drunk ped rant
02-25-07 | 11:02 PM
#26
dutret has a posse
Joined: Jul 2006
Posts: 3,155
Likes: 0
From: washington dc
Bikes: IRO Angus 53, Marinoni Special 54, LMNO Custom Road Bike, Guerciotti TT, Late 60s Bottechia Road, Univega Via Montega beater/polo/rain bike.
that would be so annoying. i dont know if i would be angry, but annoyed definitely. you should have said hi to him.
the missile story was so awesome. turns out she had warrants in another state, so she didnt get to go home right away. ha.
the missile story was so awesome. turns out she had warrants in another state, so she didnt get to go home right away. ha.
02-26-07 | 01:10 AM
#27
i like bikes.
Joined: Feb 2007
Posts: 140
Likes: 0
From: 614, Ohio
Bikes: iro rob roy - ss cross, iro mark v pro - fixed, bianchi via nirone 7 - road, trek 1000 - 1x9 city bike w/ rack
i got it for riding an orange bike, ****ing OSU students don't know anything other than red and grey. but anyway, good job on keeping it cool, it's hard for me sometimes. last occasion ****ers followed me for a good half mile, trying to run me off the road and convince me pink shirts and popped collers are much cooler.
02-26-07 | 03:17 AM
#28
The Legitimiser
Joined: Jul 2005
Posts: 4,849
Likes: 6
From: Southampton, UK
Bikes: Gazelle Trim Trophy, EG Bates Track Bike, HR Bates Cantiflex bike, Nigel Dean fixed gear conversion, Raleigh Royal, Falcon Westminster.
I'm frequently amazed at the stories of aggressive behaviour I read here and in the commuting forum. I seriously just don't see any of that here in the UK. I don't ride in London often, but when I do, I also don't see it there. Perhaps I'm just lucky?
02-26-07 | 08:00 AM
#30
Tinkerer since 1980
Joined: Sep 2006
Posts: 922
Likes: 1
From: London
Bikes: Coppi racer, Old school BMX, some random a fixed wheel convertion
Originally Posted by h_curtis
Not all places are like that in the US. It is a big country. It is by far the most aggressive country I have been in however. Just look at what comes out of Hollywood and that says a lot. Read the magazines when you are at a checkout line in a grocery store and that also say quite a bit about the culture here. Pick up trucks, drunk college students, women on cell phones driving Excursions (huge SUVs) and the list goes on. I would love to ride around Europe on a bike and blend in better.
I will say, I do not take any crap from people. I ride by a very urban high school close by quite often and have had some students want to try and scare me while riding. They soon back down as I pick up speed and look them in the eye and ride towards them with meaning. I will indeed hit them if they don't move, because I really don't give a **** what happens. Maybe they know it when I look at them?
Better to keep your cool though. I wish I could, but I don't. Only back down once when a guy told me he was going to run me over with his car. I was run up on by some guy once at a stop sign. He hit my rear tire while I was waiting to cross the street at a stop sign. This was in a black neighborhood and all the people on the side of the street told the driver not to do that. I just calmly turned around and looked at him in the eye and then turned back around. Once again, I was in no mood and really didn't care what happened. Probably not a good idea. Some days if you are in a bad enough mood, it is hard to just back down, but it would be the smart thing to do.
I will say, I do not take any crap from people. I ride by a very urban high school close by quite often and have had some students want to try and scare me while riding. They soon back down as I pick up speed and look them in the eye and ride towards them with meaning. I will indeed hit them if they don't move, because I really don't give a **** what happens. Maybe they know it when I look at them?
Better to keep your cool though. I wish I could, but I don't. Only back down once when a guy told me he was going to run me over with his car. I was run up on by some guy once at a stop sign. He hit my rear tire while I was waiting to cross the street at a stop sign. This was in a black neighborhood and all the people on the side of the street told the driver not to do that. I just calmly turned around and looked at him in the eye and then turned back around. Once again, I was in no mood and really didn't care what happened. Probably not a good idea. Some days if you are in a bad enough mood, it is hard to just back down, but it would be the smart thing to do.
Back to the op, if you had done anything you would be mader as a fight would have ensued. I had drunken prick try and put me off the other day. I was riding towards a crossing (I had green) and three guys ranout with out looking, two ran out of the way and one tried to play chicken and was waving his can around. I was very calm (which is not me usually!) and just kept on rinding then for some reason as I passed him ans he jumped out of the way I ninja like grabed his can of beer and through it on the floor, I didn't look back but I could hear his mates laughing at him.
It was split second thing that I did not even think about, most unlike my normal self.
