Funniest thing someone has called your Onewheel?
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Got a docs note back from an appointment I had a month or so ago. Of course I rode to the appointment. Although utterly unrelated to my visit I guess the doc couldn't help but add it to the first part of his notes.
I think the shock was the 25km (15 miles) I rode to get to the appointment more than the actual board but "alarming looking surfboard hybrid" is the funniest thing I think I've had someone call my Onewheel.
Anyone else had some funny names given to their ride?
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@lia my nephew when he was 3,4 yrs old called it a "smartboard".
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My mother got in habit calling it "rull" ever since saw it and didn't let loose of it.
Whilst meaning a lot of things .. 'rull' is somewhat short derivation of word 'teerull' ... which in turn means road roller compactor in english.
I suppose the look of fenderless stock Vega MBM had something to do with it.
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@sirgu Road roller is something I can see, love the backstory if “Rull” leading to that. I’m going to call it that from now on!
@NotSure Smartboard is a new one, definitely prefer it to the usual “hoverboard”
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"Alarming Looking" is my favorite lol.
My family calls it "your electric thing", other people have called it "those things". No one has dubbed it anything special yet.
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@blkdout i rode 30 miles today. feet are sore!
someone shouted "back to the future" as i rode by.
"not far from it" i replied. 80's movies were the best movies.
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@lia I’ve had multiple people call it something funny. After a gnarly crash on my 4206 XR years ago that left me road rashed from head to toe, I had some employee at our local hardware store ask me if I took a fall on my “Powered Board.”
After biffing it on a curb I was trying to ride and landing on my hip and ribs, a guy who witnessed the accident told me a few days later he saw my crash on my “Mono-Board.”
An older lady asked what I was riding and I told her a “Onewheel” but she thought I said a “Wonder Wheel” and a gentlemen from Texas (insert accent) said it should’ve been named “Big Wheel.”
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@hanahsdax said in Funniest thing someone has called your Onewheel?:
I told her a “Onewheel” but she thought I said a “Wonder Wheel” and a gentlemen from Texas (insert accent) said it should’ve been named “Big Wheel.”
I laughed a little more at that than I should. Could hear the accent as I read it.
"Wonder Wheel" isn't that bad, wholesome but doesn't quite do the machine justice. -
@hanahsdax said in Funniest thing someone has called your Onewheel?:
An older lady asked what I was riding and I told her a “Onewheel” but she thought I said a “Wonder Wheel” and a gentlemen from Texas (insert accent) said it should’ve been named “Big Wheel.”
Those are all great product names!
XR's got what plants crave!
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@lia said in Funniest thing someone has called your Onewheel?:
definitely prefer it to the usual “hoverboard”
yeah, for some reason it really bugs me when people call it a hoverboard. other things people call it are a "scooter" (GAH), or unicycle, which i guess is technically correct, but still. at least a skateboard seems more right than not.
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@notsure -- I like the idea... "WonderBoard."
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@hanahsdax said in Funniest thing someone has called your Onewheel?:
“Big Wheel.”
I instantly think Lynyrd Skynyrd. 😀
Think I’ll have a bit of that next time I’m out… -
It wasn't called a funny name as such, but I had a great ride around a nearby cities vast park system at the weekend, and slowing to pass a couple they seemed particularly interested in it. The guy was agog and kept pointing at it saying, "but it's only got one wheel". 😁
