"Slow down! This is a neighborhood!"
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Just got home from my short 1.5 mile commute from work. On the way, down Kastle Road from Cooper Drive, some fellow yelled this from his driveway or front porch (didn't see him): "Slow down! This is a neighborhood!" Aboard my Bianchi Volpe with heavy 32c wheels, I was probably going 15-18 mph or so at best. In a 25 or 35 mph zone. Wearing a helmet. Niterider Flamethrower on its brightest setting illuminating the road very well. Red strobing tail light on. A messenger bag with a fairly hefty laptop in it. Not breaking any records here, folks.
I'm trying to let this go, but I can't. WTF? I wanted to stop and ask this guy what the problem was, but I didn't. Perhaps he thought I was a UK student as the campus is right there (folks who live near UK's campus generally don't get along with students). I just don't get why this guy would sound off at me when I was completely lit up and well under the speed limit.
I'm trying to let this go, but I can't. WTF? I wanted to stop and ask this guy what the problem was, but I didn't. Perhaps he thought I was a UK student as the campus is right there (folks who live near UK's campus generally don't get along with students). I just don't get why this guy would sound off at me when I was completely lit up and well under the speed limit.
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Some people are just cranks, what can ya do? I'm sure he didn't think twice before yelling at you. "Hmmm, good headlight.... wearing a helmet! nice.... Heyyyyy, cool throbbing on the tail light..... ah screw it, he still gets a yellin!"
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I'd guess that he yells at all the traffic going by, and seeing a good headlight assumed you were a motorcycle. By the time he realized you were a bicycle, he just shrugged his shoulders and waited for the next "idiot." (Would be his word, mind.)
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I usually mess up and say something stupid when somebody makes a remark I don't like. If someone said this to me I might respond with "but I thought it was a residential district!"*
The other night I took the kids trick or treating and this old guy opens the door and asks my 5 and 7 year old, "where do you live?" From the tone and demeanor I'm pretty sure it was attempt to screen the "outsiders" who come into our neighborhood because it may not be as safe to trick or treat in their neighborhood. I replied from the street, "we just live over at the corner of * and *. Y'all are welcome to come trick or treat at our house if you want to!"
*apologies to Richard Pryor
The other night I took the kids trick or treating and this old guy opens the door and asks my 5 and 7 year old, "where do you live?" From the tone and demeanor I'm pretty sure it was attempt to screen the "outsiders" who come into our neighborhood because it may not be as safe to trick or treat in their neighborhood. I replied from the street, "we just live over at the corner of * and *. Y'all are welcome to come trick or treat at our house if you want to!"
*apologies to Richard Pryor
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Originally Posted by Becca
I'd guess that he yells at all the traffic going by, and seeing a good headlight assumed you were a motorcycle. By the time he realized you were a bicycle, he just shrugged his shoulders and waited for the next "idiot." (Would be his word, mind.)
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I get mistaken for a motorcycle all the time... from no distance at all
I've been pushing to see if this cyclocomputer *really* goes up to 180 MPH
I've been pushing to see if this cyclocomputer *really* goes up to 180 MPH
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That's why I prefer the blinky lights in the city, front and rear. They know that you are a bike if you blink, at least here.
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Originally Posted by gcasillo
Just got home from my short 1.5 mile commute from work. On the way, down Kastle Road from Cooper Drive, some fellow yelled this from his driveway or front porch (didn't see him): "Slow down! This is a neighborhood!" Aboard my Bianchi Volpe with heavy 32c wheels, I was probably going 15-18 mph or so at best. In a 25 or 35 mph zone. Wearing a helmet. Niterider Flamethrower on its brightest setting illuminating the road very well. Red strobing tail light on. A messenger bag with a fairly hefty laptop in it. Not breaking any records here, folks.
I'm trying to let this go, but I can't. WTF? I wanted to stop and ask this guy what the problem was, but I didn't. Perhaps he thought I was a UK student as the campus is right there (folks who live near UK's campus generally don't get along with students). I just don't get why this guy would sound off at me when I was completely lit up and well under the speed limit.
I'm trying to let this go, but I can't. WTF? I wanted to stop and ask this guy what the problem was, but I didn't. Perhaps he thought I was a UK student as the campus is right there (folks who live near UK's campus generally don't get along with students). I just don't get why this guy would sound off at me when I was completely lit up and well under the speed limit.
