im going to report the op for stalking

Some guy yelling out of a car at a girl riding a bike in the middle of the night by herself, is not cool or funny.

i can't imagine why she would have suspected you were a ******.

You should've crashed. She would've seen it in her rearview and come back to check on you and she'd have been putty in your hands.

aaahh... the intricacies (and politics) of communication... 8D

You wouldn't have said boo if it had been a guy, 'nuff said.

bif tannen killed this thread a lifetime ago.

I saw you at the v drome two weeks ago saturday.

The blue basso is sweet.

Anybody thinking that was even remotely funny, and starts a thread to complain, has some issues. I think she should have flipped you off. Maybe she wanted to, too, but wasn't sure what kind of a deranged idiot you were.

A rather delusional one, I think.

why not a simple "NICE TITTIES!!!"

the one time i had a pleasing experience with a motorist while riding is when a bunch of guys pull up beside me and start pacing me and out of the back window one of them hands me a Gatorade, that and kids in the back of volvos make me happy

What is this "eight d" of which you write?

I'm sure you'd do that in SF. I can remember getting yelled at for being a breeder. Seriously.

I already stated I was talking before I knew she was a she.

I wasn't complaining. I found the reaction strange, and wanted to get an opinion (or two) about the whole incident. Even if I was complaining, isn't that what an internet forum is for?

You seem to have confused sarcasm with irony. But wait, did you really, or is this some intricate plot to belittle me further (much as I seem to deserve it for asking about a derailleur)? Damn, I just don't know. Nor do I care anymore.

The only yell out the window moment that I really appreciated was when some guy yelled that my money was about to fall out of my pocket, which it was. That guy save me from losing like 40 bucks. And at first I didn't understand what he was saying and was about to flick him off because I thought he was taunting me. I'm just so used to ******bags yelling from cars that I wasn't expecting a good samaritan.

How was she supposed to know you weren't being a smartass? I wouldn't say it was ironic wither, unless you were holding a lost deraileur at the time and happened upon the woman who lost it.

where exactly are you riding? Didnt expect to see a post like this from phila.

then again...i'm not a she...

can everyone just turn this into a thread where we exchange stories about nice things passing motorists have done for us?

once the red bull-mobile hooked me and my roommate up with some free drinks while passing us in traffic.

Had you shouted that out the window of a car at me I would have mistaken your irony for sarcasm too. See not all ironic questions are funny. I don't think "where's your derailer?" is a funny ironic statement, so I would have to assume you were either trying to be funny, and failing miserably, or you were being a ******. Given the fact that most people shouting things from cars at cyclists are in fact being ******s that is the safest bet.

So with that in mind, if you're going to try to say something to a cyclist, and you want it to be well received, remember they will probably be taken by surprise, and won't have much time to recover and figure out your intentions. Keep is simple, so there is no room for misinterpretation. "Hi", "Nice Bike" "Nice Night for a ride" are all pretty safe. Don't even TY to be funny unless you're pretty sure what you are about to say actually IS funny. If you're pretty sure "where's your derailer?" is a funny comment to make to a singlespeeder, I'd avoid humor altogether.

I had a white van pull alongside me (note to non UK readers - this is what builders and delivery drivers usually use to try and kill cyclists in the UK), keep pace with me for a bit and then a guy leaned out the window and shouted "******** nice one mate - you're doing 25 miles an hour!". Then they drove off.

That was cool.

Yelling out of cars aside, I find it hard to believe that "where is your derailleur" could be construed as an insult to a single speeder. She presumably knew she had no derailleur and wanted her bicycle that way, or it would have had one. It would be like someone yelling "where is your third wheel" to me. I don't want three wheels on my bike, if I did, I would. Oh wait, that would be a ****** bag thing to yell (although still not insulting). See, I do think about things sometimes.

Not insulting to suggest you should be riding a tricycle? See some people would consider that implication an insult along the lines of "get off the road ******". Stick with "hi" it's very difficult to misinterpret.

How do you figure?

Maybe she missunderstood you and thought you said, "Your ass looks huge on that bike."