Singlespeed & Fixed Gear - Pissed off singlespeeder.

Seems like all too often people want to give me advice and yell at me when I'm riding my bike. Today i was riding up to a light when someone behind me started honking and yelling at me to get out of the road. When i stopped they actually touched the rear of my tire with their bumper. I lost it totally, threw my bike down, started yelling, and when the dude got out of his car i was completely ready to kick both his ass and his friends ass. This to me was it, I mean who in the hell did this guy think he was?

Anyways, as i said i lost it, and based on the look on my face and the fact that when he wasn't in his car and we were both standing on the street he must have noticed i go 200 pounds and was only too happy to do the face dance on him.

He got back in his car and him and his friend left at top speed but it still pissed me off. Anyways, i came here to vent because,well, i figure you guys will let me rant.

k thanks.

As i was riding by a sign the said "No Bikes On the Sidewalk" as a dumbass hillbilly in a dualie deisel truck(empty bed, of course) told me that bikes don't belong on the road. Another *******, another scratch down the side of a vehicle, by way of my handlebars!! :D

anyone ride with knuckle dusters to scrape up any cars/cans that give you stick? I was tempted recently to make some adaptions to my normal riding gloves as I never have time to get my keys out

anyone ride with knuckle dusters to scrape up any cars/cans that give you stick? I was tempted recently to make some adaptions to my normal riding gloves as I never have time to get my keys out

heh. funny you should mention that... i'd like to get a pair of these:


those are kevlar plates on the knuckles... too bad they're crazy expensive...

i ride with my cable lock around my wrist. Easy to either drag it across a car or cause big dents, or if i absolutely have to, hit a road rage possessed driver.

i ride with my mini u-lock in my back pocket. i've never had to use it though. usually if someone comes too close to me i smack their passenger sideview mirror with my hand...or i hit their hood or roof...another good tactic is the mule-kick to the headlight or front bumper.

...another good tactic is the mule-kick to the headlight or front bumper.

Is that hard to do on a fixie?

Seems like all too often people want to give me advice and yell at me when I'm riding my bike. Today i was riding up to a light when someone behind me started honking and yelling at me to get out of the road. When i stopped they actually touched the rear of my tire with their bumper. I lost it totally, threw my bike down, started yelling, and when the dude got out of his car i was completely ready to kick both his ass and his friends ass. This to me was it, I mean who in the hell did this guy think he was?

Anyways, as i said i lost it, and based on the look on my face and the fact that when he wasn't in his car and we were both standing on the street he must have noticed i go 200 pounds and was only too happy to do the face dance on him.

He got back in his car and him and his friend left at top speed but it still pissed me off. Anyways, i came here to vent because,well, i figure you guys will let me rant.

k thanks.

I'd say that touching the rear of your tire is ASSAULT with a DEADLY WEAPON.
Did you get the plates? He did damage the wheel didn't he (wink,wink,nudge,nudge)?

I've had cars do illegial u-turns and run me off the road, cut me off on right turns and change lanes into me, and then yell at me because I politely (yeaah right!) pointed out how they caused me to almost make a mess in my shorts. I've found that my bar ends do a great job of detailing the paint of a car door and are great for removing side view mirrors. I removed a gentlemans mirror once after he decided to take my lane. I figured he didn't need something he never used.

I've read in a Triathlete Mag about attaching like a 20 inch curb feeler to each side of your bike with a screw attached to the end just for the cars that get too close. but i like the idea of the wolverine claw better. It only takes a few possessed cyclists with the wolverine claw to go ape s$% on some driver before drivers might be a little more attentive around us.

jeremy b

The problem with breaking the law or someones property is that i live in a relatively small city of about 300k people, if they have a cell phone the can just call the cops and stay in their car and follow me until the cops show. Plus i ride the same route day after day and not a lot of people ride where i live.

On the other hand, if the guy had come onto the sidewalk and started to attack me then i would have been legally able to defend myself. I'm not so sure that attacking his vehicle would have stood up in court even after he touched my tire.

They just need to bring back dueling so we can have a more polite society.

Is that hard to do on a fixie?

not at all. if you've got clipless pedals it's even easier because you can combine the disengaging and the kicking into one smooth motion. clips and straps make it a little harder...but it can be done.

i was talking to a guy who threw his bike through the front window of a bus once because the driver cut him off, and almost killed him, and then tried to chase him down and run him into the curb. he got in front of the bus, dismounted and used the momentum of the dismount to swing the bike up and into the windshield. he then pulled the bike out, locked it up, and made his delivery. when he came out the cops where there and he told them what happened. luckily, the bus passengers told the same story and i believe he got off without anything happening to him (except a broken derailluer hanger, he was riding a mountain bike). and the bus driver probably got fired...

They just need to bring back dueling so we can have a more polite society.

GLOVE SLAP!!! BABY, GLOVE SLAP!!!!

