I was riding home last night on my roadie when I rode past a lad on a BMX. As I rode past he called me "gangster" (probably spelt gangsta these days?)
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Strangest thing you have been called on a bike?
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As I was riding in this morning, one of the Hulme hippies ran past in the other direction and shouted "SENSI!!!!" really loud in my face.
I believe this is reference to a potent strain of marijuana. Why he was shouting at me, I have no idea
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You sure it wasn't something else ending in er?
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binners - did you still have the "stop me and buy one" sign switched on ?
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A crappy motorist once called me a "Yorkshire Pudding".
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Nothing out the ordinary, usual pleasantries like **** once or twice. Not an imaginative lot round my way i guess.
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{banned for this} who the {swear filter evasion tactic} do you think you are,you nearly killed my dog! ect... lots
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Billy Elliot. Quiet street early in the morning on the way to work a while back, shouted out of a white-van. Nobody else around. It took a while, but I guess it was a ref' to a 'male' in tights! Made me smile.
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Had a claxon blasted at me by some chav knob a few weeks back. Couldn't hear it that well as my iPod was too loud.
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Actually, this weekend was quite amusing - 3 of us stood checking a map and this kid about 9 or 10 on a bike too small for him rides up ...
"Nice helmets, GAYS" he shouts, sprinting off. We p1ssed ourselves!
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Rather nice looking young lady in the passenger seat of a Beetle, about 15 years ago shouted 'Lucky saddle!' at me. Every time I get abuse from some eejit (Usually shouting from the passenger side of a ropey Nova 'round this way) I think of that lass and maintain my state of zen clam as a result.
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I don't get called anything, could be something to do with me being so big....
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someone called me 'monkey bum' once!!!
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I got "Nice bum" from some girls, when I was cycling through town.
It cheered me up.Posted 3 years ago # -
skillful
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A couple of odd ones, both at around 7 am on a Sunday, as I headed out to the hills:
1. Chavs drinking beer outside a house: "You're up early"
2. Chavs - clearly still pilled - leaning out of a mini cab window: "Arrrgh! You beast"
It must be a trait of the lower orders that they have a straneg desire to vocalise their limited cognitive functionality....
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I was once told by a woman in a car that she could see my bum. It wasn't until I got home that I realised she actually could see my bum as my lycra had worn through
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A "f##king tresspasser" whilst riding on the road, by some knob who promptly slid his volvo off the road on some ice!
A very odd encounter.
Shropshire farmers eh! you can't beat a six fingered banjo player!Posted 3 years ago # -
Rode up the wrekin on Christmas morning, pass a collection of barbour clad rural folk. One middle aged woman says - 'Oh look, a lycra lout!'
I was going at a snails pace, what with the climb and a serious hangover, and just said 'What a rude thing to say on Christmas day'. She was embarrassed and said sorry.Posted 3 years ago # -
Oh and i beleave that calling some one "gangsta" is a mark of respect.
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A "f##king tresspasser" whilst riding on the road, by some knob who promptly slid his volvo off the road on some ice!
A very odd encounter.
Shropshire farmers eh! you can't beat a six fingered banjo player!
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Got called a "****" by a female who was dog walking. I was so shocked that I laughed and then got a torrent of abuse
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We had a good one on a night ride last year. We'd stopped for liquid refreshment at a local hostelry, when some girls, clearly on a hen do, simply shouted "OI!!" then showed us their norks.
That kind of thing never happens in real life normally
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Fit. This baffled me somewhat......
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Strangely I find its usually me calling everyone else names. Especially when coming into work, there's a roundabout where I always catch a numpty who almost hit me. It must be hilarious for the walkers listening to me shouting every other day!
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When I used to have long blonde hair and look a bit effeminate*, I often got dodgy geezers shouting 'can I sniff your seat luv'.
Joe
*as opposed to my current intimidating he-man short hair look
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Rode past a local jump spot the other week on the tandem and had a yoot shout "yo, you sickers" at us while doing some kind of gangsta hand signal.
Also had a lad shout "wow a two legged bike" at us a couple of days before.
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I was overtaken on my comute through London by a bloke on a full road bike (in lycra) whilst struggling up hill from a set of traffic lights on my singlespeed. As he passed he called out "Hurry up Mr Arbuckle"
I am assuming he was calling me fat (and not refering to the rape and manslaughter cases - honestly I never done it!). I know I could lose a few pounds but it was mid winter so I was all covered up with a big fleece and I have comically skinny calves (the only bit of me I was brave enough to show off in the cold).Oh and I caught him at the next set of lights and took a tow off him all the way in which REALLY annoyed him
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'Fu<kin edjits' by an estate worker, while we descended the open moor singletrack, whilst they were heather burning the place.
Schmokin!
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When I was a kid growing up in Brum, the favoured expression to shout at cyclists was " Get off and milk it "
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joe marshall, i have long hair and (according to my wife) nice legs(in a slim tanned sense). loads of learing/comments from blokes in vans as they overtake and quite a surprised look when my stubbley face turns round.
also my commute has a alpine style switchback climb, which often gets,'wanna lift', 'go on my son'(when theyre clear on my my gender) and once 'you dick' which on balance held some truth when i thought about it. hot day, long climb, grown man on a bike...Posted 3 years ago # -
When we descended Snowdon last year we were called "Murderers" by some crazed female rambler...
(I think one of my mates past within about 2 metres of her and scared her a bit)
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"Prick" or "****" are the most original and witty suggestions the locals can muster
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local chavs seem to like to shout "cycle"
whether this is an instruction, or a bit of "say what you see" remains a mystery!
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i got 'oi who do you think you are, streethawk?'
as i commuted home past a pub at night, i think it was the LED lights, helmet gloves etc
it annoyed me for a moment and then decided i quite liked it really
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