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11-05-18, 07:38 PM
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Hey people are into whacky stuff...go the positive route and just take it as a win...hahahaha.
11-05-18, 07:39 PM
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11-05-18, 08:05 PM
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"Hey, Eddy" shouted by another cyclist as a Rottweiler came charging across a farmyard as we passed.
11-05-18, 08:22 PM
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11-06-18, 08:17 AM
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Didn't happen to me, but a friend I used to work with who was just commuting on his bike. Going home, on a dorky bike, wearing completely normal/dorky non-cycling clothes, standing on the sidewalk at a light waiting for it to change - some lady in an SUV driving by slowly, yells "Hey, F you, buddy" for no reason whatsoever. Bewildering - you just can't do anything but laugh in that situation.
11-06-18, 01:51 PM
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My pavement bike was in the shop, so when I wanted to go for a ride on the rail trail I used my mtb.
Saw an older rider, maybe 70, stopped along the trail adjusting his seat. As I went by he said in a perfectly conversational voice 'Flat bars rule."
I looked back and he was looking the other way, still messing with his bike. Got a laugh out of that.
Saw an older rider, maybe 70, stopped along the trail adjusting his seat. As I went by he said in a perfectly conversational voice 'Flat bars rule."
I looked back and he was looking the other way, still messing with his bike. Got a laugh out of that.
11-06-18, 06:33 PM
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I live in Whitetrash-ville so when people see someone on a cheap mountain bike they just assume the rider got too many DUIs or are just too poor to afford a car. I think my milk crate pannier and cargo shorts kinda complete the look.
11-06-18, 07:47 PM
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I had an SUV roll down the window and offer me a ride during a not-too-bad thunderstorm commute home. Not really funny I guess, but chatting waiting for the light it turned out they were taking their puppy out for a ride to listen to some cool jazz and learn not to fear the thunder. Best I've got, and after @Phil_gretz it ain't much. Classic!
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11-07-18, 08:09 AM
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I had an SUV roll down the window and offer me a ride during a not-too-bad thunderstorm commute home. Not really funny I guess, but chatting waiting for the light it turned out they were taking their puppy out for a ride to listen to some cool jazz and learn not to fear the thunder. Best I've got, and after @Phil_gretz it ain't much. Classic!
Seriously, I've had some really nice chats with drivers at intersections. I always try to remember that when somebody else screams nasties at me.
11-08-18, 12:10 AM
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On the one day I forgot my helmet, I had two incidents. Mind you, I was about 65 years old at the time with white/gray hair and due for my semi-annual haircut - it was pretty long. First, a carload of high school girls drove by and yelled “Nice hair!” Of course, I was gasping pretty much, so I just waved. A little bit later at a stop light, a little girl, maybe five years old, says to me out of her car window, “Hey mister, I really like your hair.” And then I got a haircut.
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11-08-18, 09:39 AM
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One hot Summer day during my commute home from work, a carload of teenaged boys yelled some butthed remarks about: Geezers, Gray hair and bicycles. I caught up at a red light and spent the long wait chatting with a pretty, young, blonde in the Porsche just in front of their car. They grew quiet, then gave me a "thumbs up" as we left. Guess they didn't figure out, she was a co-worker Don
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11-08-18, 12:52 PM
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One time around dusk, I had not yet switched my daytime blinking light to steady. Pulling up to a light, these two teenage guys were like, "Oh, thank goodness! We got freaked out by the light and thought you were a cop!"
I've gotten the usual "Hey Lance" and "Aren't you afraid you're going to DIE". The ones that are simultaneously the worst, saddest, and funniest are those that contain slurs that are derogatory either to men with a specific sexual orientation or racial/ethnic groups to which I do not belong. (I happen to be white, and a woman.)
I've gotten the usual "Hey Lance" and "Aren't you afraid you're going to DIE". The ones that are simultaneously the worst, saddest, and funniest are those that contain slurs that are derogatory either to men with a specific sexual orientation or racial/ethnic groups to which I do not belong. (I happen to be white, and a woman.)
11-09-18, 06:16 PM
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For the first time ever, someone yelled something out of an SUV that made me laugh. I started my ride this morning when it was just under 40 degrees with a 10 mph headwind, so I was wearing thin sweat pants with cargo shorts over them, full finger gloves, and a rather unattractive jersey/jacket over a long sleeve t shirt. My appearance was definitely function over form.
