my mother used to tell me she got me at the grocery store

Decades ago I used to ride with a guy in his 50s who was in great cycling shape. Great legs. He got propositioned more than once by teenage girls. "I want you inside me" comes to mind.

I've never gotten the insults. Somehow being a prop first and a cyclist second takes care of a lot of problems others face. (Think American football lineman, but uglier and meaner).

On the way home with my daughter one afternoon, we rolled pass a gaggle of teenage girls in our neighbourhood. They shouted "I love your car!".

Ooops... wrong forum.

I have a recumbent trike, outfitted with 2 high-powered LED lights. After whooshing past a couple pedestrians who were chatting as they ambled slowly across the street, I could hear behind me, "whoa! I thought that was a car!"

Awesome moment.

I used to have to wear slacks & tie on my commute to bagging groceries at Albertson's Market for $&*@%# $4.35/hr.
While waiting at a stoplight, some smirking old dude in a dilapidated pickup said, "Where's your buddy?" before the light changed. Took me a minute to figure out he was joking that I looked like a Mormon.



I've been shopping around for one of those badges so I can dress up as one for Halloween this year.

I doubt the doppler shift has much to do with it. Even if you're doing 30 mph, that's only a 4% change in pitch ...

Wind noise, that's a real factor.

(Hopefully you were kidding about the doppler shift ...)

not quite what this thread is asking for, but several years ago I was riding with a friend of mine through the hood right after we had dinner. Then my friend rose up off his seat and ripped THE loudest fart and exclaimed "OH MY GOD!". After the fact, we realized there was a dude walking down the sidewalk at that same moment. I can only hope that it made his day...it at least seems like something that would have made a funny story for when he got to where he was going.

Usually whatever people are saying to me is just garbled noise when I hear it, but I hear the occasional "I'm from some other country" when I mention to people we keep right in this country to a few of the confused people I meet on the MUP who are baffled by the concept of keep right.

My exwife and I had been married for years when we both admitted to having dreams about forgetting our kids on the bus on a regular basis, and if we had any others we forgotten about . We figured that must be a sign to not contribute to the overpopulation of the planet, and she got her tubes tied shortly after that.

Her....top, or the cars top?

Tuesday the wife and I did 59 miles on the SRT. On the trail at 9:30 in the morning and loading the bikes back onto the car at 9:30 p.m.
So there we were. Riding up out of Philly near Conshohocken. A guy on a road bike rolls past. Followed by a woman on another road bike. One water bottle between them She slows down and looks our bikes over. Topeak bags and pannier bags on the racks. She then proceeds to comment that we have too much gear on the bikes. We were carrying 4 extra frozen water bottles in the pannier bags along with a few items purchased in a store in Philly. She then picked up the pace to join the man she was riding with.
I just thought it funny. As if we did not know what we were doing.

The rumble of an engine from a large SUV, then woosh followed by splat of a Large McDonalds Cup filled with ice and coke as it sailed over my head landed in the ditch besides the road.

Group ride on a MUP, passing a woman with a chihuahua. Lead rider points and calls out, "Rat on the left." Woman looks up with anger in her eyes, "It's a DOG, *******."

Ok, that made me LOL for real.

me, too. nice one!

Yeah, chihuahuas are *******s as dogs go.

"Look mom! A 2-headed bike!' as we rode our tandem.

I asked the Dog, chihuahuas are not real dogs, nice snacks however.

I like Chihuahuas they taste good.

This is almost a word-for-word quote of a dude in a white pickup who slowed down to our pace to yell at us out the window. I was with a large touring group, and we were riding to the side of a narrow, two-lane (including the other direction) country road. He reportedly did this everytime he passed a group of our cyclists, since we were split up into several smaller groups over multiple miles.

I wouldn't necessarily say that it's "overhearing" if it's yelled directly at you, though.

I refer to them as "punt dogs" because they're about the size of a... oh, never mind.

Best line heard: On one ride I had a fairing on my recumbent, and as I started to pass a group of riders, someone yelled, "Car Back!" There wasn't a car back, only me...

I get that occasionally -- except that it's at night, when I've got my Magicshine on high ...

I don't think that I've ever heard anything very innovative. Most of what I hear is just some nonsense that I should go somewhere else because the roads are fornicating. Is that stupid or what?

Er, what? I don't get it . . .

I'm pretty sure he's referring to GET OFF THE F**KING ROAD! (The road is fornicating, get it?)

(Heh, BF censored "F * C K I N G" even with the star! I guess they feel like these folks who think that replacing swearing with punctuation still isn't OK.)

It doesn't matter how many times you do this, someone always brings them back.