StephenH

Hmmm, maybe low gear, lean over the front and lock the front brake up. Maybe not a burn-out, but sort of a grind-off. Haven't tried it to see if it works.


Haven't been flashed by any cuties or complimented on my posterior or been asked to wear Spandex.

For some reason, when you ride a unicycle, pedestrians feel compelled to say SOMETHING, but don't actually have anything to say, so you get some pretty dumb (and repetitive) comments. "Where's your other wheel" or variations thereof being the most common.

fuzz2050

'Have you got any speed? Ya know, Methamphetamine?'

Grim

I've had a few. Feb this year I weighed 240lb. I weigh 204 now.

1.
Few weeks ago on my way home from work (just cargo shorts and a Tshirt not kitted) this college age chick (and I'm a block away from the local college) is screaming and hanging out the passenger side window 3 lanes over and stuck in traffic as I pass in the bike lane. I can't make it out if it was good or bad or if she had turrets.
So the light changes and they pass me only a lane over and she is still hanging out the window and about the only thing I could make out was "hay baby" and the rest was just gone in the Doppler. They made the next light that I caught me. I see them pull into a shopping center and loose track of where they went after the went to the top of the hill. I pass the shopping center after th light has changed and they had pulled around at park where a 20ft retaining wall for the parking lot overlooked the road. She's up there cat calling me screaming "hay baby nice legs!" At 42 and 204lb I'm no looker but it made me feel good.

2. Pull out of work 5pm and traffic is miserable. Bike lane starts right at the corner by my office so I make my way through the traffic over to the right to the bike lane. I hear "wanna race?" I look to my left and its one of the FE's I support in a marked company truck. Told him "Sure! all the way to 575!" Where he gets on the hwy. 10 traffic lights 1.5 miles at 5pm on a Friday. He lost miserably.

3. Out of the mouths of children entry. Copied from my June 12th blog entry.

durty

her speech was for the most part unintelligible, but here's what I heard "wha ya da...nee...sidewalk...wha..."

usually it's people telling me I need to get out of the road despite the "share the road" signs everywhere...
South Carolina,
-durty

Jonahhobbes

Just coming up to midnight, tonight on my way home a couple of kids on the cycle track drunk or high, one yelled "Hey Mr Biker Man!"

Not the strangest or funniest thing but made me smile and I waved and shouted back hello!

downtube42

1. when I was in grade school, "look, it's Mario Andretti" from the neighborhood punks

2. "hey, those f**n idiots behind you are riding in the middle of the road", from a pickup truck driver who thinks all cyclists are related

3. "allez! allez! allez!" - how I interpret any windblown yelling from cars

bugly64

A woman has slammed her brakes to a stop at a stop sign near my house and has yelled something at me and my wife on different ocassions but we can hear it because her windows are up. She looks really silly and I think she is mad since she has to wait for us to go by.

metalchef87

Well the weirdest thing was just the other day when a big rusty Ford truck was stopped at a stop light adjacent to the road I was traveling on, as I passed the driver yelled:

"Whooo! You better hurry I'll make you squeal like a pig boy!"

At which point I stood up and sprinted away as fast as possible...crazy rednecks.

downtube42

That was no ignorant redneck. He took a look at you, summed up your fears, pushed your button, and made you run. You, on the other hand, allowed another human being to control your behavior.

Of course, I would have run too, but that's beside the point.

AdamD

You should have escalated it by yelling back "You sure do got a purdy mouth!".

rugerben

I had a guy get up behind me and yell "you can't take the whole lane you know!!"
I replied "Yes I can. Read the laws."

He actually pulled up next to me and started discussing the laws, telling me that he was interested in it, and he had just looked and saw that cyclists are permitted to be on the road, so long as they are within the right 3 feet of the lane.

He was mistaken, but it was an interesting twist. I had expected him to give me the finger and drive off as most do. Instead he actually discussed it with me.

rugerben

Thanks. 'Dueling Banjos' is going to be stuck in my head for the rest of the day.

atbman

Not on my bike, but on a pedestrian crossing. Driver playing chicken with me, then stopping at the last possible second, "How did you know my bleepin' brakes were bleepin' workin'?"

MNBikeguy

Waiting at a stoplight, a fellow commuter rode up beside me. He was wearing a yellow reflective DOT vest. On the shell was the word "greed" spray painted, on top of a circle / slash.
As the light changed he looked at me and yelled, "You're just part of the machine" as he rode off.

I have no idea what he meant, but it was sure strange.

CB HI

He meant, "You are truly one with your cycle".

That, or he was jealous that your cycle was way better than his.

carkmouch

I was standing and cranking up a hill on my fixed gear and a girl said I had a nice ass. Another time I was spinning and going fairly fast up a hill sitting down on my LHT and a girl said I had nice legs.

Must be doin' something right...

southpawboston

i've never gotten any compliments, and only had one person say anything to me. i was riding home from work, in the bike lane of a busy urban thoroughfare. traffic to my left was backed up at a light. a parked car to the right of the bike lane had its door open, blocking the bike lane, while the driver of the car was standing next to his car giving directions to one of the cars waiting for the light. i had no choice but to stop in the bike lane. realizing what was happening, i didn't make a big deal of it and just stopped, figuring he'd get back into his car shortly and everyone would be on their way. after about 10 seconds of waiting, there are about two or three other bike commuters backed up behind me. as the guy turns to get back in to his car, he sees me and the others waiting there and says "you cyclists get all the rights". as i started off i said "excuse me? exCUSE me? what rights?". the other commuters behind me started heckling him, but i can't remember exactly what they said.

Bollocks

"FIXED WHEEL" was shouted at me once . At the time I was indeed on a bike that had a fixed wheel .
Not sure why I should need notification of this ?

Dickhead

ilchymis

Not exactly a "yell", but I was riding at night in Gainesville after we won a big football game, and I got chased down by a Chevy Suburban full of singing Gators fans who proceeded to lean out the right-side window and high-five me.

nahh

My dad and I were riding back from the store about dusk yesterday, and we were cranking since we had 7 miles to ride before dark (left the lights at home, stupidly) and some group of roaming teenager yelled something like "ride-adlkj-adflk-grobble" as we rode by...

and i get "woohoo..fixie for life man!" sometimes, and usually i'm not even riding my fixie, they just know it's a buzz word now...

Allen

https://www.metacafe.com/watch/707062/bike_drifting/
^^^
Like that

InfiniteRegress

I'm a woman, so when someone's yelling at me when I'm riding, it's usually some guy asking for a sexual favor (yeah, like I'm going to stop riding, come over to your car, and perform the sexual favor of your choice). The things I've had yelled at me that come to mind are too raunchy for this listserv. But my standard response is, "Only in your dreams!"

Jonahhobbes

No, we do "raunchy" here

Artkansas 

I was riding home through downtown traffic after exhibiting my Bikes At Work trailer at the Natural State Expo when a gentleman in a pickup yelled,

"Certainly, that has got to be illegal!"

What could I say but

"Nope."

mtusz

"How can you afford a full carbon/ultegra bike, but not a new pair of jeans?"

Yelled while I passed a decked out roadie on my way to work in the summer! I would ride a beater bike, but I can't afford one now