Strangest thing I've ever had yelled at me on the bike

Dave Tallo

I'm used to "get off the road" or "Nice shorts, Lance,"  or whatever. 

Today, a dude in a pickup yelled "You look like Chuck Norris - in all the right ways."

I spent the remaining 3 hours of the ride laughing at that one. 

 

 

Steven Ford

Today I got "Nice Shirt" and the other day it was not what someone said but did. I was starting from a red light and was standing up hammering, and an older lady was riding beside me watching me, I wonder if she was checking out my bike

Norton

@Steve: I'm sure she was checking out your.....nahhh, I can't write it. Wimped out.

kurshing

@Dave - I have to tell you...I just laughed out loud all by myself at home! I read the post about 15 minutes ago and I am STILL laughing...that is one of the funniest things I have ever heard!

Coach Patrick

Dave, I think that's a Tshirt right there. Steve, I was waiing for you to say she yelled...

HOT DAWG!!!!

Michele Cellai

Dave-I just keep giggling about that one! At least it was meant as a compliment. The other day I was running and some teens were "mooing" at me. I just ignored them since I know I am not large, but after they got bored I had to laugh since I am racing IMMooooooooooooo!

Fratto

I wish i could get that! but I cant grow a beard like that to save my life...

i get whistles and such normally not much talking. Though me and my dad got attacked with water-balloons once! Car drove by and starting pelting us with them. They were VERY SHOCKED when we chased them to the next light and caught them. and since my dad is 6'2" 190 and they were amazingly apologetic when he knocked on the window to talk to them! Maybe even better my dad had a girl reach out and spank him once also ...

ht001

Holy cow that is a good one, Dave! I'd bet you're the ONLY one who's ever had that yelled at them on a bike!

dan_forbes

 Good story!  I have 2 that stick out, not as good but I'll bore you anyway.  Last year I was in the right side of a left turn lane with a proper turn signal by myself, and a guy pulled along side rolled down his window and told me to get out of the middle of "f******* road!" my signal turned into sign language.  Recently was the best one, I rode past my local Boys and Girls Club and few middle schoolers were hanging out on the front steps and one of them was man enough to say "nice ass!" of course I said "thanks buddy" to that one, I always receive comments like that one with open arms.

 

DocHoffart

I had a guy nearly brush me with his passenger mirror on a Suburban with zero oncoming traffic. It was a double yellow and I was on the white line as their was zero shoulder to ride on. This is a farming area...rural California. I "gestured" with my arms out indicating "What the...." with no middle fingers implied. He slowed and rolled his passenger window down and as I rode along side of him he said, "Are you suggesting that I cross the double yellow to go around you?" I replied, "If I may, first of all: I have inoperable brain cancer and will likely not make it thru the summer. I'm riding with that guy behind me as he is a lifelong friend and it was a last wish of mine. I have 4 boys and 3 stepchildren along with a wife. You could have hit me and they would get the life insurance check sooner than later but my friend you almost hit has a family that expects him to be around for awhile.... Secondly, if I were a slow moving piece of farm equipment, you would politely cross that double yellow and likely wave to the guy as you passed him." I wished him a good day.

While my story to him was total fabrication the fact is that people just do not think but have a visceral reaction often times to cyclists. I doubt he will buzz anyone again.

Vince

Ironman281

My all time favorite, I live in a town called Grove City and well nick named "Grovtucky" and while out on a ride, kids in a car threw a full pop can and hit me at about 30 mph while in the areo bars and it took a bit but caught them at a light and then got a cell phone to call cop who then wrote the driver a ticket

One other jem, joe trucker throws an empty beer can at me while running but the one thing the jackass forgot to do was check his mirror for the cop right behind him that busted his ass. That's got to be the best because these losers almost never get caught doing this crap. i had a lady come into my lane to pass a car(double yellow) on the other side of the road, saw me and still floored it with no shoulder and about 2 ft from me about 60 mph. Nice!!

Michele Cellai

Out on an all girls ride a few weeks back, the right side of the lane was all torn up ( New England winters and all). We all moved to center of our lane to get around it. I could hear a Harley coming. As he passed me he yelled to "move over". We were about 20 yards from a stop sign, so I pulled up alongside him and asked him to repeat his words. I then calmly explained to the ugly biker dude that the bad road surface was as dangerous for me as it was for him. Idiot.

aimeefab

That is true- Michele did that! I was there. I was definitely going to back her up, but I had to catch her first.

"Get off the road" is the one that gets my blood boiling..I've chased after cars for that.

A couple of weeks ago a fellow biker grabbed my butt delicately as he passed me. I'm sure he was just letting me know he was there.

Bill McKinney

I was a messenger for several years, and I could probably go on for hours on this topic, but in case you haven't heard it, I'll share the one about my friend Frank Amore (yep, that's his real name). Frank was also a messenger and former D1 wrestler. We were making our way back to our office on, no kidding, CHRISTMAS EVE, and it's snowing hard! A car pulled up behind us with 2 girls in the front and a guy in the back. Car whips around us and guy rolls down the window and screams, "get the f*&% out of the road you f#$%in' morons". Frank didn't even speed up...it's rush hour in downtown Minneapolis after all. He just calmly pulled up next to the window at the next red light and politely asks (in a swarthy, Italian soto voce), "did you say something?". Guy starts to let loose another string of curses, but before he gets the first word out, Frank reaches through the window, grabs him around the neck, drags his torso through the window and proceeds to give him about three good ones across the chops with his u-lock...not hard enough to hurt him too bad, but bad enough to leave a mark. Needless to say the girls absolutely freak out and as soon as the light changes, hit the gas and go flying away. Frank looks over at me and just laughs. Next time someone does something like that, you can just say to yourself..."boy, I'd like to give that guy a little amore !" Works every time for me.

If anyone's interested I'll tell you about the guy that we caught on the "briefcase cam"! Now that's a REALLY good one!

DocHoffart

@Bill...Love it. I'm not advocating violence but did ride with a guy years ago and we were single file on a 4 lane road. A large SUV pulls right behind us and lays on the horn just to mess with us. We catch him at the next stoplight. The SUV (suburban) has a car in front and behind him. My buddy pulls along side the passengerside of this newer vehicle and rips the $500 heated mirror off. We turned right (I was following) and went about our business. I was totally floored and speachless.

Vince