Stupid things II
 

What's the stupidest thing a driver has ever yelled at you while you were out riding? I have to admit my "stupidest" was caused by actions rather than words. Early one morning about three years ago at Burleigh, some guy driving past in a car was waving one of those blow-up dolls out the window and yelling out something totally incoherent. If I hadn't been laughing so hard I might have replied with something along the lines of "Can I have here phone number?"

:D

Yesterday, I was jogging the last two miles home from work with my backpack on, same direction as the traffic. A car came from behind and rolled past me in my neighborhood, stopping about 50 feet ahead.

I thought it might be a neighbor offering me a ride. They waited for me to catch up. As I got to the open passenger window, I got ready to smile and say, "No thanks, I want to exercise."

Before I could say a word, two young men inside began to exclaim to each other, "AAAAHHH! Oh, God! Nooo!" :cry: :cry:
It's as if I had grossed them out or something.

They must have thought I was female from behind, but when I got close...

:D :roflmao: :beer: :crash:

Get a Harley!!!

At 5'8", 145 lbs., I am definitely not Harley-Davidson material.

"You look like a f*(! ing ambulance bro." When riding to work at midnight on a Friday with 2 red LEDs on scan at the back , well at least they saw me.:D

I had this redneck tell me to get the F*** off the road an I should be in school at this time of the day.I was 34 years old 5' 11 and 190lbs. with a full beard.(trimmed) I just wonder how much he had to smoke or drink that day.

What's the difference between a Harley and a vacuum? The location of the dirt bag.

I had a guy ask me who pays. He was chain smoking like Dennis Leary and kept asking me who pays. I wish I would of thought up something snappy like, "How much of this road is paid for by federal funding?".

"Get the F*&^ on the sidewalk!!" when I was riding in the bikelane.

While on a country ride I passed a dirty, shoeless, redneck walking in the ditch and smoking a cigarrette. As I passed he mumbled "Gawddam cyclists are going to take over the world"

As I am struggling up a short but very steep hill a SUV filled with teenagers stops and one yells out: "go home bicyle scum!"

I was speechless.

"Get out of the bike lane"

I kid you not.

I get that everyday.

The most stupid thing is when drivers or passengers lean out of their cars and yell while doing 80km/h and expect us to hear what they're saying.

That's some funny stuff people come up with, when they are in the bad mood, angry, drunk, high, ect... I have yet to experience the joy of yelling drivers myself! So far I’ve only had a few hundred of middle fingers. Do they count as stupid?:D

get off the road!!!

Eat Sh$t and die by a guy in a suit driving a nice late model Honda after I reminded him he was supposed to look both ways before he pulled out. The scariest was the woman who started to pull into the lane I was standing in waiting for the light to change since she didn't seem to see me I knocked on her window she started screaming at me so intensely I didn't understand a thing she said. After that I decided that the drivers in DT Seattle were just to stressed out to ride with and I altered my ride which was for the better made my commute longer and added a couple of hills (Yes I am crazy, but you all probably figured that out already :D )

"****ing Road hogs! Get the **** off the road!" he had been driving along behind 3 of us on a 2 lane section of road...plenty of room to go round, and then we moved across the lanes as it split to 4 lanes and he passed us to go onto the motorway and yelled at us. The two guys I was riding with were seasoned riders and they yelled back something like: "**** up and get out of your car you lazy slob!" and he got returned fingers as he disappeared up the on ramp.

Brendon
:beer:

I admit that I don't ride through downtown as much as I used to 10 or so years ago. Back then, I used to commute around with a drafting tube slung across my back like a LAW adorned with radioactive stickers. For some reason, cars always gave me a wide berth when I carried it. Nowadays though I'd probably have a bunch of NBC suited individuals armed with M-16s converging on me while a trio of UH-60s watched overhead.


The stupidest thing a motorist ever said to me occurred after I knocked on the passenger window of a BMW "minivan" at a stoplight in Redmond after she nearly curbed me by fully intruding into the bike lane a half mile prior. After informing her that she nearly killed me, she simply shrugged and said, "I'm sorry... I was trying to get my kids to stop fighting... you know you shouldn't ride your bike in the street... it's too dangerous."

I've never been yelled at, not even a finger. Well, I got some fingers, a few thumbs up while going up hill on tour. The car occupant had bikes on the roof rack.

The only negative things was being honked twice, and in one occasion, the driver had a point. I was riding in the street instead of the bike path.

This is a problem?

:confused:

The U.S. seems incredibly bike unfriendly....?

Never had anything abusive from anyone, whether I'm on the road, bikepath or footpath.

The bike path is next to the street, just above the curb. I should have been on it. It was at night too. It was an angry Honda Civic driver, followed by another one, so it explain things a little but I'd say he had a point, at least half a point.

Paul
Judging from your pitcher I wouldn't dare be abusive to you either :D

Seriously, here in Geneva we don't get that sort of sh*t. There are some really good cycle lanes and some glorified car parks but in 20 years commuting/trying to get rid of the beer belly, I have never been abused. Dirty looks have been exchanged on occasion but zthat's soon forgotten.

Hmm.....I think you're onto something.... other people uglify their bike to avoid attention... I uglify myself! :p

Erick, as a bike commuter day or night if I have the option I will ride the road. I am usually traveling faster than you should on a trail and the trail has no real control on it. They have etiquette suggestions and a speed limit but that is it. You should never think that you are not allowed in the road trail next to it or not. Do ride in the bike lane if they provide one. But otherwise its your road too.