Originally Posted by lhendrick

I was yelled at while touring across Europe this past Summer. In Austria on a bike path, I was flying along to get into Linz (downhill of course) on my fully loaded touring steel beast after 60 miles of sweating, when I heard from behind, "Achtung !!" - I nearly crashed laughing, and screamed back "Zeig Heil !!" as I moved over to let them pass on their carbon panzers. The very proper Austrians were not amused. Was I wrong? Ha! God bless the bastids', they make some great bikes and bike paths, but they still think they won the war.