You should have overtaken him. You might have given him his “moment”, but you actually robbed him of a cool story he could tell. 
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Maybe but he might also feel embarrassed and I know what that is like. Obviously people smile and wave at me often with my unicycles, penny farthing, tallbikes, halfbikes, etc.
However, once I was cycling along and some teens waved at me and I waved and smiled back. Then I suddenly remembered that that day (unusually) I was on a normal bike. I looked over my shoulder and realised that they were actually waving to friends on the other side of the road and not me and now (since I waved back) they were laughing. I felt kinda dumb. 
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Haha I know the feeling! Being on a normal bike just changes everything and you don’t realize.
Actually, on my ride on my Coker yesterday where I got lost/confused, I passed a lot of groups of (tipsy) students at Nydalen. Most were cheering and telling that it was impressive, but at a chokepoint where I had to yell a lot to make them part one actually asked if she could try it. I was very focused on passing and didn’t want to stop, So I quickly sized her up and replied “You are to short.”. I often reply this to kids who ask the same when on my other unis.
This happened so fast, and I was really just relaying compact information, but she was really insulted. She yelled “How tall are you? 1.60??” after me. And I was gone down a slope before I realized what happened.
Sad really. I didn’t meen to insult her, and I am usually very happy whenever people ask me that, and often stop and encourage them. But yesterday I was just in the mood for riding. Ah well, next time.
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Kudos to your self-control. I don‘t think I would have had the strength to resist. Like when I once passed a guy on a racing / gravel bike (on a hill climb). I knew I was faster and I wanted him to know 
. But I didn‘t talk big, I just greeted him in the most casual way I was able (while my heart was throbbing of joy and pride 
).
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You mean: of joy, pride and 200bpm
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Of course
Out on the Bristol and Bath Railway Path with my son, on our 29ers, passed a couple on bikes going the other way.
Him: [something something] “do that next?”
Her (emphatically): “No!”
I may have LOLed a bit at her response .
I thought of getting this OneWheel at some point. They look like cool toys, but like all EUC’s they are not allowed on the road here. I don’t want the police to take it away. My EUC was 2400 EUR and OneWheels are about the same price. Maybe I should visit Norway to ride around a bit.
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Did you order a batch? 
To bad I always ride with a backpack…
I’m too cheap to buy more than one!
And that is a good thing, cos your newly ordered T shirt has a spelling error
…and that error is actually not even an error. 
I noticed. I’ll fix it if Ruari wants another one (or cancel the order). The meaning is almost the same though
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Actually, since it is a direct quote from a forum, why not keep the error
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I’m sticking with what I ordered. When I make a mistake, I own it. 
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@ruari will get in great shape for sure. He’s allready dying to show that t-shirt back to everyone in front of him
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“Step aside, a b!cycle is approaching! …almost a b!cycle.”
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I was maneuvering through a small kids’ festival, pushing my muni through the crowd (no way to ride there without running people over), when a clown of all people shouted after me: “Hey, did you lose a wheel?”
So apparently unicyclists must be prepared to be heckled even by a clown with the most cliché unicycle joke ever 
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Proof that unicyclists are not clowns
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