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Originally Posted by vrkelley
Let me get this straight! He told you to slow down? Ha ha! He's was just raz'n you! tha'ts cool!
I agree with vrkelley. He could have been giving you a backhanded complement. Now if he was shaking his fist at the same time….well never mind my complement comment…LOL You should stop and talk then you’ll know for sure.
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Originally Posted by gcasillo
<snip> Perhaps he thought I was a UK student as the campus is right there (folks who live near UK's campus generally don't get along with students).<snip>
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I've been pushing to see if this cyclocomputer *really* goes up to 180 MPH
My wife has an open centrifuge for test tubes at work. The next time I buy a computer I should put a magnet in a tube and hold the sensor near it...
My wife has an open centrifuge for test tubes at work. The next time I buy a computer I should put a magnet in a tube and hold the sensor near it...
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Originally Posted by vrkelley
Let me get this straight! He told you to slow down? Ha ha! He's was just raz'n you! tha'ts cool!
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I had a similar experience. This guy came running out of his house screaming profanities at my while I whizzed by. He reminded me of one of those dogs that sits on the porch waiting for something to come down the road and then chases it to the property line.
I should have shouted back "Sit Ubu Sit"
I should have shouted back "Sit Ubu Sit"
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Of course, you could have turned around, said, "Do you want to see what fast is?" Then go far enough away to get up a good head of steam, turn around, and whiz by him at top speed. But that would not be nice.
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I was riding down a residential street about midnight last summer. Some guy yelled as I whizzed by, "Hey--ya got wheels on that thing!" I still don't know what he meant, but I almost fell off the bike laughing.
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People say the strangest things, that's for sure... Perhaps the guy realized you were a bike and is used to seeing the kids riding by at 4mph and here you go by at like 15mph and it just startled him? Either way, it's idiotic.
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Originally Posted by gcasillo
Just got home from my short 1.5 mile commute from work. On the way, down Kastle Road from Cooper Drive, some fellow yelled this from his driveway or front porch (didn't see him): "Slow down! This is a neighborhood!" Aboard my Bianchi Volpe with heavy 32c wheels, I was probably going 15-18 mph or so at best. In a 25 or 35 mph zone. Wearing a helmet. Niterider Flamethrower on its brightest setting illuminating the road very well. Red strobing tail light on. A messenger bag with a fairly hefty laptop in it. Not breaking any records here, folks.
I'm trying to let this go, but I can't. WTF? I wanted to stop and ask this guy what the problem was, but I didn't. Perhaps he thought I was a UK student as the campus is right there (folks who live near UK's campus generally don't get along with students). I just don't get why this guy would sound off at me when I was completely lit up and well under the speed limit.
I'm trying to let this go, but I can't. WTF? I wanted to stop and ask this guy what the problem was, but I didn't. Perhaps he thought I was a UK student as the campus is right there (folks who live near UK's campus generally don't get along with students). I just don't get why this guy would sound off at me when I was completely lit up and well under the speed limit.
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Originally Posted by digs
I get mistaken for a motorcycle all the time... from no distance at all
I've been pushing to see if this cyclocomputer *really* goes up to 180 MPH
I've been pushing to see if this cyclocomputer *really* goes up to 180 MPH
However, I don't think I've been mistaken for a motorcycle...yet. I *have* been recognized in pitch dark by people who know I ride...
(I have two halide lights - blowtorch & lupine, a 3 LED blinkey, and a Bisy attached to my Schmidt hub dynamo)
ride on!
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If it happens again stop and moon the guy. Just don't be wearing that pink jersey when you do that -- he might get the wrong idea.
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Originally Posted by Moonshot
The other night I took the kids trick or treating and this old guy opens the door and asks my 5 and 7 year old, "where do you live?" From the tone and demeanor I'm pretty sure it was attempt to screen the "outsiders" who come into our neighborhood because it may not be as safe to trick or treat in their neighborhood.
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Originally Posted by gcasillo
...some fellow yelled this from his driveway or front porch (didn't see him): "Slow down! This is a neighborhood!" Aboard my Bianchi Volpe with heavy 32c wheels, I was probably going 15-18 mph or so at best.
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