The few times folks have yelled negative comments and/or thrown an object, I was between towns touring with a fully loaded bike. In Delaware, on a wide road with a wide shoulder (which we were on), teenage boys in a pickup threw a soft drink bottle at my daughter and me on a tandem. Fortunately, they missed.

On another tour, up in South Dakota, some drunks in a car yelled obscenities at my colleague and me, but that was the last we saw of them.

More often, I have had folks slow down, or even stop, to say nice things about my two daughters and me on the triplet, or to ask about the recumbent. Interestingly, the folks that seem to "dis" me/us whether on the triplet or 'bent are the "serious" road bike riders (wannabe racers), who, I guess, feel that I am / we are not serious enough.