Has anyone been stoped by a motorist for something they thought you did?

Yesterday, some clown in a company van accused me of knocking off his driverside
rearview mirror as I was about to get off my bike at the Fred Meyer store.
He threatened to call the cops, and asked if I felt anything hit me as I was riding
my bike. He seemed to think that a cyclist caused the whole mirror assembly
to be sheared off his company's van. About a minute later, he took off and
drove around the block looking for other cyclists to possibly blame. He met
up with me at the northwest corner of the store, finally acknowledging that
I was not at fault. I called him a moron, and told him to "use his head".
If that mirror assembly would have hit me, I would have been knocked flat.

well, they accuse my of being gay. Other than that, im good.

I've been accused of being sexy once.

My butt was accused of looking good once...

Apparently, I am gay, cute, wear "sweet pants"(I get that from my hill-billy roomate) and have a nice ass. My favorite is "Get on the sidewalk, FAG!!"

Is it always the biking shorts that bring on the gay references, or simply because you're on a bike?

Would you get called a fag if you were wearing cargo shorts?

Would you get called a fag if you were wearing cargo shorts?

In Queensland you probably would. But then, I've never been called a fag anywhere else when I was riding, so it might not apply in your part of the world.

I've been called a criminal, a "dumb haole," and a terrorist. A cop actually thought I was a suspect in a terrorist threatening case because I was "A caucasian male in a white t-shirt on a bike" and, oh jesus, for some reason I tried to turn left in traffic and not use a crosswalk.

if i meet some one new, like a freind of a freind on msn and mention my cycling, well fi its a girl iv often had "oh then you must be sexy"

in person iv only had "you must be stupid" as a response for my cycling offroad in the, the cold and wet in the middle of winter at sub zero tempertures.

oh now i remmeber in a group ride on road ages ago some wise guys in a car stuck there heads out and shouted some stuff, dont remember what it was thou.

I had a similar experience years ago, when I purchased my first Raleigh 10 speed. It was "chopper yellow". As I rode to school, someone stopped me on the way and asked me where I got the bike. He said someone had just stolen his kid's bike and it looked just like mine. I just laughed and rode on. No use getting into an altercation.

---------
Quote:
Has anyone been stoped by a motorist for something they thought you did?

Yesterday, some clown in company van accused me of knocking off his driverside
rearview mirror as I was about to get off my bike at the Fred Meyer store.
----------

I think he stopped you because he thought you were a Fred. - lol

I think he was just trying to pin the blame on someone. I guess
I looked like an esay target (Fred).

I wonder what his boss said when he saw the van.

"Way to go, Lance," while riding in the middle of a downtown lane, keeping up with traffic. Armsrong is waaaaaay overexposed, but he has done a lot for cycling and cyclists.

My butt was accused of looking good once...

I know exactly how you feel. It happened to me but a MAN made the comment. I was disgusted!

I got some rather wrong comments made my way by some 60 year olds :(

...I'd much rather have some 20-somethings do that...at least it's my age group...

I got some rather wrong comments made my way by some 60 year olds :(

...I'd much rather have some 20-somethings do that...at least it's my age group...

Aw, they're just jealous because they're all out-of-shape fogies and can't pleasure their wives any more.