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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?)


 
Posted : 30/04/2009 9:23 am
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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


 
Posted : 30/04/2009 9:26 am
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You sure it wasn't something else ending in er? ๐Ÿ˜‰


 
Posted : 30/04/2009 9:27 am
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binners - did you still have the "stop me and buy one" sign switched on ?


 
Posted : 30/04/2009 9:29 am
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A crappy motorist once called me a "Yorkshire Pudding".


 
Posted : 30/04/2009 9:29 am
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Nothing out the ordinary, usual pleasantries like **** once or twice. Not an imaginative lot round my way i guess.


 
Posted : 30/04/2009 9:31 am
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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 ๐Ÿ˜‰


 
Posted : 30/04/2009 9:32 am
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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.


 
Posted : 30/04/2009 9:37 am
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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.


 
Posted : 30/04/2009 9:48 am
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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!


 
Posted : 30/04/2009 9:50 am
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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.


 
Posted : 30/04/2009 10:06 am
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I don't get called anything, could be something to do with me being so big....


 
Posted : 30/04/2009 10:08 am
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someone called me 'monkey bum' once!!!


 
Posted : 30/04/2009 10:15 am
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I got "Nice bum" from some girls, when I was cycling through town.
It cheered me up.


 
Posted : 30/04/2009 10:18 am
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skillful


 
Posted : 30/04/2009 10:32 am
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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....


 
Posted : 30/04/2009 10:36 am
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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 ๐Ÿ˜ณ


 
Posted : 30/04/2009 10:40 am
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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 : 30/04/2009 10:48 am
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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 : 30/04/2009 10:48 am
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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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Posted : 30/04/2009 10:52 am
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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 ๐Ÿ˜ฏ


 
Posted : 30/04/2009 11:17 am
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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


 
Posted : 30/04/2009 11:22 am
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Fit. This baffled me somewhat......


 
Posted : 30/04/2009 11:25 am
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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!


 
Posted : 30/04/2009 11:28 am
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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


 
Posted : 30/04/2009 11:37 am
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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.


 
Posted : 30/04/2009 11:39 am
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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


 
Posted : 30/04/2009 11:45 am
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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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Posted : 30/04/2009 11:48 am
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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 "


 
Posted : 30/04/2009 12:00 pm
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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 : 30/04/2009 12:00 pm
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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)


 
Posted : 30/04/2009 12:00 pm
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"Prick" or "****er" are the most original and witty suggestions the locals can muster


 
Posted : 30/04/2009 12:15 pm
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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!


 
Posted : 30/04/2009 12:19 pm
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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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fast


 
Posted : 30/04/2009 12:34 pm
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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.


 
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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


 
Posted : 30/04/2009 12:37 pm
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I get often get 'your wheels are going around' which is odd


 
Posted : 30/04/2009 12:39 pm
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I got "ooooh that one's a GIRL" a few years ago, made me chuckle.


 
Posted : 30/04/2009 12:41 pm
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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


 
Posted : 30/04/2009 12:46 pm
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"You dont ride in the kerb you are a bad cycilst"...
It's very hard to get me speechless... This one did


 
Posted : 30/04/2009 12:53 pm
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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..


 
Posted : 30/04/2009 12:54 pm
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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 ...


 
Posted : 30/04/2009 12:56 pm
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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?


 
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