Mark4

A group of high school kids (who were walking their bikes) cheered me on as I tackled a steep hill on my commute.

Dave Mayer

Best compliment: "42".

This was from a cop on the side of the road holding a radar gun. 42mph on the flats, me spinning like crazy. If I'd had taller gearing, I could have gone faster. Major tailwind assist.

shelbyfv

You looked through 10 years of dead threads until you found a place to post your story? You are persistent as well as fast!!

indyfabz

You are in the lead for the zombie thread resurrection award of the week. Just keep in mind that it's only Monday.

Dave Mayer

Best Bike Forums compliment I've received this year.

avidone1

I think after 10 years your allowed to start a new thread of the same name.

crankythunder

Best Compliment I ever got**********


"Nice Ass!"

Said the bombshell in the convertible as she spanked me in the spandex.





Regards,
(not so) Cranky

1983

Me: nude, fresh out of the locker room shower, toweling off after the post commute shower.

Other dude, stepping into the showers for a towel: "nice leg" [sic]

Me: silence.

pataspen

In the Badlands of South Dakota in 2002 I met some guy who was impressed with my tour. He said "I'm too old to do something
like that". I asked his age... 36. I was 37. Made me feel young. In his defense, he looked a lot older than 36.

pataspen

And another one... not sure if it's really a compliment, but I found it humorous.

Gatlinburg, TN in 2005, I was talking to some twenty-something guy who was impressed with my trip. The conversation went like this:

Him - "Wow, you're like that mailman!"
Me - "Huh?"
Him - "You know, that mailman"
Me - "Huh?
Him - "You know, the famous one. Rides in France"
Me - "Lance Armstrong?"
Him - "Yeah, that's the guy."

I guess he figured the US Postal Service team was made up of actual mailmen out riding their bikes. Still, I took it as a compliment in a weird way.

fat sam

I just turned 50 this fall and in the last two yrs have lost a 100 lbs. my weight loss started because of a Dr. Visit, nothing major, just Dr thought it was time to try to shed some lbs. my Dr is an attractive 35 yr old female. Well, biking was my exercise of choice. I started right off with bike shorts and live in a small town so everyone knows me and my Dr would see me riding all the time. After about 60 lbs lost my doc stoped me on the street one day and congratulated me on my weight loss and told me how proud she was of me and told me she was going to suggest to her husband to buy some bike shorts. I couldn't get home fast enough to tell my wife, she laughed.

kuroba

"Your ride HOW MUCH to work?" Pretty much everyone when I tell them of my 16kms commute.

"Your rode in this cold/rain?!" Coworkers. Whenever I choose to ride when it's specially cold or raining and even my fellow bike commuters at the office left their bikes home for the day. It's kind of a special badge of honor. Even if that "badge" is a bleeding knee because I feel off the bike :'D

Tony Marley

A number of times, when riding with my two young daughters on our triplet, we have had teens and sports car riders pull alongside, slow down, and say, "That's so cool...."

Back when I had Rans V-Rex in Las Vegas, a couple of time drivers would stop along the road to ask about it and enquire if I built it myself.

Repack Rider

"Can I get a photo with you? My friends won't believe I ran into you on the trail."

GravelMN

The best compliment I ever got was a one-word expletive from a juvenile delinquent. At a convenience store on one of my ride routes, I came across two male teens showing off their "skills" in the parking lot. I had seen them both a couple of times before. Apparently they found an overweight 50+ year old wearing a jersey and MTB shorts on a flatbar touring bike humorous and started making wise-arse comments. As I left the store, the louder of the two pulled along side of me and asked if I wanted to race. He rode beside me with the other guy not far behind for about a block taunting me to race and making comments about giving me a head start or calling 911 if I had a heart attack. I had no desire to race but was tired of listening to him so after the intersection I stood up and hammered it. The guy beside me was riding a flatbar hybrid and kept pace with me for a couple hundred yards before he started drifting back. He didn't have enough breath to try to be funny anymore. As I started to pull ahead of him his buddy from a ways back yelled "Old man's kickin your ass". Then came the compliment as my unwanted opponent shouted the expletive as he gave up and stopped pedaling.

I'm not a "fast" rider by most standards and this kid was no roadie, but I still grinned for the rest of the ride.

corrado33

I got whistled at by multiple bros in their bro-dozers on their way to a country concert once. (I'm a guy.) (Actually not making that up. It happened.)

Phloom

The best and only compliments from females, "Nice legs."

The male compliments only refer to the bicycle and specifically my Raleigh Competition GS.
"Wow."
"That sure is a shiny bike."
"That old school bike sure is pretty."

When I was younger, like 18, and riding around Europe on my Falcon; I had what could be perceived as a compliment. An older man, in his 40's, offered me 1000 Swiss francs to spend the night with him. That was about $400 USD in 1976. No, I did not accept the offer but it was flattering. A few days later, a pretty young lady in Germany treat me to supper and a sleep over night. I did not take any money for that. Women in Europe are a bit more sophisticated than the women in Canada. My lean body on a Falcon bicycle was probably pretty sexy.

Daniel4

A truck or a SUV pulled up beside me one evening on my left side and the driver yelled out "I wish all cyclists were all lit up like you."

Yendor72

My neighbor once said, "Those are nice squirrel squeezers." I don't think he meant it though.

PanjoJames

"Those shorts are tight.... don't worry, its not a bad thing"

calamarichris

Exactly what my ex-wife said when she found an old picture of my college gf.

Once when I was riding to work wearing slacks and a tie, some manual-laborer in a dilapidated pick-up pulled up next to me at a stoplight and said, "Where's yer buddy?" (Like the neutered dog I am, I didn't get it; but when I told my boss, he laughed and laughed--"the guy thought you were a Mormon!"

My favorite compliments are when motorcyclists speed up and scramble to pass me back, but someone once said to me with deliberateness, "You ride a bike ...very ...well."

veganbikes

It would have been funny if it was a requirement for the team to actually deliver mail. I would love to see Lance delivering mail (by bike of course).

02Giant 

Four years ago while riding my hybrid on the road in Lakewood CO. a couple of roadies commented when passing, that they were impressed with the speed i was able to maintain.
I had no clue they were behind me...I probably would have pushed harder.

wannabemekon

"That's an interesting place to carry your pump."

I'm still not sure what they meant, but I took it as a compliment.