02-26-07 | 08:13 AM
#31
*
Joined: Jan 2007
Posts: 3,458
Likes: 2
Hey, I was a drunk ped in Blacksburg many times in the late 70's - had a great 4+ years there. I certainly don't condone your ped's actions. My bike made the trip back and forth to the New River many times, and also a loop N around B'Burg towards Salem. Nice hills around there. Do they still run the team race around the drillfield in the spring?
02-26-07 | 08:22 AM
#32
Thread Starter
...
Joined: Dec 2006
Posts: 114
Likes: 0
From: Blacksburg VA
Originally Posted by vpiuva
Hey, I was a drunk ped in Blacksburg many times in the late 70's - had a great 4+ years there. I certainly don't condone your ped's actions. My bike made the trip back and forth to the New River many times, and also a loop N around B'Burg towards Salem. Nice hills around there. Do they still run the team race around the drillfield in the spring?
02-26-07 | 08:25 AM
#33
roll'em high
Joined: Feb 2005
Posts: 2,391
Likes: 0
From: columbus, ohio
Originally Posted by spencedonfonix
i got it for riding an orange bike, ****ing OSU students don't know anything other than red and grey. but anyway, good job on keeping it cool, it's hard for me sometimes. last occasion ****ers followed me for a good half mile, trying to run me off the road and convince me pink shirts and popped collers are much cooler.
02-26-07 | 02:19 PM
#34
i like bikes.
Joined: Feb 2007
Posts: 140
Likes: 0
From: 614, Ohio
Bikes: iro rob roy - ss cross, iro mark v pro - fixed, bianchi via nirone 7 - road, trek 1000 - 1x9 city bike w/ rack
i laugh when osu students do it, except when the road is empty and all of a sudden i hear "get off the road bike ***." then i jump, then laugh more. they are great stories though.
03-03-07 | 10:03 PM
#38
hell's angels h/q e3st ny
Joined: Oct 2005
Posts: 1,582
Likes: 0
From: boston area/morningside heights manhattan
Bikes: surly steamroller, independent fabrication titanium club racer, iro jamie roy--44/16, independent fabrication steel crown jewel--47/17, surly karate. monkey (rohloff speed hub), unicycle
Originally Posted by shants
haha, college ******bags at osu definitely know how to be total assfacemasters. i've had a nice and varied assortment of things thrown/yelled at me. i just file away the gems for amusing anecdotes, try to ride fast enough to avoid the projectiles, and get a little doppler effect out of the incoherent drunken yells.
03-03-07 | 10:15 PM
#39
dig dig dig
Joined: Jan 2006
Posts: 878
Likes: 2
From: Chicago
Bikes: Full Fendered Bareknuckle, Faggin with 10spd Centaur, 1973 Raleigh 3spd Cruiser.
I had a snowball thrown at me a few days ago, I heard the characteristic "piffffffff" of it about 20 feet behind me. I said, "nice throw *****" and then they proceeded to call me a "effing Biztch" (-the z) I was not impressed with that comeback...
03-03-07 | 10:58 PM
#40
Senior Member
Joined: Aug 2004
Posts: 701
Likes: 0
From: SoCal - 909
Bikes: IRO Jamie Roy (fixed-gear commuter), Gary Fisher Rig 29er SS, Trek Madone 5.5, Specialized Allez Comp, Marin Mt. Vision Pro, Specialized M2 Hardtail, beater Nishiki fixed-gear conversion, Gary Fisher Rig 29er SS
Originally Posted by TheBrick
I have not been to America but from what you are talking about it dose not sound that different from the uk. There are a lot of pricks everywhere. It's similar to the fact that it is not difficult to be above average fitness or intelligence as the average is really low. Same with social behavior, the average is very low and money and education has little bearing on it, dipsite what many people say.
How can the average be "really low"? By definition "the average" is average. Wouldn't "really low" constitute one or two standard deviations below that?
</pedant>
03-04-07 | 12:30 AM
#41
Originally Posted by TrevorInSoCal
Sorry, but that makes no sense at all.
How can the average be "really low"?
How can the average be "really low"?
By definition "the average" is average. Wouldn't "really low" constitute one or two standard deviations below that?
</pedant>
__________________
Simplistic Ideologies R Coffins
Simplistic Ideologies R Coffins
03-04-07 | 12:57 AM
#42
Junior Member
Joined: Jan 2007
Posts: 19
Likes: 0
just spit on their car. most frat *******s will not do anything more than yell out the window. i'm more than happy to tell people what i think of their actions or stupidity. i ride an orange bike too, so maybe they'll mistake me for you and i'll break their window.
