…while on a unicycle ride? post them for all of us to see!
my wierdest experience: i was talkin w/ 2 girls on the street about unicycling and this dude about my age (13-14) comes up and starts talkin w/ us. he asks if he can try my unicycle (about 6 people had asked me this that day) so i let him try it. he started doing all these cool tricks on my pathetic little Jugglebug uni. i was impressed, he told me his name was riley wiklund. i had never seen anyone do tricks(i had only been riding for 2 months) on a uni so i asked him to teach me some. 5-10 minutes later, i was doing hops and spins easy. Riley told me he had unicycles at his place with “big ass tires” and said “dude, go online, look up torker unicycles, and get one, trust me, you’ll be doing tricks like me one of these in no time.” so i rode off thinking about this. when i got home, i went strait 2 the computer and looked up torkers. about 3 months later i got my torker lx and now I CAN DO ALL THE TRIX RILEY COULD!! !
this big fat guy and some skinny dude talked to us about unicycling and trials and everything, then they asked us to look them up on youtube and myspace…
it was kinda creepy…
I was riding back to my dorm on campus and some grad student stopped me, asking DUDE are you THE unicyclist?
While I idled in front of him I replied that well… I was A unicyclist…
Finally he burst out, I’ve HEARD of you!!
Apparently no one else rides in my area.
I went for about a 5 mile ride from my house one night. I live on a somewhat busy street, and always try to take side streets and cut through parks and dirt roads when I can, but at night I am kinda stuck on the busy roads.
I am on my way back, and a police man asks me to stop. He asks what I was doing? I said I was out for a ride… He said that he knew that, but what was I doing? I had to have a light to ride at night by law, and here I was without even a reflector.
I politely showed him the reflecters I had on my pedals, and explained to him that I lived just down the street… I agreed that I should have a light of some kind, but I just didn’t ride at night much… He started telling me about all the drunk drivers going too fast, and how he at first thought that I was some kid that often gets in trouble who rides a bike… and he was gonna bust him.
He let me go… and then not 30 seconds later pulled over a car for speeding…
And I had some of the best light of any part of my trip with all the police car lights and stuff on the side of the road…
I was rideing my uni down the street and a guy asked me to get in the car and ride his wheel…I jumped off, grabbed a rock and threw it at his windshield…it bounce off but made a nice shatter/crack and he drove away really fast…this was by far the wierdest thing that has ever happened to me
i was doing sum night riding and i looked at the moon during a rest ,and it was in a cresent shape and it was RED and it was setting INCEREBLIY FAST like seriously about one centimetre every 30 seconds
also once i made a post and it didnt have spelling errors ,freeked me out
I was riding in the park that I always ride through. A man driving by saw me and slammed on his breaks with great conviction and yelled out his window “Where’s the other wheel!?!?”
I chimed in with a “Half the bike, twice the fun! One wheel is all you need!”
Then he just laughed, and said “See you later!” and drove off.
I know this is pretty common, the “Where’s the other wheel” comment, is the most unorigional. But, it was the first I had recieved! And it’s not normal for a guy in a car to SLAM on his breaks like that.
well this wasnt strange it was retarted…
AWWP (angry white woman of pueblo) came and yelled at my lil bro for riding on a fountain…she pulled her car over and came out and yelled at him…
she was like…this is a 75thousand dollar fountain…
there is no way its a 75thousand dollar fountain…maybe 10thousand…
and she was like…dont u guys have a park to ride at…and then she said…do you know how much work that was to put in…
me and my friend were laughing cuse we knew a bunch of immigrants put it in and she wasnt even there when they put it in…
she was soo stupid and very strange acting…i thinks she was pmsing…
Well i once had Ouzo and black sambouka running through my system and when cops pull you over to give you a breathalyzer test. It comes up with nothing. Maybe it’s cause i have a strong immune system. But under no circumstances should anyone else try it.
Amazing. So how much was it? Did you look it up or should we rely on your expertise about public fountains? And those immigrants. Were they donating this fountain to the city or were they maybe hired to do the installation of a fountain that wasn’t theirs? Maybe that lady hired them, or was on the committee to decorate that area.