So, this guy in a SUV going the other way yells out his window at my gray-haired weirdly dressed self "Hey, sexy!". I know it's an insult, but it's just a really good one in the context, so I kind of cracked up.
So, my question is this: Has anyone else had something funny yelled at them while riding? Please no stories about the umpteenth time someone yelled" get off the road" or your witty response to that. Up to now, everything that has ever been yelled at me has been idiotic, so I want to know if there's more than one guy who's actually good at it.
So, this guy in a SUV going the other way yells out his window at my gray-haired weirdly dressed self "Hey, sexy!". I know it's an insult, but it's just a really good one in the context, so I kind of cracked up.
So, my question is this: Has anyone else had something funny yelled at them while riding? Please no stories about the umpteenth time someone yelled" get off the road" or your witty response to that. Up to now, everything that has ever been yelled at me has been idiotic, so I want to know if there's more than one guy who's actually good at it.
11-09-18, 07:06 PM
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Years ago, I was riding after dark, heading out from a small town on a dark country road, with my new, bright headlights and taillight. Got a "Hey, E.T. !!" from some teens on a front porch.
11-09-18, 08:21 PM
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If you're going to go from thread to thread to insult me, I sure hope you can do better than that. Maybe you could spend your time more constructively by starting a gofundme to buy yourself a set of pedals.
11-09-18, 08:33 PM
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I just want you to know that I totally blame you for the sudden Reese's Pieces craving I'm experiencing.
11-10-18, 10:50 AM
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A couple of months ago I had just done some repair work and maintenance on my vintage roadster, including nice looking tyres and a good clean. When I passed a sidewalk cafe shouted he wanted to buy it. I answered that it would be too expensive. It used to be easily confused here for an ordinary old bike, so after all the work I appreciated the recognition.
11-10-18, 01:04 PM
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Back in the 90's I was a "rock n' roller" with long hair down to my buttocks. I also enjoyed cycling, admitted it was a weird combination of sorts.
With my hair typically in a ponytail while riding, I'd get the occasional whistle from male passers by thinking I was of the female sorts.
But the funniest was when a pickup full of guys were coming uo from behind me in a little but of one lane traffic and one guy was being all stupid whistling and saying stuff like "hey baby" and "I can show you what a real man looks like". As they passed by me all his friends died laughing when they saw I was a guy and to make it even better they had to stop in a line of traffic at a 4 way stop and as I rolled past them I coulnt help but ask the guy... "There was sonething you wanted to show me?"
His friends again busted out in laughter again and kept rubbing on him and he just turned beet red and started to get mad...
It was quite funny. Certainly memorable.
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With my hair typically in a ponytail while riding, I'd get the occasional whistle from male passers by thinking I was of the female sorts.
But the funniest was when a pickup full of guys were coming uo from behind me in a little but of one lane traffic and one guy was being all stupid whistling and saying stuff like "hey baby" and "I can show you what a real man looks like". As they passed by me all his friends died laughing when they saw I was a guy and to make it even better they had to stop in a line of traffic at a 4 way stop and as I rolled past them I coulnt help but ask the guy... "There was sonething you wanted to show me?"
His friends again busted out in laughter again and kept rubbing on him and he just turned beet red and started to get mad...
It was quite funny. Certainly memorable.
-Sean
11-10-18, 05:16 PM
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A friend of mine was biking through a rough neighborhood, on a road bike, dressed in road bike clothes.... and someone yelled out "Pedal faster, Lance!"
11-10-18, 09:43 PM
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I was way out in the sticks doing some exploring and stopped at an intersection to look at google maps to figure out where I wanted to go. An old farm truck pulls up and I'm thinking "Great, what knowledge does this guy think I'm lacking". Window rolls down and old boy says "Wanna bottle of water?" Best heckle ever.
11-11-18, 05:41 PM
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I was way out in the sticks doing some exploring and stopped at an intersection to look at google maps to figure out where I wanted to go. An old farm truck pulls up and I'm thinking "Great, what knowledge does this guy think I'm lacking". Window rolls down and old boy says "Wanna bottle of water?" Best heckle ever.