*edit-im an osu student an live on campus
*edit-im an osu student an live on campus
03-04-07 | 06:42 AM
#43
hell's angels h/q e3st ny
Joined: Oct 2005
Posts: 1,582
Likes: 0
From: boston area/morningside heights manhattan
Bikes: surly steamroller, independent fabrication titanium club racer, iro jamie roy--44/16, independent fabrication steel crown jewel--47/17, surly karate. monkey (rohloff speed hub), unicycle
i may have told this li'l ditty before but back in my runnin' days, a bud of mine was runnin' here outside boston and this dude threw a cup of somethin' at him and when the dude stopped for a stoplight, my boy jumps up on the hood, drops trou and takes a **** on the windshield, and runs off. dude's girlfriend was in the passenger seat and about passed out from the shock. my boy was pretty close to home so he could go tidy up quick.
true story.
true story.
03-04-07 | 07:44 AM
#44
Originally Posted by brunop
true story.
__________________
This is Africa, 1943. War spits out its violence overhead and the sandy graveyard swallows it up. Her name is King Nine, B-25, medium bomber, Twelfth Air Force. On a hot, still morning she took off from Tunisia to bomb the southern tip of Italy. An errant piece of flak tore a hole in a wing tank and, like a wounded bird, this is where she landed, not to return on this day, or any other day.
This is Africa, 1943. War spits out its violence overhead and the sandy graveyard swallows it up. Her name is King Nine, B-25, medium bomber, Twelfth Air Force. On a hot, still morning she took off from Tunisia to bomb the southern tip of Italy. An errant piece of flak tore a hole in a wing tank and, like a wounded bird, this is where she landed, not to return on this day, or any other day.
03-04-07 | 08:25 AM
#45
Dude.
Joined: Jan 2007
Posts: 400
Likes: 0
From: Philadelphia
Bikes: Surly Cross-Check, Specialized Langster Pro
Hah I had one walk around me while I was balancing at a red light last night and just say "Get the f*ck out of here, homie!"
heheh what? I just told him to piss off and he waddled away. Drunks are angry people.
heheh what? I just told him to piss off and he waddled away. Drunks are angry people.
03-04-07 | 12:16 PM
#46
i like bikes.
Joined: Feb 2007
Posts: 140
Likes: 0
From: 614, Ohio
Bikes: iro rob roy - ss cross, iro mark v pro - fixed, bianchi via nirone 7 - road, trek 1000 - 1x9 city bike w/ rack
Originally Posted by Torey
i ride an orange bike too, so maybe they'll mistake me for you and i'll break their window.
03-04-07 | 12:39 PM
#47
Senior Member
Joined: Jul 2005
Posts: 3,363
Likes: 0
From: NYC
Bikes: DW
Originally Posted by benoist
Tired from working for the past 8 hours, I begin my ride home on a beater that I threw together while my new paint job is curing. The beater has pink wrap so I expect a few yells from the drunk college students that roam from one depressingly crowded bar to the next-- nothing new, right?
As I get to the first intersection I realize that I'm going to have to trackstand while an entire crowd of drunk fraternity types pass by (the light was still red). One of the ****ers stops and stares for just a second before waddling up to my face; getting as close as he can. I can smell the cheap vodka and bad cologne as he claps his hands an inch from my nose in an attempt to simultaneously make me lose balance, my tempter, and prove the massive size of his cock.
I sat there so dumb struck, staring him down from where I still held my balance, tempted more than ever to just spit right into that **** eating grin-- the crowd moved on and his attention quickly wandered to some barely clothed woman shivering from the cold. I've never been so enraged that I just froze-- his action defied any normal confrontation I have ever experienced.
Downtown Blacksburg can be a real **** show some weekends.
As I get to the first intersection I realize that I'm going to have to trackstand while an entire crowd of drunk fraternity types pass by (the light was still red). One of the ****ers stops and stares for just a second before waddling up to my face; getting as close as he can. I can smell the cheap vodka and bad cologne as he claps his hands an inch from my nose in an attempt to simultaneously make me lose balance, my tempter, and prove the massive size of his cock.
I sat there so dumb struck, staring him down from where I still held my balance, tempted more than ever to just spit right into that **** eating grin-- the crowd moved on and his attention quickly wandered to some barely clothed woman shivering from the cold. I've never been so enraged that I just froze-- his action defied any normal confrontation I have ever experienced.
Downtown Blacksburg can be a real **** show some weekends.
just for thinking you "had" to trackstand you totally deserved that
03-04-07 | 01:31 PM
#48
Instigator at best
Joined: Jan 2007
Posts: 1,086
Likes: 0
From: Columbia, Missouri
Bikes: Motobecane Jury
Sometimes when folks get in the way, not paying any attention at all as they gab on a cell phone and walk along with their fat asses taking up half the path, it's soooooooooo tempting to clip their shins with my pegs ('cause I BMX)
They're dumb, and they meander:
Meanderthals
They're dumb, and they meander:
Meanderthals
