Jean eRide.ie Community Posted October 27, 2018 Share Posted October 27, 2018 8 hours ago, Ziiten said: I was riding behind a woman on bicycle and she turns her head and asks how fast does that thing go. I say 45 km/h. Pretty fast, she replies. After a while she turns her head again and says "That's a good mid body workout". I guess she referred to the balancing effort and the use of core muscles. I've been told the same, "core body workout", I always say, not really, it is like standing, but look, i'm not sure to be honest. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stephen Posted October 27, 2018 Share Posted October 27, 2018 4 minutes ago, Jean Dublin said: I've been told the same, "core body workout", I always say, not really, it is like standing, but look, i'm not sure to be honest. if you go off road it really is a work out tbh I've done many off road and felt it in the morning on legs, calves,core etc?? 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post RockyTop Posted October 27, 2018 Popular Post Share Posted October 27, 2018 I guess the dumbest thing anyone ever said was " Are you riding that thing right now?" I said, No I was riding it earlier. You are just seeing me now. It stays balanced by warping time. I got a puzzled look as a reply. I know that - Are you riding that thing right now? - translates to- I can't believe my eyes. I tend to take things too literal. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tymerTHEcheezGUY Posted October 28, 2018 Share Posted October 28, 2018 Worst: a group of guys watched me riding towards them, but from across the street, for what was easily a block. Clearly curious. Necks craned, all eyes on, the works. But waited until I was half a block passed them to scream "GET THE F**K BACK HERE! I WANNA SEE THAT F***ING THING!!" And some various other expletives after I only gave the barest of glances over my shoulder and speed off at 20 mph. Just COMPLETELY uncalled for. I'd have been happy to stop and talk/show it off if there had been some civility and courtesy in the request.... Best: loads of that's awesome/cool/crazy or any others to the that extent. Just this evening I was called over by about the most polite kid on the last leg of my ride going through the college campus. "Sorry, but what is that thing, sir? (I'm only 35 and get constantly carded at liquor stores, come on! Lol)." "If I could ask what is that? Would you mind if I try it, sorry for asking." I let him try and held him up so he could get a feel for it. Gave him name of the wheel, prices, all that good stuff. Even pointed him towards ewheels.com. Hopefully have another wheeler out there soon! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carl Svanfelt Posted October 28, 2018 Share Posted October 28, 2018 There were three drunk men sitting on a park bench when I rode by (in the city of Kotka, Finland). They looked at each other, then looked at the whiskey bottle and started laughing loudly . Next the bottle went a round again and they seemed to be happy with the liquid. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Unventor Posted October 28, 2018 Popular Post Share Posted October 28, 2018 (edited) i had a funny remark a few weeks back. just when I bought my MC jacket and MC pullover trousers. It is not notthing I have not had before, it was more like hos it played out. I just bought these MC things, kept them on as I rode out of the shop to the amusement og the shopstaff. The after a few hundres meters or km I am at the town center/walksing streed that they are reconstructing so I had to start trolleying. These two elderly drunken ladies, not far from liquor store, passes me as they do one of them stops and started one-eye eyeballing me, like a pirate (she had 2 eyes, just squinting one of them) and asks: "Are you an alien?” short pause then leaning forward, putting her head close to me and kind of whispering...”you know from outer space?" then she breaks out in laughter and her buddy start half grinning half giggling. I kind of pulled back a little, straiten my back as I do. Then I leaned back in, squinting her back in best pirate style as I can muster...."Nope”.....the magical pause...kind of whispering...”I am from Denmark" then breaking out into my usual big fat grin as I usually have when riding my KS18L. (To those that are not from around here, Swedes view Danes as being oddly at times) The result was priceless...they stopped laughing both of them just a sec, then jaw dropped, then laughing even harder. One of them so hard she had to hit her legs santa laughter style. Now needless to say this kind of spread to like 10-15 people around us due to the pathway on the town centre is so narrow and many people doing after work shopping. This is how I looked (had my visor up), you even slightly see my grin behind the face cover. . Edited October 28, 2018 by Unventor 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FlyboyEUC Posted October 28, 2018 Share Posted October 28, 2018 The dumbest one I got was, "that's pretty cool but it still looks silly, I'm sorry." 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dingfelder Posted October 28, 2018 Share Posted October 28, 2018 That person didn't realize that's part of the joy of it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unventor Posted October 28, 2018 Share Posted October 28, 2018 1 hour ago, Flyboy10 said: The dumbest one I got was, "that's pretty cool but it still looks silly, I'm sorry." Some people are just priceless Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dingfelder Posted October 30, 2018 Share Posted October 30, 2018 On 10/28/2018 at 4:11 PM, Unventor said: Some people are just priceless Because who would pay for THAT? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maxkan Posted October 31, 2018 Share Posted October 31, 2018 Most often: "How much is that thing?" Pretty often: "Is it hard to ride?" Most silly: "Chariot" Best: Couple of kids on bikes noticed me approaching on a EUC. One of them said to the others, pointing at me "Look, that's silly" Then, 5 sec later, same guy: "...Maybe not that silly..." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
