What was your first car screamer?
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I remember some gilrs shouting to me as I was climbing out of the saddle a big hill on my way home, they shouted: "keep going, you can do it!". It was cute. I had that hill conquered long before the girls came by on that day, but ever time I climbed it - that's what I was telling myself. Keep going, you can do it.
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I can't imagine a seasoned commuter who hasn't been told at least once, "Get off the road" no matter how bike-friendly the area.
Likewise, a seasoned tourer has to be told "Your CRAZY" at least once upon hearing the distance traversed on a tour. It's a right of passage. Smile... hold your head high... keep the lane... and know you're in the club.. :-)
Likewise, a seasoned tourer has to be told "Your CRAZY" at least once upon hearing the distance traversed on a tour. It's a right of passage. Smile... hold your head high... keep the lane... and know you're in the club.. :-)
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No screaming, and not a car, but i had a guy on a Harley pull up beside me and ask me for directions, which i gave to him, all the while going 20mph down the road!
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I had the most unexpected one a couple days ago. Not in a commute, but a simple ride a couple miles to the store. It was a pedestrian screamer. There's a short, two block area where I'm forced onto the sidewalk from a busy 4-lane road with no lane. There was a ped walking down the middle (of course) so I gave her a loud "Head's Up!" as I slowed down. As I passed her, she started running and yelling "God Loves You!" over and over at me.
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Had all sorts of heckles through the years...
One of my buddies passes me almost everyday, he bought one of those cycling noisemakers at a CX event. As he passes me he's always ringing that thing...I can hear him coming all the way down the road.
I do have the occasional friend who sees me and always makes it a point to tell me how cute I look in my cycling clothes.
One of my buddies passes me almost everyday, he bought one of those cycling noisemakers at a CX event. As he passes me he's always ringing that thing...I can hear him coming all the way down the road.
I do have the occasional friend who sees me and always makes it a point to tell me how cute I look in my cycling clothes.
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As in, what was yelled at you as they passed by? Mine what "You dropped your pocket"--think he was referring to my seatbag. Then after I'd turned back around and seen it was still there, he started laughing like a madman as they drove away. Was an SUV full of frat bros...wasn't even holding them up as I was on a nice, curb-separated path at the time.
All in all not much of an event I suppose, but still found it more unsettling than it really should have been.
All in all not much of an event I suppose, but still found it more unsettling than it really should have been.
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Mine happened maybe 3 months ago, back in the days when I had no backlight and helmet
I was getting back from who-knows where at around 12pm, and on the road home there is a small viaduct to cross.
On the right side there is the entrance/exit to the highway after a long curve (so no, no one will come out of there at 100km/h by surprise and hit me
) and on the left a brick wall separating the two ways
I went on the left side longing the brickwall to let the way for the highway free, but at some point a lady from a car was screaming at me "Get on the right side we don't see you you'll get hit!!!" with a voice of someone who saw a death. It's because the lighting isn't really good at that place and cars going at perhaps 60 km/h don't except to have a cyclist on their left at that place.
After that I installed a back-light and wear a helmet, you sometimes don't know how safe is what you're doing cause you don't know how the drivers are seeing you (I don't drive cars), especially when you do 4x km/day you're never too safe
I was getting back from who-knows where at around 12pm, and on the road home there is a small viaduct to cross.
On the right side there is the entrance/exit to the highway after a long curve (so no, no one will come out of there at 100km/h by surprise and hit me
) and on the left a brick wall separating the two waysI went on the left side longing the brickwall to let the way for the highway free, but at some point a lady from a car was screaming at me "Get on the right side we don't see you you'll get hit!!!" with a voice of someone who saw a death. It's because the lighting isn't really good at that place and cars going at perhaps 60 km/h don't except to have a cyclist on their left at that place.
After that I installed a back-light and wear a helmet, you sometimes don't know how safe is what you're doing cause you don't know how the drivers are seeing you (I don't drive cars), especially when you do 4x km/day you're never too safe
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Got my second screamer (that wasn't one of my idiot friends trying to say hi) one morning last week but he wasn't in a car. I was pedaling slowly out of the grocery store parking lot when a car alarm went off a few rows back. An old man with a Jack Russell Terrier walking on the sidewalk next to me began yelling at me for being loud. Well, I think that's what he was yelling about. He said, "Do you think that's funny, huh? I'll show you funny, I'll show you REAL funny-" and then I was out of earshot.
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The pistol fired over my head from a 10 yard dump truck with a dirty plate. I still remember the passenger laughing. Olympia Washington, spring of '74 on Kaiser Road south of the freeway. Of course I was a bearded longhair with a headband. Farm boy at heart.
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I had somebody yell at me as I was riding down a multi use path. "Watch out there's a bear by the bridge up ahead"
Bears are not too uncommon around here, so I kept ringing my bell as I rode down the path so as not to startle the bear.
Bears are not too uncommon around here, so I kept ringing my bell as I rode down the path so as not to startle the bear.
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