magician?” I think I can now die happy.
*reposting this in correct topic.
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somewhat related but funny, a kid saw me walking with my uni, asked if i could ride it, said “yah, just doing a walking lap” but got on and a did a quick take, “your aura is 1000 man”. lol.
*reposting this in correct topic (same)
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“Are you riding that around the world?”
I got called Ed Pratt in a roundabout way. Only riding it around my little corner of the world.
“Whoa. Look at that!”
Got that 3 times at 3 different exits riding passed a Wal-Mart, confirming it is indeed an echo chamber.
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I have been riding several times a week for the last year and a half. I have never heard the “where is your other wheel” question in Denmark. It’s just not a thing.
Can other riders in Denmark confirm this?
Comments are mostly “cool”, “wow” or “that looks difficult”.
To the latter I answer “that’s because it is”, or “it is certainly fun” or “that’s only because I’m not that good - yet.
All of which is true.
Father and daughter:
„A unicycle…“
„Mega fast!“
Three old people:
„That‘s a unicycle.“
„Yes, it is.“
„You gotta grip it well in order to not fall off of it.“
„Yeah, and most of all: remember not to pedal backwards when you start moving, or you‘ll find yourself on the ground.“
They weren’t joking. I was speechless.
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Sounds like they have freewheel uni experience.
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I doubt, since they continued how they would probably have “a hard time to get on that uni” and that they probably would fall. I quietly agreed with them.
„A Ferris wheel!“ - I gave the guy a thumbs up, since that‘s what I, too, sometimes refer the 36er to.
Because of a soccer match a street was closed and there were fences to guide the people on their way to the stadium. I spotted a passage and asked one of the cops standing there if I could (was allowed to) pass. „Yes, but watch your head, since you‘re sitting so high up there“ - the fences were connected by a steel rope at their top (but I‘m not tall, thus could pass without ducking my head.
Not really a quote, but I noticed once again how many people laugh when you pass them on a unicycle. Some decidedly laugh at you, but the vast majority smile.
Teen1: Whoa a unicycle
Teen2: #@$) you!
Somehow I found the teen that was psychologicaly scarred by a unicyclist at some point. Was a very random interaction since it was a really nice night too. 
bound to get negative reactions at some point. I just laughed it off internally at teen angst.
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