If your brother left any marks, any chips, tire tracks, etc., he should stay the hell off the fountain. You guys can start riding on it when you find those “immigrants” and get their permission because it’s obviously theirs.
Sheesh. And if I threw a rock every time I got propositioned by someone in a car… sticks and stones, you know?
End rant.
Here’s a strange one. Playing unicycle basketball on a public court in New York’s central park, with Luciano Pavarotti doing a live concert in the background. That is an odd juxtaposition of soundtrack for a unicycle basketball game…
Amazing. So how much was it? Did you look it up or should we rely on your expertise about public fountains? And those immigrants. Were they donating this fountain to the city or were they maybe hired to do the installation of a fountain that wasn’t theirs? Maybe that lady hired them, or was on the committee to decorate that area.
If your brother left any marks, any chips, tire tracks, etc., he should stay the hell off the fountain. You guys can start riding on it when you find those “immigrants” and get their permission because it’s obviously theirs.
Sheesh. And if I threw a rock every time I got propositioned by someone in a car… sticks and stones, you know?
End rant.
Here’s a strange one. Playing unicycle basketball on a public court in New York’s central park, with Luciano Pavarotti doing a live concert in the background. That is an odd juxtaposition of soundtrack for a unicycle basketball game! The courts were next to the Great Lawn, where lots of free concerts are given. The stage was across the field, but pointed in our general direction so the sound was plenty loud and clear.
Today was cold for Seattle, just above freezing with a light snow falling. Cold enough to see your breath, and a good day to test our various cold weather clothing in prep for this February’s Chilly Hilly.
But on to the strange part. I was winding up my ride, and decided to take a short detour to work in one final hill before heading home to a hot shower. It 's a reasonably steep hill in the midst of a thickly settled suburban housing development, and one of these hills that has a marked crest, then heads right back down the other side, so when you’re climbing, you can’t see anything up ahead until right when it comes over the crest. So I’m working my way up it, when all of a sudden–a couple hundred yards ahead at the most–a horse comes barreling over the crest of the hill and down towards me at a full gallop, all saddled up but no rider in the saddle. For a second I think I’m seeing things. How can there not be a rider? But I barely have time to think about how weird this is, because the first thing I notice is he’s not really keeping to his side of the road, but running pretty much right down the middle. The second thing I notice is that it’s cold enough I can see the steam coming out of his mouth and nostrils from his breathing. I’m climbing, so barely moving; he’s decending at full speed. I get ready to bail to the sidewalk if he crosses into my lane.
Just then another horse comes galloping over the crest of the hill, this one being spurred on for all it’s worth by a young girl in the saddle. She yells to he “Please help me! He’ll get killed if he runs into the road!” (there’s a heavily trafficed cross-street at the bottom of the hill). In the split second it takes me to realize I have no idea how to stop a galloping horse with my unicycle, he’s past me. A few seconds later, she’s past me too.
This is why I don’t think horses should be allowed on the road.
Imagine you invented a new vehicle weighing about a ton, which when working perfectly normally exhibits the following characteristics:
Sometimes when you press the brake nothing happens. Sometimes when you press the brake, the accelerator comes on. And stays on. And the brakes stop working. And the steering may swap, so right is now left and left is now right. Or may not work at all. Also, the seat is actually an ejector seat and you may be thrown from the vehicle which is not fitted with a throttle return mechanism, nor any kind of dead man’s handle. Instead it is fitted with an auto-pilot controlled by irrational fear and instinct. This may steer the machine into the path of other vehicles it encounters.
Now imagine proudly presenting your new contraption at the local testing facility to get it certificated for road use…
Ok i was riding somewhere but i forget where it is well anyway like a guy (aged 40-50) said wheres your other wheel but like a thousand other people said that to me in the same day. I was supposed to say it in my mind but i accidently shouted"UP YOUR BUM" then he said “what” then i said “shit” and rode off as fast as i could. I thought he was going to chase me:)
so i rode off thinking about this. when i got home, i went strait 2 the computer and looked up torkers. about 3 months later i got my torker lx and now I CAN DO ALL THE TRIX RILEY COULD!!
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