General Cycling Discussion - What else looks like a cyclist?

I am shure you all have had that experience where you could swear that the figure/thing in the distance is a cyclist, only for it to turn out to be a..........

Often colorfully clad roller bladers on a designated bike trail..

poululla.
indeed you have a very rich imagination dude
oscar

pedestrian......i felt like a fool

B

Sometimes when the light is just right I can look in the distance and think I see a cyclist and it turns out to be a road sign. One interesting encounter was riding to work in the dark on a trail and in the distance seeing a light, I thought was another biker, turned out it was a train. The only other time I thought something was a biker that wasn't I was riding on that same trail and heard this crashing come up along me, I though some crazy MTBer was coming through the woods int eh middle of the night, turned out it was two deer. Scared the bageezus out of me.

Mailboxes always seem to fool me.

traffic lights in the horizon. man is yellow a common color for jerseys and bikes.

sometimes i look at myself in the mirror with my $20 'kit' and confuse myself with a cyclist.

Runners! I'm always amazed how fast good runners can keep pace . We have the River to River Run here and teams run over hills most people think your crazy to ride a bike over.
http://rrr.olm.net/

Originally posted by hillyman
Runners!

same for me, but I often mistake other things for cyclists in the summer when the heat rising off the pavement distorts things far away...