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I get often get 'your wheels are going around' which is odd

I've had "Your back wheel's chasing you"


 
Posted : 30/04/2009 2:10 pm
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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'


 
Posted : 30/04/2009 2:13 pm
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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!


 
Posted : 30/04/2009 2:25 pm
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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 ๐Ÿ˜ฏ


 
Posted : 30/04/2009 2:32 pm
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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.


 
Posted : 30/04/2009 2:59 pm
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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****!


 
Posted : 30/04/2009 3:12 pm
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"Luddite"

Which is fair enough, tbh.


 
Posted : 30/04/2009 3:22 pm
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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.


 
Posted : 30/04/2009 3:42 pm
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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 ๐Ÿ˜†


 
Posted : 30/04/2009 3:44 pm
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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! ๐Ÿ˜ฏ

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"! ๐Ÿ˜€


 
Posted : 30/04/2009 4:20 pm
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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. ๐Ÿ˜†


 
Posted : 30/04/2009 4:39 pm
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"wrong way dickhead" .... its the last time he will say that to anyone , believe me .


 
Posted : 30/04/2009 5:10 pm
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why, do you only go the right way these days?


 
Posted : 30/04/2009 5:10 pm
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"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.


 
Posted : 30/04/2009 5:14 pm
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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.


 
Posted : 30/04/2009 5:21 pm
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On the road bike dressed in lycra - "Like your gimp suit mate!"


 
Posted : 30/04/2009 5:32 pm
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Local 'yoofs' loitering around the bandstand - one shouts....

"Oi bike-ist"


 
Posted : 30/04/2009 6:05 pm
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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 ๐Ÿ˜€ ).


 
Posted : 30/04/2009 6:09 pm
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I've had 'Gerroff and milk it'

and 'Oooh Fit AND handsome'

Actually I just made that second one up.


 
Posted : 30/04/2009 6:47 pm
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"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.


 
Posted : 30/04/2009 8:01 pm
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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


 
Posted : 30/04/2009 8:17 pm
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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?


 
Posted : 30/04/2009 8:36 pm
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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


 
Posted : 30/04/2009 9:37 pm
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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


 
Posted : 30/04/2009 9:41 pm
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You sure that one was aimed at you, mrsflash, and not at the ginger one?

maybe! ๐Ÿ™‚


 
Posted : 01/05/2009 9:23 am
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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.


 
Posted : 01/05/2009 9:32 am
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[i]"bus w@nkers!" [/i]

LOL, Quality!


 
Posted : 01/05/2009 10:42 am
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bus ****ers - lol


 
Posted : 01/05/2009 10:50 am
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"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...


 
Posted : 01/05/2009 11:00 am
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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!".


 
Posted : 01/05/2009 11:02 am
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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?"


 
Posted : 01/05/2009 4:55 pm
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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


 
Posted : 01/05/2009 5:59 pm
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"Indurain" in the basque country of all things ๐Ÿ˜€ 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.


 
Posted : 01/05/2009 8:57 pm
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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!


 
Posted : 01/05/2009 9:20 pm
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Riding home from work today just before 6, a ped bloke holding a can of Stella called me a "stupid fing stupid man".


 
Posted : 01/05/2009 9:31 pm
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Can only think of two, apart from the usual muffled abuse from passing cars.

"Cool Marin mate" from a school kid, I was riding an Inbred, slick insult, respect ๐Ÿ˜‰

"Don't splash us" from a group of walkers stood ankle high in the middle of a mother of all puddles, they got their wish.


 
Posted : 01/05/2009 9:50 pm
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"Nice bike apart from the pink bits.... Yer Greet Puff!!!!"


 
Posted : 01/05/2009 10:24 pm
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yesterday, teenager on a bmx; "gimp, gimp, gimp, gimp"

fair enough as I was lycra'd up on the road bike ๐Ÿ™‚


 
Posted : 07/05/2009 7:50 am
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hop.


 
Posted : 07/05/2009 9:03 am
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Going up the Menock pass last w/e on roadie with mtb-borders tope on.

"Bet you wished you had 27 gears now"


 
Posted : 07/05/2009 9:27 am
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Got called a F*wit on a ride twice, consecutively by two different f*wits in cars.

Favourite was when biking though Melbourne at 6am Sunday on an organised ride, local drunks were all shouting "bum sniffers". Quite original I thought.


 
Posted : 07/05/2009 10:59 am
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I got called a maniac once early one morning for riding on Brighton promenade instead of the cycle lane by a guy on a quadbike..... If MTB's arent allowed on Brighton seafront, I'm pretty sure Quadbikes arent either!

It's so frustrating when you think of something clever to say when the moments passed!


 
Posted : 07/05/2009 11:12 am
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Car driving towards me at speed when I use at speed so I only heard:
"Oi you..."

Also Heard:

"Nice one", "Speedy", "Gay", "w&nka" and "Nice Bike".


 
Posted : 07/05/2009 12:48 pm
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On approaching from behind and passing a couple of ramblers around Rivi..

rambler 1 to rambler 2 - "They call them silent death those things"

Which was puzzling because I really wouldn't have thought you could call either me or my bike 'silent', particularly when climbing.


 
Posted : 07/05/2009 12:56 pm
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on a kmb ride, after not falling off, someone else said i was "good" ๐Ÿ˜•


 
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