We were driving at 65 MPH on the relatively-deserted freeway near Klamath, California, very close to this point:



and I saw a touring cyclist going the other way, walking his bike up the hill. I was looking at him and thinking that the hill wasn't so steep. The he stops and looks right at us, and does a very showy pantomime of someone smoking a cigarette or joint.

Was it:

1. Do you have any cigarettes or joints?
2. I'm walking up the hill because I'm a smoker.
3. He was just goofing around.

He's high?

Was the gesture thumb/index, or index/middle fingers?

He's taking a break, but is still moving forward on his trip...

Most likely- he was saying he had just smoked "something" and it had temporarily put him off his stroke.
He felt the need to explain why he was WALKING- when he had a bike.

Drama queens are everywhere! Did you tip his performance?

#2 , or maybe he was just trying to be funny.

Maybe he was commenting on your blazing speed, as in "you're smokin'".

{[<^^^>]** This post was deleted because it was rude, crude and totally uncalled for.

Gawd, I'm disgusting and I have a perverted mind. Ignore this post completely.

Sorry to have wasted valuable minutes in your precious day.

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Doesn't this thread belong in the two-ring forum?

ha hah.... if he was putting his thumb and forefinger together like somebody smoking a joint..like an "OK" sign it was number 1, "hey...you got a joint?". No surprise he was walking up the hill . I guess it's not a shock that a touring biker might smoke although it's a pretty interesting incongruity. I know a sports oriented fellow that eats brownies. I'm waiting till I learn I have 6 months to live due to cancer. I'm going to just dive right into meth and heroin.

I tell my friends the same thing.

I'll give the guy the benefit of the doubt. I smoked for forty-six years, have fairly mild COPD, but there are times I have to dismount and walk slowly long enough to catch my breath. Tain't no fun, neither!!

I would like to think he was being friendly and offering to roast a doobie with you. As we used to say back in the 70's " A friend with weed, is a friend indeed!"

Just a bit south of this incident, I encountered a large group of touring cyclists at a hiker/biker campground. It made for an interesting night when the raccoons stole their pot brownies. We had stoned raccoons falling out of the trees all night long.

Probably just being friendly; that's California. I'd go with that.

Naah.

When I got in over my head earlier this year, a fellow travelor looked at me and said, "Is this route ever going to end? I'm smoked."

*speaking in Inspector Cluseau's accent* It is that simple, my friends.

Maybe he needed toliet paper.

Some sort of urban street gang gesture, the meaning of which no one knows?

Blaze up and enjoy that decent descent....while freaking out unnecessarily if your brakes will actually work.