runner pat

No, it's the assumption that my disability is a punishment from God and because I'm out riding a handcycle, I'm not accepting the punishment.

monsterpile

One time my wife and a friend of ours were going to walk downtown. My ankle hurt so I decided to cruise with them on my folding bike instead of walk. A few blocks from my house some old guy on the lawn curses me out for riding on the sidewalk. That was just the beginning of an interesting ride/walk.

genec

Just after I finished moving left across three lanes of traffic into a left turn pocket... a motorist and I managed to have a bit of a conversation as the driver was in the straight through lane waiting for the light to change and I was just to the left of him in the left turn lane... waiting for my green.

Driver: "You shouldn't do it that way."

Me: "Oh really, how should I change lanes...?"

Driver: "You should ride like that." (driver points to curb hugging cyclist)

Me: "How do I make left turns?"

Driver: "Oh that's your problem."

eddubal

If heaven's filled with miserable people like that, I'll take Hell any day!

AlmostTrick

“You’re not a car” -After I properly and legally took my turn at a four way stop.

“Get on the sidewalk ******” -With no sidewalks around for miles, and me being a heterosexual wearing regular street clothes.

Truck driver: “It’s safer to ride on the shoulder” (very calmly) -Then after I explained that the shoulder in question was only a couple hundred feet long AND I was preparing to make a left turn, I was told “Well, it’s still safer for those couple of hundred feet, and I know because I’m a professional.”!

Another driver calmly telling me I should be riding mere inches from the curb because: “I’m a lawyer and I know the law”

Andy_K 

Eek! That's even worse theology than taking the wool/cotton blend thing too seriously. These people should really read their Bibles once in a while -- or at least have someone with a clue explain the broad outline to them.

atbman

I would have thought that this was unnecessary as wearing such material while diving would serously incline one to hypothermia in most sea conditions.

On the other hand, if divers means different, then, as people who mix lycra with articifical chamois material, he's right - we are eternally damned.

On the other hand again, perhaps, as cycling inclines us to experience an "endorphin high", perhaps we too will experience the rapture on the day of judgement. This is, naturally, a great motivator to get out and ride every day so as to ensure that we are in this state of grace on that terrible day. And, if we hide at the back, perhaps He, She or It won't notice

Andy_K 

I'm pretty sure that the 70's gave us a preview of the special level of hell that awaits all of us who have ever worn polyester.

HappyStuffing

I'm jealous. How do i get this reaction?

I only get the occasional **** you! from dudes, and i'm fairly certain i don't want to do that with them.

HappyStuffing

I would have liked reply, "Did you figure that out all by yourself?"

cellery

I almost posted the same thing before I saw yours. It was definitely the stupidest thing said to me by a lady in a minivan I could hear yelling it all the way from the far left lane of a six lane road!

Carley P.

"Get on the sidewalk!"

"This is a road, not a bike lane!"

A man in a dually truck hung out of the window and yelled "Hippies!" to a friend and me.

Another friend and I were riding when a car full of girls pulled next to us and said "You're on a bike and you have a beard. I love you!"

Someone also threatened to put a bullet in my head after telling me to wear longer shorts.

Isn't everything yelled out of a car window stupid?

"All of these scrubs hanging out of the passenger side of their best friend's ride trying to holler at me." Does anybody else remember that late 90's song by Brandy, I think?

L.L. Zamenhof

hubcap

I have heard it all.

Everything from the well placed insults to the "U R so hot, please F me" type of comments.

genec

Probably, but I have to tell you that when I am the passenger and I see a cyclist that is obviously in the wrong (salmon or ninja) I want sooooo much to give them a piece of my mind. But of course I restrain myself... as they only thing they would hear is some garbled stuff from "some idiot in a car."

unterhausen

I was riding past a kid that was going in tiny circles in his parent's yard on his dirt bike. He yelled out, "my bike is better." I guess he'll never know.

bhop

Same thing happened to me once. I don't think they were drunk though... only I won.

ok.. it was just because they got stuck behind a long line of stopped cars at the next intersection while I passed them all, but I still consider it a win.

B. Carfree

My sister-in-law had a woman scream at her because, as they approached an intersection that the motorist wanted to turn right at, my SiL did not signal her intention to continue straight. My SiL calmly asked her what the hand signal for continuing straight is. That just got the motorist angrier.

mtalinm

a van was blocking the intersection and I couldn't get through. so i motioned to him to move so I could get by (walk sign was on).

He yelled back "But you're just a bicycle!"

A sphincter says what??

QuakerProf

I use a good number of lights on my bike, and when I was passed by an SUV with the windows open on a mild day in December, I heard a child yell "It's Santa!!" in great excitement to her mother/father. This wasn't stupid, just funny.

In general, I get the best comments from kids playing on their driveways; usually positive, like "nice bike!" and so on. The kids get "green" education in school nowadays, so they are often much cooler with cyclists than their parents.

AlmostTrick

It's a win. Especially if you rode past them with no hands on the bars while playing air guitar!

woodway

Heading home from work and stopped at a red light a few blocks from my office. It's dark and it's raining like hell. To my right is a right turn lane. A car pulls up in the right turn lane, stops, and the drivers window comes down. I recognize a co-worker who says to me "it's raining, aren't you going to get wet?".

twobadfish

"Didn't you see the road closed sign?"

ws.golfer

As I was huffing & puffing up this long hill on my commute home, the passenger of a passing car leans out and yells "pedal faster!". I laughed out loud . If I could, I would!

jrich179

You should have cursed him for being on his lawn