I just wave at em. I take the high rode. Occasionally I'll ride up along side them at the light and politely point out thier mistake. Soometimes I get and apology. Resorting to physical damage of thier vehicle just lowers me to thier level. And I've come to the realization that in a battle between a 2 ton vehicle and a 250 lb biker, the biker will always lose. Tagging someones vehicle might just push them over the edge. And you might not be thier target next time out, but some innocent young kid.

Maybe I'm just a *****. But I'll use a blinkie light on the back, make sure I'm using appropriate hand signals, plan alternative routes. I don't bob and weave through traffic. I accept the fact that I'm a pedal driven vehicle in a combustion engine world. I ride defensively, as if every driver is a complete moron.

I'm older, I'm wiser. I value my life. Its not worth wasting over territorial disputes.

I have several stories like this. My favorite one is when some dink came up behind me in his car and pushed me as he passed. I don't know how i didn't fall but oh well. So I started to scream his plate number as loud as I could because I didn't think that he would be stupid enough to stop. Well stop he did and I just rode up and removed my little pocket lock and smashed out his passenger side window and hauled ass up a wrong way street. Maybe this wasn't the best choice but it's far to late now for that train of thought.

U lock does wonders for car paint

i ride with my mini u-lock in my back pocket. i've never had to use it though. usually if someone comes too close to me i smack their passenger sideview mirror with my hand...or i hit their hood or roof...another good tactic is the mule-kick to the headlight or front bumper.

A-men, bro! :D

I did that to two stoners in a Cavalier. They were driving, almost ran me off of the road, i was literally two inches from the curb, and they were throwing pennies at me. At the next light, went up, dragged a handlebar across their paint and punched out their mirror. They were pissed and tried to follow, but i shot down a narrow alley, and into a parking lot, never to be seen again. I feel that actions have consequences, and theres no use trying to be polite to somone who isn't courtious to you. On the same note, if someone takes extra care to give me room as they pass, i will thank them if i see them at the next light. I am a jerk if they are a jerk, i am nice if the are nice.

...My favorite one is when some dink came up ... Maybe this wasn't the best choice but it's far to late now for that train of thought.

Dink is a pretty rude term... choices, think wisely before you make them.

what censored word did you use? I've tried fitting in the big 7.

"Maybe I'm just a *****. But I'll use a blinkie light on the back, make sure I'm using appropriate hand signals, plan alternative routes. I don't bob and weave through traffic. I accept the fact that I'm a pedal driven vehicle in a combustion engine world. I ride defensively, as if every driver is a complete moron."

Nothing pisses drivers off more than giving the double thumbs-up

Dink is the word I decided to use.I happen to like that word.

Dink is the word I decided to use.I happen to like that word.

Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
Main Entry3: dink
Function: noun
Etymology: disparaging name for a Vietnamese

OK so I suck! Wonderful! Thats just peachey!

serious?

This has nothing to do with race. There is only one race. It's called adaptation. And what I mean by that is we are all from the same species of man, just differant natural conditions we have adapted in unique ways. blah blah blah blah!

You could just change the term to "stupid @$$ driver".

And what I mean by that is we are all from the same species of man, just differant natural conditions HAVE FORCED US TO ADAPT in unique ways.

You could just change the term to "stupid @$$ driver".
But I called him a dink. So that is why I typed that out that way on that post.
BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH.

I really find it funny that this is what upsets you about that post. Not that I could have been seriously injured by someone or that I broke out his window, but that I didn't know that "DINK" was a racial insult.

but that I didn't know that "DINK" was a racial insult.

Probably would have been easier to have pointed that out...say ten posts ago. Glad you weren't hurt.

So from now on I will never type or speak that name.
Oh by the way I don't think you will ever find a person as lazy as I am in my dislike for all of mankind as a group. But to think or say that I regard people of another "race" below me, thats just crazy talk.

Probably would have been easier to have pointed that out...say ten posts ago. Glad you weren't hurt.
Yeah but I have this childish need to piss people off. Passive agresive.

As cyclist, we deal with it day to day. It's reality. We understand. And perhaps we're caloused to it, becuase it happens so often.

But, to tell me that you "didn't know" is BS. And BEYOND that, your response afterwords indicates that you do know better, and worse yet, you don't care.

And really, one less racist, not something I'm concerned with. Used to be evolution took care of the stupid ones. Now we have helmets.

You knew better, don't play it off. Because if you didn't, you'd apologize, which you haven't. Weak. Weak and stupid.
I really had no idea that "that"(insert offensive name) was racial. So no I do not apologize.

Probably would have been easier to have pointed that out...say ten posts ago. Glad you weren't hurt.

Other definitions of the word DINK

-Dink is slang for a silly person, a fool.
-Dink is slang for a member of a wealthy, but childless couple (double income, no kids).
-Dink is British slang for to hit someone with a weapon.
-Dink is Australian and New Zealand slang for to carry a second person on a horse, bicycle, etc.
-Dink is Australian and New Zealand slang for two people to travel together on a horse, bicycle, etc.

Had the original poster used the word in conjunction with something aluding to race, such as "this Asian _____" then he's being racist, or at the very least insensitive. By the same token, if someone takes offense to the term, an apology should be offered and we should all go off and ride our bikes.

