Saying that your bike is hotter than you is still implying that you're hot.

Just not as hot.

One of the streets in the entertainment district downtown used to have bike lanes running up and down the middle of the street rather than at the curbs. There are many reasons why this isn't a great idea but one of the interesting differences is that when you're sitting at an intersection you're only a couple feet from the driver's window of the nearest car instead of the passenger window. This lead to a lot more comments, both good and bad I suppose, but I only remember the good ones. It helps that most of the comments came in the evening when it was dark. ;-)