uni quotes..

General
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I like this one from The Simpsons, makes me want to try out my son’s guitar:

"If something is to hard to do, then its not worth doing. You just stick that guitar in the closet next to your shortwave radio, your karate outfit and your unicycle and well go inside and watch TV. --"Homer Simpson

Someone was using it as their sig line for awhile.

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Re: uni quotes…

Most quotes I have heard are the comments people hurl at me when I ride by
them.
Not all the witty or bright, just repeating comments. Such as, “What
happened to the other half of your bike?” or “Where did you learn to do
that?” I have my standard replies, “Don’t need the other half” and “Here in
Toronto”.

I think more fun that the quotes are the double takes people do when you
come rolling down the street. You know the kind of stares that keep you from
looking - when you should be looking. I have caused traffic accidents
because people have been watching me ride instead of watching traffic and
the traffic lights.

Am I mean to start laughing the moment they stop watching me? Ka-thunk!

The beauty of riding a unicycle is that the rider becomes one with the
wheel.
It is a delicate ballet that is like skating and flying and you are always
on the edge of failure as you ride the line of success.
Whether tis nobler in the minds of men to mount their unicycles standing or
running, to take arms against a sea of asphalt and gravity, and by opposing,
end them. That is the question.

But the more important question is are unicycles also considered
“wheelchairs” or are they “wheelseats”.

I am the gas, the steering and the brakes because I am a Unicyclist!

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> hey all,
> i was just wondering, does anyone have any cool unicycle related quotes
> or anything they wanna share? ive seen a few cool ones already on the
> bottom off pplz posts and it got me interested.
> thanks
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Re: Re: uni quotes…

I think I’d call it a “wheelstool”

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Hey,

Lauren is my girlfriend, and “lozza” is not Lauren… just to clear things up…

Anyway, a good quote is:

“It’s not an act, it’s a sport” Kris said that one, and I think it’s sweet. I’m going to put it on a shirt.

-Dylan

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My response to “where’s the other wheel” and all its variations is an incredulous “You mean ride two wheels at the same time? Man, I’m not that good!”

To the people who watched me learn and say to me, “Man, you’ve really improved,” I respond, “Yeah, improving was my secret plan all along.”

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Usually when I get a “where’s your other wheel” remark from someone on a bicycle, I reply with “I don’t need a training wheel, why don’t you get rid of your’s”

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LOL!!!

Thats awesome!!! I think i’ll have to use that next time someone says that to me :slight_smile:

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“Where there’s a wheel, there’s a way.”

Heard from a man on the street in Ann Arbor, Michigan in 1984.

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well, at the belle isle MUni day, we were talking to a guy and he asks us “so do ya’ll just ride trails or do you do extreme stuff?”

most of us stared incredulously, but someone answered “yeah”

oh yea, the one in my sig is cool too

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*quotations

“I live on the edge. Sometimes I fall off.” -Me, Steve Winterburn

That’s going at the end of my revised video. Look out for it in a couple weeks, or maybe even less… I’ll inform you all when I complete it. :slight_smile:

Also… “quote” is a verb. “Quotation” is the noun. :wink:

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Re: uni quotes…

These are all from r.s.u. and have been my sig at some time. The two
uncredited ones are my own (I think).

You are always on the edge of failure as you ride the line of success.

  • Defender of Enormous Manhood

If the crank is moving then it really sounds as if it’s loose. -
onewheeldave trying to pinpoint the cause of a clicking crank

I hope to be a 90 year old guy who rides his unicycle to the store for
whiskey and condoms. - J.D. Miller

Friends don’t let friends drop to flat - Kris Holm, discussing large
drops to flat ground.

I like things that are either curved or tapered. - Steve Howard

My butt has a crack in it , but I can still ride. - spyder

Grizzly bear droppings have bells in them and smell like pepper spray.

  • UniBrier

the helmet is to protect the brain, not replace it. - iunicycle

Ride carefully; 25% of the people in the world are caused by
accidents.

I go a sort of ok speed on my Coker… - Roger Davies

You can’t go wrong when you follow King Muni-Man! - Jason from Alaska

661, neighbourhood of the Beast

the real world and our little newsgroup/forum world are two different
things - John Foss on sex ratios

Klaas Bil - Newsgroup Addict

Today (30 December) is the last day this year that is not the last day this year.

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Defender of Enormous Manhood wrote:

“The beauty of riding a unicycle is that the rider becomes one with the
wheel.
It is a delicate ballet that is like skating and flying and you are always
on the edge of failure as you ride the line of success.
Whether tis nobler in the minds of men to mount their unicycles standing or
running, to take arms against a sea of asphalt and gravity, and by opposing,
end them.”

That was beautiful!!!

My favorite response to the “Where’s the other half of your bike?” question.

“My doctor told me to lose 15 pounds, fast! So I threw away half my bike!”

Did I make that up or steal it from someone, I don’t remember? --chirokid–

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here’s what i said to a guy who made me notice that:
“DUDE! YOU LOST YOUR OTHER WHEEL!”

“OH CRAP! You’re right! My dads gonna kill me!”

then I said under my breath (but loud enough so he could hear me)

“Genius”

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“I bet that I could ride that because I ride a scooter. They’re equally hard. Your unicycle is harder because you have a bigger wheel to worry about, but I have to worry about two wheels, even though they’re kinda small.”

  • kid at a skate park

“I keep falling forward because there’s no handlebars to stop me”

  • 8 year old kid I taught how to unicycle
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Uni quotes

Nothing concentrates the mind like learnng to ride a uni.

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One I adapted from the McGill women’s cross country team: “If unicycling were easy it’d be called ‘your mother’” :smiley:

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that just became my facebook status

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That one originated on the 1998 California Mountain Unicycle Weekend T-shirt. If you dig around you’ll find a discussion where I was looking for help on the last line. In the end, it came from my boss at Intel, a non-unicyclist but a professional technical writer. :slight_smile:

The last unicycle I bought has gears, brakes, a handlebar, and, potentially, more problems (more stuff to break). :smiley:

This thread would be a good place to collect the quotes that don’t fit in that other thread, the one about quotes from non-riders…

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A couple of my uni quotes I came up with for t-shirts: :sunglasses:

http://unicyclist.com/forums/showpost.php?p=1055674&postcount=1

(<<< Check out my post count…just one to go!)

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The beauty of riding a unicycle is that the rider becomes one with the
wheel.
It is a delicate ballet that is like skating and flying and you are always
on the edge of failure as you ride the line of success.
Whether tis nobler in the minds of men to mount their unicycles standing or
running, to take arms against a sea of asphalt and gravity, and by opposing,
end them.

Hahaha, that is totally awesome! I love this quote. Another good one is “We’re both one half on an entry” when asked if my brother and I were in a bike race. :slight_smile: