Singlespeed & Fixed Gear - compliments

I have heard stories of people asking how you ride that thing, or how you get up hills, or how you brake (for those of you who ride brakeless) or whatever, but what amazing compliments have you gotten?

Yesterday, only day three of my new commuting to work with the Pista, I was in the left lane at a stoplight waiting to turn left and a guy pulled up next to me. I think he checked me out, and then checked my bike out, and yelled "Hey," to get my attention.

I looked over and he asked me what it meant that I only had one gear. "It means I don't ever shift gears," I said, "and this particular gear means I don't ever coast, I don't ever stop pedaling."

He just looked at me and said, "Daaaaaaaaaaamn." really low. It was great.

the other day i was track standing at a light and was next to a suv with texas plates. they occupants were all mom aged ladies, if you will. they were talking amongst themselves about me... the the front passenger said "honey, you are the hottest thang i have ev-er seen. how you doin' that?" i replied, "magic. oooo0O0oo." they laughed.

the other day i was track standing at a light and was next to a suv with texas plates. they occupants were all mom aged ladies, if you will. they were talking amongst themselves about me... the the front passenger said "honey, you are the hottest thang i have ev-er seen. how you doin' that?" i replied, "magic. oooo0O0oo." they laughed.


you must've been rockin some drops with a big chain ring

Once a friend told me that he saw me riding my bike and that I looked "as happy as a dog with its head hanging out of a car window." I thought that was a nice thing to say.


m.

Haha!

i was out on my usual lunchtime loop, and i caught up to a middle-aged guy on a fancy trek. as we took off from the light he complimented me on the fixie, asked how far i was riding, and if i had a freewheel on the bike.

i told him 20 miles, and no.

he looked over at me and said "you're an animal!", shifted gears and dropped me like a bad habit.

that guy was STRONG!

this doesn't involve anyone in a car but it does involve a cyclist. the other day i was trackstanding through a light and this lycra-roadie bro was stopped at the light in the other direction and he gave me the weirdest look..you know how a dogs head goes sideways and it gets that dumb look on its face when it seems something interesting..yeah that's the look the guy gave me. there really aren't any fixed gear riders in this area at all so it must have taken him a second to realize how i was doing it.

you must've been rockin some drops with a big chain ring
hahaha
[flexing russell's muscles]3ttt's and 48:14[/flexing russell's muscles]

the other day i was track standing at a light and was next to a suv with texas plates. they occupants were all mom aged ladies, if you will. they were talking amongst themselves about me... the the front passenger said "honey, you are the hottest thang i have ev-er seen. how you doin' that?" i replied, "magic. oooo0O0oo." they laughed.


just think what would of happend if you would have been rocking one of these...

"It means I don't ever shift gears," I said...

He just looked at me and said, "Daaaaaaaaaaamn." really low. It was great.


He probably thought you were riding one of those 'autobikes' ... :eek: :D

"You might be losing weight but your still ugly"

That was nice.

Enjoy

depending on the age, you may want to rock this shirt instead...

Oh damn, where do i buy it????? thats a have to own shirt if i ever saw one!

DW


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i think i'm gonna grab one as well
:D

I looked over and he asked me what it meant that I only had one gear. "It means I don't ever shift gears," I said, "and this particular gear means I don't ever coast, I don't ever stop pedaling."

He just looked at me and said, "Daaaaaaaaaaamn." really low. It was great.[/QUOTE]


i maintain that pittsburgh is the greatest city ever. period.

i really miss all of yunz.

i don't know why the quote thingie didn't work right.

I don't either. Pittsburgh does rock. And it's "yinz".

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posted by Steve of Oregon

I don't either. Pittsburgh does rock. And it's "yinz".


yinz 'n'at

my bad

let's see.. you wanted amazing, these aren't amazing but i'm able to recall.

1. biking up mission drunk as all hell 2am, guy pulls up in car trying to race me, "hey sugar, nice bike"
2. "damn girl, you got some pretty legs" (8:30 am while im trying to get to school in a very bad mood)
3. Riding brakeless through some tight traffic passing a truck guy sticks his head out and says "big ups"
4. damn, look at that ass (i live in oakland)
5. trackstanding at a light some guy is all "hey, what's your name, you got skills"
6. You're my hero, you rode that thing here?
7. Some kid called me the track goddess
8. want to be my girlfriend?

you must've been rockin some drops with a big chain ring

they had Texas plates, must've been bullhorns, duh.

they had Texas plates, must've been bullhorns, duh.

Ah...sorry, my bad. They were motherly in age too, right?

that would be pretty amazing if someone said it to me (i live in NY) but then again, I'm nowhere near as fine as TIP.

I remember a couple years ago, going down 7th Ave, making my way from the right lane to the left, a van gave me space to ride in the lane, kept looking back to see where the van was, got nervous because I thought the gesture was weird and I didn't trust the van, so pulled off in between lanes to wave the van to pass, and as the van passed a couple of girls yelled from the open window..."great ass!"

After a few moments of bemused elation, I soon felt disgusted, humilitated, and ashamed at having been objectified in such a horrible way...damn chicks in vans.

BTW, for those of you keeping score, I was wearing my Mapei kit and riding my road bike...ha!

From two fifty-something queens in a convertible in the Castro as I put on long pants at a light: "Don't do it honey, the world deserves to see your calves."

Well, I do believe riding a SS got me out of quite a bit of trouble at one point b/c the security guard was just amazed I was biking up that hill with one gear. Well long story short, riding a shortcut through a place that was closed at night and I got caught. That place is a pretty nice hill too, somewhere around 400 feet of elevation gain in not too long of a distance. He basically said "It closes at dusk, and do you have only one gear on that thing?"

let's see.. you wanted amazing, these aren't amazing but i'm able to recall....

see, as a chick myself, i would consider many of those comments not as compliments but catcalls and ignore them ... maybe it's just my city-toughened knee-jerk reaction to hecklers or maybe i just need to learn how to take a compliment.

