Quote of the day (from non-riders)

[bmemike]

I largely ride in the rather large parking lot around my apartment building - it's also shared by a bunch of other buildings, so it's pretty huge. I tend to do laps around an "island" (that has some trees, a flagpole, etc).

Everyone's always been very positive and seemed excited when I ride - which is cool.

Today I got two weird comments.

#1:
Girl: "Hey, are you going to be riding at Burning Man?"
Me: "Uh, I've actually never been to Burning Man."
Girl: "Oh, because I've seen pictures. They have like fleets of them there!"

Wierd... but not offensive in the least.

#2 - I was doing a bunch more laps and this car of people (from Rhode Island - about 1 hour south of where I'm at) pulled up behind me. I moved to the inside of the "island" to let them go around me and I turn to continue to go around it. The dude in the car honked at me and said "Nice bike asshole" and ended up driving a lap around the island and meandered through the parking lot and eventually left.

Ummm... right. I think he was just stupidly lost (and beyond ignorant) and decided to take it out on the first "target" he saw. Being my first negative comment so far, I'll roll with it. (no pun intended)

[joshuni]

the good
i was crossing over a road to get from the intermediate to the advanced trail at the local mtb trails and a man stopped his car about 20 feet from where i was going to cross the road. he screamed out "you're my hero" while i was crossing the street i just thought to myself, "wow, doesn't take much to impress him." but i apreciated the comment.
the bad
more recently, i was riding around NCSU and during a particulary dangerous section of traffic negotiation (crossing a road, but it warrents a more hardcore-sounding name during heavy traffic) a guy decides to come up right behind me, gun his engine rolling in neutral at like 20mph (fast as heck when the thing going 20 is 3 feet and closing) and lays on the horn. for a second i contemplated slamming the uni into the side of his car, the pedal would have pinstripped his rice rocket in a cool 5 stripe pattern.

[Wheel Rider]

I was riding in my neighborhood park yesterday. A man and his two kids were riding bicycles and we passed on the trail going in different directions. I thought the kids were girls until the man yells, "Hey, look Bubba, that man can only afford half a bicycle." Just goes to show, you can't judge children by the length of their hair. In fact all three of them looked sort of Harperesque.

[onewheelisbetter]

someone driving down the street said whats that called a unike? but she pronounced it eunuch, totally oblivious to what a eunuch was

[uni_noob]

i hate it all the locals say "is that hard?"

[wayde is a pirate]

tonight on the bike path I got:

"nice balance" and "cool".

I thought "nice balance" was funny. it came from a biker in sort of a your-cool-just-like-me way.

[unicyclepa]

a cople of weaks ago i got from good looking girls "unicycleing hot" "marey me" and when i was siting down next to my coker still with the stickers i got "can i ride your big one"

[monkeyman]

Originally Posted by unicyclepa

when i was siting down next to my coker still with the stickers i got "can i ride your big one"

hehe, that's good

[Ducttape]

One of my friend's brothers wanted to try my unicycle again today he said " I think I want a go at it again" so I said ok and he gets on and tries a couple of times and gets a few pedals in before falling and says "I hope you know this is really hard to do" I said "I know" and he said "Just making sure you aren't defying the laws of physics or anything." I thought it was funny at the time but I guess now that I think about it, it's not really very funny.

I got a bunch of comments from various groups of teenage girls on my way
to work this morning:

Girl 1: "You're so cool!"
Girl 2: "You're wicked!"
Me: *grin*
Girl 1 or 2, a couple of seconds after I passed them: "Will you marry me?"
Me: *laugh hard enough to risk losing balance*


Girl 3: "Wow!"
Girl 4: "Wow, I like your ... thing!"


Girl 5: "Hey, I like your bicycle"


--
Peter Haworth pmh@edison.ioppublishing.com
"I like how, in software, 'gracefully' means
not exploding and destroying everything."
-- galeub.comp.configure, 2003-04-29

[GILD]

Originally Posted by Peter Haworth

Girl 4: "Wow, I like your ... thing!"

Reminded me of the girl who told me she liked my wheelchair.

[U-Turn]

Originally Posted by Peter Haworth

I got a bunch of comments from various groups of teenage girls on my way
to work this morning:

Girl 1: "You're so cool!"
Girl 2: "You're wicked!"
Me: *grin*
Girl 1 or 2, a couple of seconds after I passed them: "Will you marry me?"
Me: *laugh hard enough to risk losing balance*


Girl 3: "Wow!"
Girl 4: "Wow, I like your ... thing!"


Girl 5: "Hey, I like your bicycle"

Enjoy it while it lasts...

[mark williamson]

I got a new one last weekend... instead of a "other wheel" comment, a guy crossing the road near me shouted:

"I bet you can't do that with two hands!!!"

Made me laugh :-)

[ice_cold_uni6]

*man in a truck large enough to restore his insecure manhood rolls up*
him-"yo! get a bike fool!"
me-"screw you!"
*throws large rock at truck, causing tailgate to fall off, and 2 large coolers fall out.*



ok, so those last 2 things didnt happen....

[iridemymuni]

i was riding my b*ke slowly past a girl about 14 years old, and two younger kids beside a shopping centre today.

14year old girl: "hey that's the guy that rides the one wheeled thingy"
kid: "nooo, that's not him"
me: "yeah it's me"
girl: "wow cool i told you hahahaha coool"

then as i was going away they kept laughing and saying how cool it was.