winterwheel Posted October 31, 2018 Share Posted October 31, 2018 (edited) Heard today: "That thing is lit man! I mean it actually is! It has a light on it." Edited October 31, 2018 by winterwheel Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
5Cauac Posted September 7, 2021 Share Posted September 7, 2021 OK, I've heard of Robo Duck, Gizmo Duck, Power Ranger, Robo Cop, Storm Trooper and Iron Man but yesterday was a new one for me. I was at a park where there happened to be an Indian family having a party/get together of some sort, when all of a sudden I hear some kids saying " Whoa!! He looks like a Bollywood Super Hero!!" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
..... Posted September 7, 2021 Share Posted September 7, 2021 "Awesome" And they were right, as I totally am! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GothamMike Posted September 8, 2021 Share Posted September 8, 2021 Cop, everyone thinks I’m a cop. The yellow vest and flip up helmet? robocop is something else I’ve been called. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
..... Posted September 8, 2021 Share Posted September 8, 2021 12 minutes ago, GothamMike said: Cop, everyone thinks I’m a cop. The yellow vest and flip up helmet? robocop is something else I’ve been called. use the blinking lights on the front of the sherm and start issuing tickets! If i were mistaken for a cop on a regular basis, I would be changing outfits pretty fast. Can I offer you a darling little pink tutu thats gently used? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Menace Posted September 8, 2021 Share Posted September 8, 2021 (edited) My mom calls me "the wheel", partly as a joke. A well known loser at my school once called me a dirty word that starts with f and ends with t and rhymes with not. That was when I was on my slower wheel and he was in a car with a bunch of friends. Interestingly enough he didn't say anything later when I bumped into him on the sidewalk with none of his friends around, probably jealous and insecure... A lot of people just say "cool", "wow", "that's sick", or they just gape. Once a little kid (probably like 5 or 6) in a parking lot told his mom "mom, I want an electric suitcase too", that made my day. He clearly wasn't making fun of it, that was just what he described it as. On a slightly different note, a kid my age once thought I could just recharge the RS with a powerbank (like the ones you use for phones) , I don't blame him but it was kind of funny. Edited September 8, 2021 by Menace 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rcgldr Posted September 8, 2021 Share Posted September 8, 2021 On 1/31/2016 at 6:19 PM, davek said: 'U2 pilot' is a good name. Although it's a tail dragger, he has to land on it's single main gear. U2 needs to get main gear about 2 feet above the runway, then stall and land tail gear first. A person in a chase car calls out how high the main gear is, since the late 1950's, a crude sort of radar altimeter: If the U2 is stalled with the main gear more than 3 feet above runway, damage will occur. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
5Cauac Posted September 8, 2021 Share Posted September 8, 2021 I've also been told "Uh....we are not the Droids you are looking for" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
5Cauac Posted September 8, 2021 Share Posted September 8, 2021 1 hour ago, Menace said: "mom, I want an electric suitcase too" That's awesome. That would have made my day too. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GothamMike Posted September 8, 2021 Share Posted September 8, 2021 17 hours ago, ShanesPlanet said: use the blinking lights on the front of the sherm and start issuing tickets! If i were mistaken for a cop on a regular basis, I would be changing outfits pretty fast. Can I offer you a darling little pink tutu thats gently used? The Yellow vest is likely key. I saw an SUV hit a pedestrian the other day, so the vest stays. I wear LEDs on my wrists (red to the back, white to the front) I'm a bit color coordinated with black BMX pads, black shin guards, black tactical boots, and a black helmet. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KNZ Posted September 8, 2021 Share Posted September 8, 2021 I’ve been called crazy a few times. I’ll gladly take that label 👍🏾 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rcgldr Posted September 9, 2021 Share Posted September 9, 2021 (edited) "BC's Quest For Tires - wheel guy" - I felt a bit like the game, went on a bike trail where I had to duck under a couple of low hanging tree leaves over the trail. At least they weren't branches waiting to clothesline some unsuspecting rider. Edited September 9, 2021 by rcgldr Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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