Did you Google that In The Heat of the Night?

I had a kit yell LAAAANCE Armstrong! at me a week ago, given, I'm not riding the same brand of bike, and was hauling a trailer, but it's the thought that counts!

Today the group I was with rode by a bunch of kids, and as I passed a kid looked at my bike and said "Specialized". Pretty big word for a little kid, look for him at the national spelling bee in a few years I guess.

I was fighting up a hill today; a truck passed me and the guy yelled "One more time!"...

...which I assume is a rather good Lance reference. I'm just sad I couldn't give a wave or a thumbs-up, as the hill was taking rather a lot of my attention.

I'm only 26 and I recognize him from All in the Family and In the Heat of the Night. But then I'm kind of a nerd. But really, who hasn't heard of or seen Archie Bunker?

The closest run-in I've had lately is 3 big F-250-class trucks (two Fords and a Dodge) all together buzzing me while I was riding along the shoulder of a 55mph highway (2 lane). Their mirrors probably would have cipped me if I'd not been in the drops. Stupid rednecks. There was no oncoming traffic, and the lanes aren't that narrow. They could have given me a foot and stayed well inside their lane. No shouting though. I guess that was nice of them.

Haha, I got that too. I was cruising the neighborhood, and some guy yells, "Lance Armstrong!"

Most of my driver encounters are of the "hey baby" sort, though I've been heading somewhere in a hot hurry, I've had drivers holler "slow down" at me. If traffic is slow enough, I'll holler back, "are you kidding me?"

My most recent weird encounter was with some punk kid who was on foot with a bunch of his buddies who were just sitting around on Wal-Mart Special soft-tails, hanging around. Punk kid shouts, "Gimme yo ass."

I shout back, "No, I'm using it!"

I check my rearview mirror to see his buddies all high-fiving each other.

Normally, I don't have a comeback at hand to save my life, but this time, yessss. I made my own day.

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The little kids in yards around here always wave and sometimes yell "hey! hey!" when I go by.

I had this one lady in a yellow convertiblish corvette yell at me telling me I could do it and she believed in me while I climbed a hill :p

I usually get the "Hey Lance!" from my friends whenever I go over for poker night.
But the last time I got a comment while on the road was last summer. I was in the North Carolina mountains, and pushing it hard to get back to the cabin. I was about halfway up a decent sized mountain, with about 7 miles to go, when a guy on a Harley passed me going the opposite direction.
He yelled out, "Man...you've got a loooong way to go!" I just had to wave and laugh, despite the agony!

I hadnt my weirdest comment ever the other day, it was about 10pm and i was riding my old junk bike to the video store, got the video and came out to find it had a flat (not too suprised since i thought it had felt like it was going down on the way there) So i start walking back home on the footpath, which was about a 1.5km walk. So im just walking along just thinking about what i needed to do the next day when some guy yells out "Pros wear helmets mate, *undecipherable*" :eek:

I get the impression he was a cyclist as well and had me picked as some fool who had no idea about safety but thats his choice to make :rolleyes:

I was just shocked and couldnt believe the irony that the one of the few times i didnt need to be wearing a helmet by law and yet that was the time someone decided to abuse me about it.

I wasnt even on the bike at the time!
I think there are some people i will just never understand :D :rolleyes:

Jeeeesh Edith!

We get the "Hey Lance!" on occasion...problem is we're riding a tandem with a Burley Piccolo (magnificently equipped with long pink tassels from our 6 yr old niece's Piccolo hand grips) attached...all three seats are occupied!

I guess they figure we're a closely packed "break-away?!"

I got a "Go, Lance, Go!" last summer from some teenager hanging out the passenger window. I don't even like Lance.

Also in Ohio, and I've gotten all sorts of interesting statements recently.

"That is some steed!!! Dude that's a steed!"

"Ohhh, that bike look familiar" (then when I laughed and kept going) "Shut up. Ain't no one want your crummy-ass bike" (Grammatical errors verbatim)

and my all-time favorite, from an African-American woman

"Ride your bike in Africa, white people!!!"

Haha, that reminds me, I'm tearing up a hill right exiting out of Startsville and this big Red Pickup on big bad ass tires, raised 2+ feet off of the ground passes me and then starts to slow down. Well I see this as an opportunity to race with it so I lean forward and do one of my mad bursts. So pretty soon we are side by side going up the hill and then I notice the window is open and this lady leans out and she yells what I think is something like "Are you wearing boxers".

A little off topic. One time I showed up at the theatre I work with for rehearsal. But that night rehearsal was at our 2nd location. I wasn't the only one who made the mistake. Riding to the other location there is a bike-path short-cut that allows me to get there faster than people driving sometimes. On this occasion two guys in a car on the way over had this conversation. "Wouldn't it be funny if Greg beat us there?" "He won't beat us there. He's not Louis Armstrong."

I beat them there.

I think the "Lance" thing is on par with calling some Asian guy "Jackie Chan" or something.

Kinda funny though...