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?)
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
You sure it wasn't something else ending in er? 😉
binners - did you still have the "stop me and buy one" sign switched on ?
A crappy motorist once called me a "Yorkshire Pudding".
Nothing out the ordinary, usual pleasantries like **** once or twice. Not an imaginative lot round my way i guess.
{banned for this} who the {swear filter evasion tactic} do you think you are,you nearly killed my dog! ect... lots 😉
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.
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.
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!
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.
I don't get called anything, could be something to do with me being so big....
someone called me 'monkey bum' once!!!
I got "Nice bum" from some girls, when I was cycling through town.
It cheered me up.
skillful
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....
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 😳
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!
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.
Oh and i beleave that calling some one "gangsta" is a mark of respect.
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!
😆 8)
Got called a "****er" by a female who was dog walking. I was so shocked that I laughed and then got a torrent of abuse 😯
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
Fit. This baffled me somewhat......
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!
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
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.
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
'Fu<kin edjits' by an estate worker, while we descended the open moor singletrack, whilst they were heather burning the place.
Schmokin!
😆
When I was a kid growing up in Brum, the favoured expression to shout at cyclists was " Get off and milk it "
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...
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)
"Prick" or "****er" are the most original and witty suggestions the locals can muster
local chavs seem to like to shout "cycle"
whether this is an instruction, or a bit of "say what you see" remains a mystery!
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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I was walking the dog on the tow path the other day, loads of people around. A couple of beer bellied chavs on bikes started shouting some "witticisms" at the canoeists - "Do a 360" etc etc. Having got everybody's attention, the lead chav was clearly delighted with himself and had a big smirk on his face.
The canoe instructor then replied "you give us a wheelie first then, you fat c*nt", everybody in earshot was cracking up. The chavs took it in good part, it was nice to see people giving and receiving a good slagging without it getting aggressive.
Out on the tandem folk seem to think that they need to pass comment.
We get " shes not pedalling at the back" virtually every ride.
The funniest tho was passing a bunch of builders who broke into a chorus of "Daisy Daisy"* - why on earth did they know that song?
Chavs reactions are often funny - they start of laughing then clock the build of the bike - "cor its got Bombers" and we often get real respect from them. Rather amusing.
* for those who don't know it:
Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer do
I'm half crazy all for the love of you
It won't be a stylish marriage
I can't afford a carriage
But you'll look sweet upon the seat
Of a bicycle built for two
I get often get 'your wheels are going around' which is odd
I got "ooooh that one's a GIRL" a few years ago, made me chuckle.
Given the fact that i am very over weight i often get the local chavs yelling the usual fat related abuse from their vauxhall corsa/nova or what ever the swilly defence regiment uses these days, i just cary on end enjoy the ride.
Simon
"You dont ride in the kerb you are a bad cycilst"...
It's very hard to get me speechless... This one did
also once on my local, riding up to a group who were resting on a fleet of tricked out 6" bouncers in baggies and pisspots. shouted 'hardtail alert!' and whizzed off down the hill before id even had a chance to say hello. in my mind they were scarred of my obvious prowess and had to run with their 6" coils between their legs. more likely i would have got in the way. either way 'tossers' wasnt far from my lips..
Grovelling up a climb a few years back I had a white van man lean out of the window and bellow 'Go on Lance!' at me. I was quite chuffed, but I don't think I looked quite as comfortable as a multiple TdF winner at the time ...
... on the other side of the coin, a skip wagon driver hailed me with 'people get killed on this road' as he did his damnedest to swerve and run me over. Only problem I've had on that stretch in 3 years daily use ...
On a group ride, 16 of us I think, we had to go through a rather jolly Leeds sink estate called Middleton in order to link up the ride. 3 chavs were sat on a sofa, in a front garden, surrounded by broken fridges/cookers etc. One of them gets unsteadily to his feet, taking care not to spill his can of Fosters or knock the ash off his ciggie, walks to the edge of the wall-less/hedgeless garden and yells 'Look at 'em on their ****in' bikes! Gerra life!'
Er, we've got one thanks, how about you?
I get often get 'your wheels are going around' which is odd
I've had "Your back wheel's chasing you"
Had various kids shout 'sic' as there are some nice manual-able road sections
that keep me entertained on my ride home.
Thats usually followed by 'how much is you bike worth'
Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer do
I'm half crazy all for the love of you
It won't be a stylish marriage
I can't afford a carriage
But you'll look sweet upon the seat
Of a bicycle built for two
Thats not the version i know!
On one of my epic all dayers last summer, someone in a group i passed on numerous occasions said i must be very fit...and continued you look very fit..then winked....
He was only about 20yrs old 😯
Riding through a lovely (ahem) estate to get to my local spot, a kid about 4 or 5 years old threw a stone, just landed short of me, but perfectly on target. Looked like his parents were behind, I asked them if that was their son. The reply was:
"Yes it f*****g is, he's not a c**t like you!" followed by a swill on his beer can.
ah middleton, the finest estate in Leeds. My favourite statement riding in miggy woods would have to be "your bikes gay" followed by his mate exciteably asking "can have a ride off of it?" had to s****!
"Luddite"
Which is fair enough, tbh.
