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besides snot rockets

Sixty Fiver

Grabbed my ass and made lewd propositions.

escarpment

^wow, hoping it was a female.

-aside from numerous MUP racing and angry glares. Once in a critical mass ride, on the lakeshore drive bike path in chicago. This guy on a bmx comes flying through the crowd, hits my front wheel, hits someone else, spills and takes a few people out, I got knocked hard and was clipped in but managed to stay upright. Durring this same ride, the mass had surrounded this one car and this woman was furious. It was pretty funny, kind of sad, at one point the woman started to kick bikers and everyone just raised their bikes above their heads and yelled. The pinnacle occurred when the mass rode onto Lakeshore drive itself which is a 50mph freeway and caused a dead halt to traffic. People were standing on cars and then about 10 cop cars came up and everybody ran away.

WHOOOSSHHH...

Beside just blasting right by me?

Machka 

Well ....... one of them married me.

thump55

Guys keep asking me if I want to go camping with them. If we stop at a tavern, they are always asking if they can push in my stool.

Myosmith

Never anything intentionally bad. I've had a couple close calls on group rides when someone didn't hold their line or hit their brakes without warning. I can't complain too much I've made my share of mistakes too. Other than that it's been all positive with lots of encouragement and thumbs up. Occasionally some unsolicited advice rubbed me the wrong way but I never though it was meant to. Cyclists are generally a pretty good group. I don't ride on the A-rides which are more competitive and from what I understand can get a little dicey at times.

AdelaaR

Some have even waved at me.

I hate it when that happens.

antimonysarah

The only memorably bad experience: I pull up at a red light (with a crosswalk and a cavalcade of pedestrians crossing), in the dark, cars packed in with me. Another bike pulls up behind me, starts yelling at me to go. I point out that it's a red light, remain stopped. Dude starts swearing at me. I ignore him. Finally, he hops off, picks up his bike, walks around me on the sidewalk, puts his bike down in front of me, swears at me some more, and rides off through the red light, up a heavy-traffic one-way street the wrong way, no lights. About ten seconds later the light finally changes. Really, the part that got me was the aggressive swearing and screaming at me -- if there hadn't been, as previously noted, a boatload of people around us, I would have been seriously rattled rather than being mostly amused.

mulveyr 

Does it count that someone in a car screamed "Get off the road!" as they drove by with a Cervalo on the roof? I have to assume they were a cyclist. :-)

cplager

ftw!

AMFJ

I moved to the A rides because they were WAY safer than the other rides.

bikecrate

Rude wheel suckers really bug me. I’ve had plenty of unpleasant experiences with that. Also pace lines (not one that I’m participating in) that try to push you out of the way. There have been innumerable near collisions with wrong way cyclist and stop sign/light runners. However, nothing that I’ve gotten into a shouting match over.

Carbonfiberboy 

When I was struggling at the back of the pack on a steep hill, a beautiful woman put her hand on my lower, uh, back and gently pushed for about 100'. We're married to other people, though. Another pretty woman stopped and loaned me her pump when mine broke on a brevet. So many kindnesses, some strangers, some not. I've sucked many a wheel and bridged others back up in return, been encouraged by many people and encouraged others.

My gripe is idiots who don't think anyone can be faster than them and sit in the middle of the road on a group ride. But that's not personal, just dumb.

roadwarrior

Not necessarily. Some buy Cervelos like they are furniture. Just to look at.

klondike300

My biggest pet peeve is just the ones who can't ride in a straight line. Especially the weavers going up hills that don't seem to have a clue about other riders around them. Almost got taken out at the Chilly Hilly last weekend. Lady cut me thinking she could blast up a hill and blew her legs out 3/4 way up. Cut right in front of me which caused me to swerve and almost take out a faster rider. Then she proceeded to both yell at us like it was our fault.

fettsvenska 

I haven't really had a big problem with any road bikers but when I'm out mountain biking on the other hand, some in that crowd get pretty upset if you're in their way. I'm more of a pack mule than a race horse so I try to stay out of the way or pull off to the side to make way for faster riders as much as possible. Sometimes it is difficult to hear riders coming up behind and when you're riding single track it can be a little unsafe to take your eyes off the track and look behind you. I'm happy to move out of the way if a rider let's me know that they are behind me but a few times I've gotten the "get the F out of the way". Also, this is on a public singletrack at a public park reserve that is open to riders of all skill levels. For me that is the worst of it. However, a close friend of mine was riding just a couple of weeks ago and a rider came up beside him and reached out and grabbed is bars and caused him to wreck. His front brake rotor got snagged on something and completely tacoed.

PatrickGSR94

Riding on a MUP barely 8 feet wide, near the right side, when 2 riders riding side-by-side come the other way. Do they bother to get one behind the other as they pass me? Nooooo just keep on riding while I barely am able to keep it on the path.

YOJiMBO20

Especially the ones that buy Cervalos.

jsharr

This one time at bike camp, a guy waxed my chain for me. I finished faster after that.

Jobiensis

I find it annoying when I pass someone and they take it as a personal affront, sprint to get ahead of me and then slow down. I'm just trying to keep my HR in a zone.

They were probably trying to get a KOM on a Strava segment.

PatrickGSR94

HAHAHAHAH I wouldn't doubt that, not one little bit.

coasting 

that is so kinky. you saucy devil.

SnowJob

I've had lots of nice interactions with fellow cyclists over the years.

After I finished mtbing at a local trail, I was up at the MUP off the trail pumping up my tires for the ride home (about 7 miles or so, so I didn't want to ride on like 30 psi), this roadie dude rolls up and offers to let me use a shot from his CO2 cartridge. That was super nice of him.

Also, last year I was on my cross bike cruising down the side of a rural road at something like 25 mph. I slowly became aware of an interesting sound, like a hollow drumming. I realized it sounded like a disc wheel. I turned around and sure enough there's a dude one a tri-bike with a disc wheel drafting me (hands on his brakes, not the tri-bars, thankfully). He gave me a weak smile, then passed and we traded off for about 20 minutes before splitting up in different directions. We didn't really share any conversation, just helped each other fly along for a while.

Also, about ten years ago on RAGBRAI, someone passed me the spleef.

tagaproject6

Someone gave me a spare tube.