People, over and over again, keep calling my unicycle a tricycle. It baffles me. I can somewhat get not knowing what a unicycle is, at least by a child, but pretty much everybody knows or should know what a tricycle is.
Some guy told me I was pretty good at my tricycle. I asked him how many wheels does a tricycle have, he said three, gave me a funny look then it hit him.
I know this should be in rsu, but jc gets more average folk and more answers. Plus this is kind of dumb.
I searched.
I’ve heard it a few times, but only from little kids.
alota people ask me about it too i just say to them what you say basicly.
Ive heard it once from a littke kid who was in a swimming pool.
Ive heard called a unicorn quite a bit though.
I’ve heard tricycle a few times.
Next time i’ll probably get off and say: “Tricycle? Where?”
Or I don’t know, I need something more clever to say.
I get this all ove the time. Pretty much weekly from all ages.
I like asking them how wheel a tricycle has. Most of the time they give you an odd look, then they switch to that ‘Ohhh’.
Something really fun is when they say, “look! A unicycle!” I say, “It’s called a tricycle!”. If they’re smart they will usually be speechless.
I’ve even said it to a bunch of really tiny kids and they were like, “oooohh yeeaahhh… It’s a tricycle.” Maybe 40 years from now they’ll see a unicycle and become another stupid adult who thinks it’s a tricycle, causing another young unicyclist to get slightly annoyed.
Here too! Uni-bike, tricycle, mono-bike, etc etc. Some people don’t seem to get the concept that prefixing words with uni, bi, tri, quad is actually indicative of numbers.
i have only had one incident of my unicycle being called a tricycle and that was by a young kid.
I have riden in areas that are filled with bogans who just say “look at that dickhead’s weird bike”.
Though, i was in my lbs the other day and a kid saw my unicycle and said “mummy, that boy can juggle”. How he instantly knew i could juggle beats me. Maybe unicycling and juggling are more associated with each other than i thought.
hhmmmmmm.
Hah I think uni bike is really popular in Asia, pretty much everyone I ever met while I was out there called it that. Even back home a lot of the older Chinese people I know call it that.
I think it has to do with how they would translate it back into their language whatever that may be.
Similarly to how French people always say “close the lights”.
It would make sense for the Chinese to call it Uni Bike, since the Chinese for Unicycle is One-Bicycle
this is why they should still teach latin in schools
Have you looked? Maybe you’re riding a tricycle and just don’t know it.
What do you call that thing?
I have had a few people comment on my tricycle. More people call it a bike though.
I have had a surprising amount of people ask “What would you call that? It isn’t a unicycle anymore is it?”
I don’t know why people think it isn’t a unicycle anymore if it has a large wheel or a knobby tire. Maybe they know the word unicycle but associate it with the circus and are trying to think of another name for that non circusy thing you are riding.
this October I worked in public and lots called it a tricycle, bicycle, and unicorn
I’ve recently had several separate incidents of parents saying to their kids, “Look, it’s a cyclops!”
I actually gave them the benefit of the doubt and googled to make sure I wasn’t missing some pop culture reference. Apparently I wasn’t.
Yes. Stupid people are everywhere, and many of them insist on proving their stupidity to you.
Comments such as “look at that one-wheeled bicycle!” and “do a wheelie!” actually translate to “durrrrrrr”.
I have never heard it called a unicorn. I have heard tricycle a couple times but I am more likely to hear something like “Look! His bicycle only has one wheel”.
I like it when kids on bicycles want to race me. I tell them I will race but they have to ride on one wheel. I have not lost a race yet.
Uh no. It’s literally called the single wheel car. A bicycle would be translated as a foot-paddled car. So either way doesn’t make sense.
lol my friend told the one lunchlady that he rode a unicycle and she asked if it was the one with three wheels or one wheel.