strangest thing ever happened to you?

[SAVAGE]

...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.":cool: 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!!:D !

so what R YOUR stangest experinces???

[jagur]

getting pulled over and searched by the cops with J. Childs at night on our way to the Pub.

[leo_h]

Falling flat on my face down some hill just after some chav guy yell out 'whooah! that is brrrrrraap man!' as he was taking a piss lol.

leo

[forrestunifreak]

Riley? Is that Manon1wheel?

[Uniman_3]

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..

[dudewithasock]

I balanced on one wheel once while I was out riding. It was weird.

[tambourineman10]

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.

[Keldridge]

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... :)

Keld

[parky07]

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

[dan de man]

^Lucky guy good thing he didnt persue you^

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

[SAVAGE]

Riley? Is that Manon1wheel?
i dunno it may be a riley but i don't think its riley wiklund

[oneisenough]

I balanced on one wheel once while I was out riding. It was weird.
haha me too

[Poseidon]

^Lucky guy good thing he didnt persue you^

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

"Freaked" is spelled wrong there...

On Topic-

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.

Cheers-
Poseidon

[Uniman_3]

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...

[Hazmat]

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. :confused: :confused: But under no circumstances should anyone else try it. :mad:

Moral is: Don't drink and drive. :D

[johnfoss]

she was like..this is a 75thousand dollar fountain....
there is no way its a 75thousand dollar fountain..maybe 10thousand..

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..
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...

[johnfoss]

she was like..this is a 75thousand dollar fountain....
there is no way its a 75thousand dollar fountain..maybe 10thousand..

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..
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.

[tomblackwood]

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 (http://www.cascade.org/EandR/chilly/index.cfm).

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.

[drumstuck]

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...

[1WHEELTAMZY]

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:)

[Into the blue]

"UP YOUR BUM"

You need to make that into a t-shirt to wear when you ride.

[1-wheeled-grape]

Err... strangest thing would have to be why I decided to do a 5ft drop to concrete when I could barely do 3ft at the time. No wonder I stacked it.

Actually finding this forum... thats strange. This place can be a little weird at times lol.

[knighty]

actually finding this forum... Thats strange. This place can be a little weird at times lol.

+1

[Biggestbtc]

Due to my chronological brevity on the wheel, I have a limited database of unusual experience to pull from. However, I did have a slightly random snowball fight today on my unicycle with two kids and their dad, none of whom I have ever met.

Also, yesterday, as I was rapidly pedaling by on my 20", a fellow asked me how you change gears. I just shrugged. The fellow, once I was passed, voiced his own answer to the predicament, "Drink a Red Bull maybe." For once, someone actually had some good idea to give to a unicyclist.;)

[skrobo]

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.

happens to me all the time, but there are 5 people who ride at my campus. (Texas A&M Kingsville)

[knighty]

well today i had a weird thing happen i was riding with my skateboard freinds and some suss looking old guy came up and started watching me and making weird faces when i looked at him(it looked like he was blowing kisses).eventully he came up to me from the behind grab my shoulder and start mumbling something in my ear,it scared the crap out of me all my freinds were joking about it.about 4 hours later my freinds left becuase it started raining,i was unicycling when i turned around and the guy was behind me watching me again.i was scared and he watched me for another 20 minutes he then came over and said does that seat feel good between your legs,i just bailed into a shop it freaked me out so bad.
weirdest pedo experince i have had.

[1-wheeled-grape]

unicycles make good weapons, pedoes hate pedals... remember that.

[knighty]

good advice ,that there would make quite the sig i might do it.

[unirox13]

i was unicycling and juggling in a local park a while ago and had drawn a rather large crowd of young kids who were watching me and asking questions and the like. a police officer came over and asked me to come with him. i asked why and he leaned in a said softly that he wanted me to cooperate so he didn't have to put me in handcuffs in front of the crowd. i was freaking out, but obliged. i packed all of my stuff up and told the kids that i had to go. they dispersed and i followed the officer. when i got to his car he had me put all of my stuff down and then hand cuffed me and put me nto his car while saying "you aren't under arrest, but i just want to detain you so you don't leave. i still i had no idea what was going on so i asked him what i was being detained for and he replied; "i think you know." to which i said; "no, i have no idea". he said; "i suspect you of being a pedophile, and i want to check your record because if you're a convicted sex offender you're going to jail for violation parole". i at this point i became very very angry because i knew that i wasn't a pedophile or sex offender, but i kept my cool. he took my info, and came back about fifteen minutes and said that i was free to go but that he was watching me. i wrote down his badge number and got him suspended indefinitely from the force.

[Fooby]

Wow, I have never had any confrontations from the police, not even when I rode past a couple without my helmet.

[explosionsq]

My Weirdest Experience:
I was walking down the street when I saw this guy(13-14 years old) talking to these two girls about unicycling. I walked up to them and started talking to them, and eventually asked if I could try his unicycle. He had this pathetic little Jugglebug uni but I managed to pull off some pretty basic tricks. This kid was pretty impressed though. He asked me to teach him, and I was impressed by how fast he was learning. 5-10 minutes later he was consistently landing hops and spins. I told him about my unicycle collection, and how my unicycles were much stronger than his. I told him to buy a torker, because those were the best beginner trials cycles at the time.


....Wait......

[Rezinha]

i was unicycling and juggling in a local park a while ago and had drawn a rather large crowd of young kids who were watching me and asking questions and the like. a police officer came over and asked me to come with him. i asked why and he leaned in a said softly that he wanted me to cooperate so he didn't have to put me in handcuffs in front of the crowd. i was freaking out, but obliged. i packed all of my stuff up and told the kids that i had to go. they dispersed and i followed the officer. when i got to his car he had me put all of my stuff down and then hand cuffed me and put me nto his car while saying "you aren't under arrest, but i just want to detain you so you don't leave. i still i had no idea what was going on so i asked him what i was being detained for and he replied; "i think you know." to which i said; "no, i have no idea". he said; "i suspect you of being a pedophile, and i want to check your record because if you're a convicted sex offender you're going to jail for violation parole". i at this point i became very very angry because i knew that i wasn't a pedophile or sex offender, but i kept my cool. he took my info, and came back about fifteen minutes and said that i was free to go but that he was watching me. i wrote down his badge number and got him suspended indefinitely from the force.


:eek:

[skrobo]

wow... all the pedo stuff... that's rediculous.

weirdest thing that ever happened to me was... i broke something expensive ("glue" was still wet... did not look that way... I don't want to go into more detail) on campus right in front of a Cop (i didn't see... i normally won't jump in front of police, especially on campus) and he just drove right by in his car. what i broke is all fixed up and you can't even tell now tho :)

that was a lucky day...