A few months ago I was cycling to work on a quiet country road, which had a slight incline but there was a slight tail wind. I heard a car coming up behind me... plenty of room to overtake and its a long straight road with good visibility but the car stays behind me for about 30 seconds. Then it pulls along side, the passenger window goes does and a big, fat, bearded bloke (think Ricky Tomlinson in the Royle Family) shouts ...
"Ya doin' 25 mph... thats really good!"
I was so shocked I nearly fell off.
A group of young girls in a Corsa were leaning out of the windows and shouting ' You look fantastic!' and wolf whistling whilst I was out in my full lycra leggings on my road bike.
I don't care what my wife says - they were NOT being sarcastic 😆
All the usual w*nker hand signs etc plus "Where`s yer kilt!" screamed from a minibus carrying Rangers fans to the Eufa cup final in Manchester last year! 😯
My favourite one was from a very tasty young lady from the passenger seat of a passing car who told me I had "a very nice bum"! 😀
i got a puncture on the ride home and had to walk the last mile and a bit cos i had no tools etc. on me. was wearing full lycra shorts and top, had to walk through a group of local scallies who "hilariously" "pretended" to try to grab my bike off me, while pointing out how nice it looked and how "gay" i looked. 😆
"wrong way dickhead" .... its the last time he will say that to anyone , believe me .
why, do you only go the right way these days?
"fast", occasionally "fit". And this one time? at Mountain Mayhem? Some hilarious spectator shouts "I thought black was supposed to be a slimming colour!" I was soloing and utterly on my chinstrap, too out of breath to retort. And he was right, I am a fat git.
Riding out of Wharncliffe last summer a bunch of local kids swa us and started chanting this following snippet of bizzarreness:
"XC Bum Me, XC Bum Me!"
Whatever they meant by that I don't know.
On the road bike dressed in lycra - "Like your gimp suit mate!"
Local 'yoofs' loitering around the bandstand - one shouts....
"Oi bike-ist"
I get 'Wanna sell your bike mate?' quite a lot, and have had 'You've shat yourself mate' (muddy after Epping Forest), 'You've lost your wheels mate' (carrying a frame home) and best of all 'Your bike's f*kin PENG, bruv!' (coz it is 😀 ).
I've had 'Gerroff and milk it'
and 'Oooh Fit AND handsome'
Actually I just made that second one up.
"You're a bit chunky for a cyclist" - from a 50 something female duathlete who rode with me on a Matlock CC social ride a couple of years (and about 20lbs) ago.
we used to shout "get off and milk" as kids it too!
never really knew why - but it was the 70's and cowhorn bars were in
I got "ooooh that one's a GIRL" a few years ago, made me chuckle
You sure that one was aimed at you, mrsflash, and not at the ginger one?
I regularly get 'gears are for queers' when riding past the local bmx and skate park, take great delight in deliberately riding my SS past them now
how comes i get banned for swearing even though the thread clearly stated whats the strangest thing you have been called on BIKE I STATED WHAT I HAVE BEEN CALLED AND GOT BANNED! ITS ALL JUST BULL EVERYONE ELSE SWEARS NOT JUST ME
You sure that one was aimed at you, mrsflash, and not at the ginger one?
maybe! 🙂
On the road bike one evening the other week, out of the saddle hammering up the Crow Road (a nice gradual climb into the Campsies) as hard as I could, a car with two young women in it comes alongside me - the passenger puts the window down and says "check your LEGS!!"
Best ride ever.
Get called all sorts on the commute, from the unintentionally-complimentary (haw LANCE!) to the say-what-you-see (uhh BIKE!!)
Since seeing the Inbetweeners last week I've been tempted on several occasions to shout "bus w@nkers!" at bams waiting on buses.
[i]"bus w@nkers!" [/i]
LOL, Quality!
bus ****ers - lol
"sexy bloke"
oh sorry, that was a dream :o)
Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer do
as popularised by a well known psychopathic spaceship computer...
the thing i like least about my 4 year-old Scott Genius is the rather in-your-face logos all over it. It is gopping to look at. Nevertheless, riding past the skateramp near newnham park after a nightride, accompanied by several thousand pounds worth of posh new enduros and epics underneath my more financially solvent friends, the kids hanging round gave me a "nice bike mate, oooooh, its a Scott!".
got berated by an oap walking along the shopshire union canal for making her elderly dog jump...
"you should have a bell! my dog's deaf you know!"
"how is it going to hear my bell then?"
I've had "yours wheels are going around" shouted at me by a bus stop full of chavs ! the girl who said it looked very pleased with herself. Until a replyed so is your mother ! her laughing face dropped, an all her buddys laughed very loud ! he he
"Indurain" in the basque country of all things 😀 I was marginally skinnier, but no more healthy/fast/capable.
The crowd was very, very drunk.
I've always cheered on the euskatel euskaidi boys ever since.
when i was doing a little bit of downhill, i was wearing my full face helmet as a local chav wiv his teenage mates said "oi, this thing will stop you from falling." i replied puzzled "it wont actually stop me falling mate, it will stop me getting a face like your." i cycled very quickly away after this!
Riding home from work today just before 6, a ped bloke holding a can of Stella called me a "stupid fing stupid man".