Miele Man

Once a long time ago in Toronto Canada I had a couple of idiots in a car throw eggs at me. A couple hit my body and one struck me in the side of the head. I was able to follow them to their house or perhaps place they were visiting. I waited for a bit after they went inside and then removed the four valve cores from their tires.

Cheers

bikecrate

Sounds like many of you live around some pretty crappy people. I don't think I've ever had anything thrown at me while riding. FL has such a bad rep for drivers it is kind of surprising. Here I guess they just run you over.

KraneXL

Florida is a state full of people from somewhere else. The natives (which is probably the minority) are more warm and hospitable. You can always tell the natives because they're the ones that will speak to you.

JanMM

Yep, zombie thread.
I'll just recycle what I posted five years ago.

rollagain

Physical stuff, only once, fifty years ago, give or take: a couple jerks in a pickup yelled something at me and the passenger threw a small bag of trash at my head and missed.

Verbal abuse, several times in more recent decades.

Toadmeister

Many years ago, Naked college gals threw themselves at me, but I pedaled away faster than they could run with their boobs freely bouncing.

I showed them!

KraneXL

Video or it didn't happen. jk

Kabuki12

Only once while riding my Schwinn Varsity to school in about 1970 or so riding upstream (last time I did that) a rock from a car traveling at about 30mph hit me square in the chest . It hurt like hell and left quite a mark . I was probably lucky as we didn’t wear helmets in those days. Joe. joesvintageroadbikes.wordpress

delbiker1 

Yes

tim24k

Sadly I’ve had my share thrown at me. Coffee, beer cans, all kinds of trash.

CliffordK

After nearly a half century of riding, I did have an odd experience a couple of years ago when I hard some yelling, then a bag of trash went flying over my head and down the bank.

Because of the yell, I know it was intentional.

I need to get my cameras working. At least with photos/video, I could write to the PD about littering violations.

Not thrown at me, but I've had a few tossed near me at stop lights.

It has been a few years, but at the time I had thought about tossing them back into the car. On an unoccupied seat for a nice burn spot? Tell the driver "You've Dropped Something".

Stormsedge

Fast food drink cups...fast food bags. The worst for me, though, are the straight piped diesel pickups sneaking up to "roll coal"---the turbo spin up whistle is deafening and startling. I rode a 100K this summer where a clown was actually stalking riders and making repeated passes. Crazy people.

KraneXL

It does not compute. Illegal in CA.


Such a stronger complaint for those in the auto exhaust air quality regulated states. Haven't seen that kind of thing in decades.

MoAlpha

Back in the 70s when I was in college I took a rock, a big one. It hit me right on the wing of the pelvis and hurt. I didn't list it above because I yelled at the guy first and he went ahead, stopped, picked up the missile, and waited for me. No one trained in a helmet in those days.

I have also been run into a curb and beaten up by teenagers, but that's a different story, also from long ago.

wipekitty

Half-full water bottle chucked at me; they missed. I've also been coal-rolled.

Funny thing is, both incidents happened while I was JRA in street clothes, not out in road kit. In both cases, I managed to sprint behind the offenders long enough to get a license plate, and I called them into the police. Being a small town, the police said they'd go have a little chat with these folks.

curbtender

They opened a bike lane on a local bridge. It's been pretty controversial in that drivers wanted a third lane because of long backups. I'm already seeing Starbucks specials that have been hurled into the lane. Or is the coffee that bad?

KraneXL

Foolish creatures. Maybe you should wear a "Would you prefer I drive?" jersey?Its OK, its just grossly overpriced.

Digger Goreman

The biggest trash stayed in the car.

Korina

So it seems there may be an advantage to being a woman on a bike. I've never had anything thrown at me, but once some young guy in a car shrieked at the top of his lungs while passing me. I managed to not actually jump out of my skin, but it was close. Another time a dude -- I mean dud -- made a shooting finger and a quiet pow sound while passing.

At least it was the passengers and not the drivers doing it.

Reynolds 

2 times IIRC, but nothing serious - water once, and was sprayed with "carnival foam" another time. But not as an aggression I think.
Not from a vehicle, but some kids threw pebbles with slingshots at our group once. They were in a field and ran away afterwards.

caloso

One time some jerk HS kids threw a roll of duct tape at me. They were more than a little surprised when I stuck my hand out, caught it, and chucked it back at them. (Old third baseman's muscle memory, I guess.)

imakecircles

I lived and rode in Florida in the '80's. Had several empty beer cans tossed my direction, but the worst was a dog who decided to jump out of the back of an oncoming pickup truck at me. The poor dog didn't allow for the speed of the vehicle it was jumping out of, and kind of crumpled and slid along the pavement. I didn't stick around to see the results of that incident and continued my ride.

curbtender

But the play was at home...

bpcyclist

Nope. Not once, and I've been doing this awhile. Now, if being yelled at and flipped off and honked at and struck by cars counts, well, I got that. Plenty.

wipekitty

Maybe the super cute bike helps?

Ugh, if I had a dollar for every time young guys made those shrieking noises...well, I'd have a lot of dollars. I've also been called the usual term that can also designate a female dog, as well as slurs that are derogatory toward racial groups and sexual orientations with which I do not identify. The barking - that's what gets me. Why do people bark? I've started barking back.

Drivers just don't like me - they must know I'm not a nice gal. /rant