CliftonGK1

Nope, no flashings so far... I did get mooned by a busload of highschoolers once, though.

This wasn't yelled at me, but it was the best question I've gotten in a long time. I was driving to work for the past two weeks, and I stopped at the video store near my old apartment. When I got to the register the girl asked me "When did you get a car?", not realizing that I've always owned a car, since I either walked or rode my bike there when I lived right across the street.

TwoShort

I've gotten "Nice ass!" several times; always from guys in pickup trucks. I've always wanted to catch them at a light and say thank you; maybe ask for their number. Note, of course, that while my bike-toned legs and pony tail certainly say "hot chick" from behind, from the front the "old hippie guy" truth is revealed.

vaticdart

He he... yeah, that happens to me when I'm behind another cyclist sometimes. If someone is going a little slower than I'd prefer, I'll hang back and not pass them if I think it's a woman and being behind her offers a pleasant view. Then, after a while, I get tired of going a bit slower and go ahead and pass them... and discover it's a skinny dude with long hair.

Farkleberrie

But funny because I'm a newbie cyclist, this will be my first time trying to commute. On Saturday I had just bought a new bike for commuting, a Surly Cross Check with albatross bars. Sunday I took it on it's first ride ever (and my first ride outside of the year) and a half mile from home some 10 year old kid yelled "Hey you look like a f******g f****t on that bike! Yeah you!" I was totally unprepared for it so I had no response. I'm guessing it was the bars and the fact that even though I'm female, I was bundled up and with my helmet on I guess I could pass for a guy.

James827

That's even funnier because you live in the People's Republic of Boulder.

murphsta

Calling Boulder the People's Republic is an insult to Berkeley. Trust me, I've lived in both places, and I lived in Boulder when it was actually a contender...

TwoShort

Actually, Boulder is really nice ever since all the smug fruitier-than-thou haters moved to Berkeley. Better biking too.

flipflop563

"It's all you, dude, go for it!" (Riding up a hill towards my house, with about 60 lbs of groceries on the rack, the guy was on a balcony on the second floor of some apartments)


It's all you dude.....haha that one made lol

M_S

Surreal. I have been mooned on the springwater, though no pigs.

Gibbygoo

Someone drove by and yelled the N word. (I'm white) I felt horrible.

toThinkistoBe

A week or two ago I was riding through a parking lot on my way to school and a guy yelled "Hey! you got a cigarette?!" After I responded he yelled/muttered something in ghetto-speak that I couldn't understand. It sounded like he was complimenting my bike, but that was probably just wishful thinking.

bernadettebikes

Once in Wisconsin I got "Whose your daddy!?!" from some kids playing in their front yard. In Southeast Asia we would get whatever English people knew, usually "Good Morning Teacher!" and once in Laos I got "Happy Thanksgiving!" (in March)

Scout!

Southern Louisiana at dusk. A porch full of beer drinkers recovering from a hard day fishing on the bayou. A hush falls over the conversation as I pedal up the grade in front of the house. Just as I'm almost out of earshot, these words reach me through the darkness: Mexico's the other way!

bikewidget

"Use the f***ing bike path."
There was a bike path, but I didn't feel like using it...

stockholm

"fatso! hey, fatso!" from drunk teenagers in a car passing me at 2 in the morning.

Which was kinda funny since I live in Stockholm, Sweden where we usually speak Swedish.

gharding

"Dude, you just got hit by a car!"

After getting hit by a car.

Thanks man. Didn't realize!

Gunmetal_Ghoul

Guy in a beat-up, lowered rice rocket: "YOU, SIDEWALK!"
My response:"Go scratch a speedbump!" (in a softer tone, trying to be nice)

damnable

"Beeeeeeeeppp"
That was from the driver.
Perhaps his horn was broken.

CB HI

Last week:

“Are you really proud of what you have done?”

Yelled by a Ford car salesman - after fencing got put up to keep him and the rest of his fellow Ford employees from driving and parking on the Pearl Harbor Bike Path.

“Looks like you need to keep riding several more miles.” Implying I was too fat for his taste - yelled by a fat Ford car salesman.

jpdesjar

the other night i was riding home from my buddys place and a van full of kids surprised me with a collective 'scream' as they zoomed by, i was a little startled but i probably didn't react like they wanted me to...it takes a bit more to scare me off of my bike

i think i was so focused on just riding i sort of blocked them out

nice try suckas!

mkoso

A beat up pick up made a right hand turn as I was approaching an intersection and a strange looking man with only a few teeth smiled and muttered out the window at me, "that ain't a motorcycle"

I laughed about it but I have NO idea what he meant.

dcbiker

Yesterday, a little girl (a tourist on the Washington, D.C., maill), was chasing a squirrel away. When I got near the girl and the squirrel, she yelled to me: "Hit it!!!!)

Steven Fong

A group of Canadian geese hanging out on the bike path hissed at me as I rode by today.

Does that count?

CB HI

"that ain't a motorcycle" = get the hell off MY road

bkrownd

Why don't this ever happen to me???