Thursday afternoon on my way back in for a double shift:

"That's a pretty bike!"

-From a woman on a bike-

Gave me a bit of a wake up smile for a while.

Well, I do believe riding a SS got me out of quite a bit of trouble at one point b/c the security guard was just amazed I was biking up that hill with one gear. Well long story short, riding a shortcut through a place that was closed at night and I got caught. That place is a pretty nice hill too, somewhere around 400 feet of elevation gain in not too long of a distance. He basically said "It closes at dusk, and do you have only one gear on that thing?"

It would've been scary if he added: "Damn, look at that ass!"

some freak once complimented my water bottle...in it's cage on a tricked out $4G Breezer I had when I raced off road...the plastic water bottle from a crappy shop impressed him with it's clever spout thingie.

"you da man!"

was speeding through the ghetto and some old guy started yelling, "go lance, go armstrong!" and proceeded to jog along the side of the road trying to hand me a pretend cup of water. i guess that could be interpreted as a compliment. not really, nevermind.

was speeding through the ghetto and some old guy started yelling, "go lance, go armstrong!" and proceeded to jog along the side of the road trying to hand me a pretend cup of water. i guess that could be interpreted as a compliment. not really, nevermind.

Its 5 am, I just worked 14 hours straight....and this made me laugh out loud and wake up the roomie

I was doing a loop in the park recently just because I didn't feel like buggin with cars and these two girls stopped me and asked to shake my hand. Apparently I impressed them with my speed...funny thing is my average was only 15.2mph that day. Other than that I've been referred to as "the mysterious biker guy". Mostly that doesn't impress the girls around here. I'd be better off in an F-150 or a *****in' Camaro. ZIMA!!

i was drafting a semi and the guys pulls up next to sticks his head out the window and tells me im power tripping

I was riding home in the rain last summer, soaking wet, and a car pulls up with these Puerto Rican girls hanging out the window. The first one yells "Can I get a ride on your bike?" and the second one chimes in "Can get a ride on YOU?" I have never felt so objectified :)

I was riding through Golden Gate park around 10pm and some guy comes running out the bushes screaming at me "GOOOOOO BACCCCKKK TTOOOOOO FRRANNCEEE!!!"

I guess he thought i was good enough to ride in the Tour!

see, as a chick myself, i would consider many of those comments not as compliments but catcalls and ignore them ... maybe it's just my city-toughened knee-jerk reaction to hecklers or maybe i just need to learn how to take a compliment.

Seriously - being a girl rider I get cat calls everyday and only take them as compliments if they come from someone on a fixie.

Although I did get whistled at by a fireman the other day as i was doing a trackstand waiting for them to back the engine into the firehouse and clear the lane. It made me blush :o (and I almost fell over, hee hee)

so far ive only seen not pretty girls on not preyy bikes....i msure they are pretty on the inside and all...but i think i need to get out more

and the only compliments i have gotten are in reference to no brakes

I was riding through Golden Gate park around 10pm and some guy comes running out the bushes screaming at me "GOOOOOO BACCCCKKK TTOOOOOO FRRANNCEEE!!!"

I guess he thought i was good enough to ride in the Tour!

thats hilarious!

thats hilarious!

It wasnt really that funny at the time, scared the **** out of me, cause i thought this dude was gonna hit me with something. i just mashed the pedals as hard as could, probably just some guy drinking in the park with his buddies.

it made me laugh because i saw this programme once that was a piss take of history documentaries on TV, and they reinacted when the french invaded the UK, and these kids all ran out on the beach shouting "your french and you know you are". at the time, it was absolutely bloody hilarious.

about 2 years ago I was cruising along on my very classic looking Coppi, came to a light and began to trackstand. A very elderly Japanese gentleman waiting for the light to change approached me and as he got close just started smiling and bowing at me..."Keirin..Keirin" he said as he pointed at my bike. I bowed back....nodded and continued on my way. Made my day.

"Hey bikey, I got your number!"
"You ride that thing all day? Don't you got time to talk? You got a phone number or sumthin?"
"Hey biker boy!" (i'm a girl, and I think i look like one, too. Teenagers get so confused.)
..."the most beautiful courier ever come in here" (that's not saying much!)
"I'm sorry but i just had to stop you and tell you that you're the most gorgeous thing i've ever seen" (says a guy who actually stepped in front of me and grabbed my drops in his hands- pretty creepy)
lots of daaamns, and woooos, and whistles, and even a bark once. Not a raawr kind of a bark, but a yap, like a terrier.
It's easy to ignore the people hanging out their windows, but the mailroom guys and the security guards are unavoidable. And it just keeps getting worse. I got nothing... The guys have an unfair advantage because at least some of the female receptionists are halfway normal people. There's no good flirting to be had with the people who sit in freight elevators all day. *shudder*

some shirtless dude pointed at me and said "you are perpetual motion" the other day...

about 2 years ago I was cruising along on my very classic looking Coppi, came to a light and began to trackstand. A very elderly Japanese gentleman waiting for the light to change approached me and as he got close just started smiling and bowing at me..."Keirin..Keirin" he said as he pointed at my bike. I bowed back....nodded and continued on my way. Made my day.

That's the cutest thing I've heard all day.

Guy riding a DWI Deluxe sees me takin' a breather on the sidewalk near an alley antrance and shouts "Heeey sexxy!" This was right after he watched my sis cross right in front of him on her fixie and she got the same comment from him. It was hilarious.

A guy who works three doors down from the sandwich shop I work in came in a asked if I was the one who rode the giant track bikes.