You lie. Like a rug and a politician. With your ignorance, comes vieled stupidity.

And hence you know now, you should apologize for using it, even if out of context.

I'm a patient man. But I'll get what I ask for.

Why do you continue to fan the flames? Name calling is but one step away from racism.

Why do you continue to fan the flames? Name calling is but one step away from racism.

Why do you defend the fool?

It may be one step. But it's a hell of a step. And that step is where I draw the line, you get me? THATS WHERE I DRAW THE @#$@# LINE.

so was the driver actually vietnamese(sp?) or asian? do you only use that term for people who appear to be asian?

OK so I will point out a few things.
A. person driving car was white person(cracker, honkey)
B. funny that you think i am being racial when all I said was driver and "offensive word"
C. blah blah blah blah. I don't care. I am sorry I don't care, but oh well!

I am going to Harvard Square now. I need to drop some stuff off. See ya.

I have a new langster with big nutty bars on it. Come find me and I'l get ya a coffee.

William,

I've never heard of that word meaning anything other than a "silly person" or a "dual income no kids" and my ex-wife is Asian. This obscure racist remark may be more prevalent on west coast. I think he (and all of us) know better now. So lets go back to being gay (as in happy ;) ).

Dink is the word I decided to use.I happen to like that word.
Not just your world Hammye. Like whatever word you want, but try and respect those around you (err, umm, in here).

Reminds me of the time I said "Well I'll be a monkey's uncle" while not knowing that it is referring to my sister procreating with a black man.

So lets go back to being gay (as in happy ;) ).

Best post of the thread

William,
This obscure racist remark may be more prevalent on west coast.

Perhaps. But, I doubt him though. And once he was called on it, he should have just done the RIGHT thing, and said "sorry, I didn't know".

I used a term here once, "wa~nk~er". I didn't know what it meant. Some folks from the old country got bent up about it, and then, someone sent me a PM. I apologized, and I"m not one to be nice. I was wrong.

He knows what he should do. And I'll be around until he does it.

Reminds me of the time I said "Well I'll be a monkey's uncle" while not knowing that it is referring to my sister procreating with a black man.

Wow. Interesting, who knew?

it's not like he said the N-word, or some other super well-known racist term.

i remember about a month ago, someone said "jipped" meaning ripped off...they didn't know that it was a remark aimed at deriding gypsies (similar in usage to "jewed"). i don't believe that person edited the term out of their post, and then they went on to ask "what else could i have said?" they did appologize though...although i wouldn't have been offended if they hadn't. i was just pointing out that something they said could be percieved as offensive to someone at some point in time...even though i guess it's okay to poke fun at gypsies in our society, because you hear it all the time on TV... i KNOW i've heard the term "dink" used on tv a few times too...in fact, there was a saturday morning cartoon on in the late 80s/early 90s that was called "dink." ...had something to do with dinosaurs, and was eventually taken off the air and overshadowed by the more-popular "denver, the last dinosaur."

either way, i think your .sig is a little over the line. i highly doubt that haymme was aware of that particular meaning of the word. i wasn't. i don't think i'd appologize either. i'd probably just say "oh. well, i'll be mindful of that in the future. thankyou for pointing it out." or something to that effect.

isn't ****** just a term for someone who masturbates frequently? only repressed prudes get offended at that type of language...

Hmm, the two guys in the car were black and I'm white. Racisim!!! Yes, it's true, im sorry i mentioned that because it makes me a racist!

Actually you read a lot about white people appologizing for racial tension but do you guys think the fact that i was white and the two guys in the car were black had anything to do with it? A lot of the white man is bringing us down crap but how much of the let's not be like them and spread the hate is being taught? I wonder.

Sorry, I'm a racist for bring up the fact that other ethnic groups might occasionaly not treat white people with perfect fairness.

This reminds me of a line from the Big Lebowski, my all time favorite movie.

Dude," the chinaman peed on my rug."

Walter, " and dude, the prefered expression is asian amercian."

Dude, "he peed on my rug, this guy didn't build the railroad."

Something like that.

Now if I were Hillfolk, Inbred or maybe even just southern I would find this offensive. And than you made evenm better by adding in ther malegoat part of the insult. I really wish I could just let loose with the foul language.

William Karsten
I am a patient man.
Registered: May 2001
Quote:
Originally Posted by superchivo
Sounds like Wimp Chow to me.

This coming from the man who broke his collarbone trying to procreate with goats.
William Karsten
I am a patient man.
Registered: May 2001
Quote:
Originally Posted by superchivo
For the record I was chasing an angry husband.
So you were chasing an unwilling malegoat?

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Weird,
'That word' that's now so entremely silly was always used when I was a kid as a non-swear word for penis. Those crazy christian reformed kids had a whole language of not quite swear words. Darn, shoot, jeeze, the list goes on and on. It was a way to swear without swearing. D##k was one of those words. I've used it about a billion times. If the word as used isn't racist then is it still racist? I don't think we're going to solve it here boys.