James827

I get the occasional teenage girls yelling "hey baby" or "hi there" or whatever. I'm 34 years old but hey it still feels good when they yell stuff. A lot of people I know call me Armstrong just because I ride a bike. There is one teenage boy who yells Go Go Go Go Go whenever I see him. The funny thing is he is kind of fat and it's ironic that he is making fun of me when he should be the one on a bike.

keithm0

And still, no flash. Hmm... it must be you. (It must be me, too -- I never get flashed...)

genec

Well not much lately... Although I get a "go Lance go" about 2 years ago...

But back in the 80's I was a pedicab driver... I used to get my ass slapped and get "propositioned" fairly regularly... I took the propositions all in jest... and usually ended up being tipped quite well. It was fun.

No flashing though... and no moons either.

crhilton

I think I got an "I love you" from some teenage boys.

I'm a guy.

drjava

Cruising down the MUP one morning, a woman on a bike approaching asks, "How can I make this seat stop hurting?" She wasn't bad looking and I almost stopped and told her that I would have to make a closer examination to give her any advice.

cyclokitty 

"Sweet Mother of God!"

villageidiot

I don't even get flashed in New Orleans.

striegel 

When I was out for a lunchtime ride one day, a big 4-door dumptruck passed me going the opposite direction. Some guy leaned out the rear window on my side and he yelled something (probably meant to be an insult) about spandex. The funny thing was that, at that time, I didn't even own any spandex at all.

ItsJustMe

If I'm going to be an Armstrong, I want to be Neil.

TheatreME

I am a fairly new commuter so this shows some of my poorer judgement perhaps...
I work at a theatre that provides housing and two of us usually bike the 5.5 miles in, always in work clothes (t shirt, jeans, and boots). The route is all 25 mph residential until you get into downtown. We are riding along, just passing the elementary school. There is hardly ever any traffic so we ride two abreast until someone pulls up behind us when we get over as far as possible (no shoulder). A guy tails us up to a stop sign and then yells as we turn the obligatory "Get on the F****** side walk"
I usually dont let it bother me, but this day I turn around and see a shirtless guys with shaggy hair a thin mustache in a truck with a lift kit. I grew up in alabama so this is nothing I have not seen before, but this words "put a shirt on ***** hat" where out of my mouth before I could think. He yelled louder as he continued thru the stop sign

oopps

joejack951

I drove a car in college where the thought popped into my head every time I gassed up. And gas was only about $1.50/gallon then

Technically, since I gave it away eventually, gassing up made the car worth something

closetbiker

Once, after a van was following me for a while, it moves on over to the other lane and comes up beside me, rolls down the window, the driver shakes her head in disgust at me, and says,

"An old man in the middle of the road!" and then pulls away.

It took me a while to figure out I think what she said was, a grown man. I was wondering how it was she figured I was old.

A better one I had was when a car was driving and passing me in the bike lane I was in, the passenger of the car told me I should watch where I was riding

cradduck

I am taking a break in downtown on the ride home from work enjoying a hotdog I just bought and sipping on a soda. A women stuck in afternoon traffic pulls up next to me.

"Are you in some kinda race?"

Blindrage

Well today I got one of the two biggies. I have been staying on the sidewalks and making sure to learn what I was doing with the clipless shoes and such. Well today I decided that for the first time I was going to do the short trip to the store on the road since I could keep a good speed for a few miles. Sure enough I had not been in the road more than 2 minutes when some lady in a big honking SUV pulls up and yells to get off the damn road and use the sidewalk. I knew it was a waste of time, but I caught her at the light and informed her that by Colorado law I was supposed to use the road and she was lucky that I only used the far right edge instead of making sure I was taking the whole lane. I did not catch the snotty reply as she sped off.

road_rascal

"Hey lady, how's the gas mileage?"

JohnBrooking

I can't think of any yelling that was particularly unusual, but I did have a motorist ask me in a very calm tone once "Is that a monocle?", referring to my helmet-mounted mirror. It was even funnier that it took me a few seconds to get what she was saying, because I had just been watching a Harry Potter movie with my kids the night before, and my first interpretation of her question was "Is that McGonagle?"

Another variation on the theme: Last week I observed a motorist laying on the horn and yelling an obscenity at another motorist in front of him, while on a cell phone, which was funny in that the yeller's car had a bumper sticker that said "Men are idiots, and I married their king", which certainly seemed true if that incident was any indication.

I've been waiting for years for someone to yell "Get on the sidewalk!" to me so I could yell back "The side what?!", but I just don't seem to get this one!

clintbike

It's not funny, but it's my most memorable yelling because I caught up to them.

3 high-school aged girls shouted 3 different things from a pick-up as they drove by. Since it was all mixed together, it sounded like "***-geh-aaaaaa-hole-road-stupi-aaaaaaa".

When I picked up my pace and caught up to them as they were pulling into a library parking lot a few minutes later, they weren't yelling too much at me. I asked them if they wanted to yell more since I was right there for them to yell at. After quietly rushing by me in embarrassment, (with me enjoying every moment of their pitiful squirming) one yelled "leave us alone!"

Hopefully they were going to the library to get smarter.

jpdesjar

the only thing i can note here is that i see a man in a prius almost every morning who waves to me in a very friendly manner...i think because he is in the hybrid and i am on the bike we are working together

it always makes my day that someone sees me and relates to what i am doing

good times

toyota200x

heheeee. I like that.

Cadfael

ORANGES!!!

And the sad thing is I understand why.

There was some stupid ad campaign in the UK for a soda drink called Tango, it usually involved some innocent person walking along the street and this bright orange fat bloke would run up to them and scream 'ORANGES!!!' into their ear then run off waving his arms like a loon... leaving his victim struck motionless in shock.

So for a few months... brain dead drivers decided to play the game and a passenger would stick their head out of a car window and scream...

ORANGES!!!!!

jpdesjar

yeah i really liked this one too

grey_falcon

Man, some of you guys get really odd ones... the most i ever get is

Me: Gets on bus and shows driver his pass, after putting his bike on the bus
Driver: Trying to get out of the rain(while its a storm outside)
me: Nope, just heading home (driver goes real quiet)

*stopped at a traffic light downtown
Trucker pulls up along side...
*Trucker says * GET THE HELL ON THE SIDEWALK, YOU"LL KILL YOURSELF
I replied: side... WHAT?
Trucker drives away...

had a lot of good laughs after that...

Eutychus

Not yelled at, but in a similar vein, I was cycling on the Springwater trail (rail to trail that used to be the Portland Traction Company) in Portland, OR, once when I passed a small boy and (presumably) his mother walking a pig--not a cute little Vietnamese mini-pig, but a 200-lb sow--when the woman leaned over and comforted the pig with these words: "It's all right, honey, he won't hurt you."

asynchronous13

While riding through an area in Atlanta notorious for crack-heads and *****s, I stopped for a red light. Just as the light turns green and I start pedaling, a lady on the far side of the intersection leans out from the sidewalk in front of me:

"I'll ride on your handlebars, sweetie!"
As I pass her I reply, "Nobody rides for free"

she laughed and laughed as I pedaled away :-)

Chop61

Yeah, those Atlanta adventures. I ride down Peachtree at 11 every night from work. I see a guy regularly at a bus stop and he frequently asks for a light. When I say I don't smoke, he says "Why not?"