Funny things that happen to you on a ride

[John Ellis]

Well something really odd to happen to someone on a bike, but I pulled up a few feet from a junction to check google maps to see exactly where I was and a guy on a cycle come past me just missing me he was texting on his mobile then rode streight out of the junction onto the main road, I was absolutly amazed but still chuckled to myself.

 

[sheffgirl]

I once nearly ran over a squirrel, it ran out from the side of the road and literally froze in front of me. It made me laugh anyway

 

[SWSteve]

I once nearly ran over a squirrel, it ran out from the side of the road and literally froze in front of me. It made me laugh anyway

You'd be well placed as a bond villain with a heart as cold as yours!

 

[SWSteve]

Great moment today with mate, every single other road user hated us...we cycled in single file, stayed to the left of and roads and when passing people made sure to slow down. And they still weren't happy.Here is a list of the incidents
1) Couple driving past in what can only be described as an old car(It was so battered) driving past blaring the horn and the girl (an absolute dog) flicked us the bird
2) Woman deciding she was fed up walking on the correct side of the road (into oncoming traffic) so moved into our paths, looked over her shoulder, jumped and screamed...and then felt the need to shout 'use your bell next time'. - we slowed right down and were on the left of the road to be sure to not hit her/her husband or their dog. My friend decided to shout back 'stay on the right side of the road next time'
3) When passing a woman on a horse, she told us that we 'should have shouted' - Now I know a little about how much of a joke horses are, and if we had shouted she would have undoubtedly kicked off saying we shouldn't have shouted in case we startled the horse.

 

[themosquitoking]

Great moment today with mate, every single other road user hated us...we cycled in single file, stayed to the left of and roads and when passing people made sure to slow down. And they still weren't happy.Here is a list of the incidents
1) Couple driving past in what can only be described as an old car(It was so battered) driving past blaring the horn and the girl (an absolute dog) flicked us the bird
2) Woman deciding she was fed up walking on the correct side of the road (into oncoming traffic) so moved into our paths, looked over her shoulder, jumped and screamed...and then felt the need to shout 'use your bell next time'. - we slowed right down and were on the left of the road to be sure to not hit her/her husband or their dog. My friend decided to shout back 'stay on the right side of the road next time'
3) When passing a woman on a horse, she told us that we 'should have shouted' - Now I know a little about how much of a joke horses are, and if we had shouted she would have undoubtedly kicked off saying we shouldn't have shouted in case we startled the horse.

Unlucky but i'm guessing you managed to run into a few people who hadn't been allowed out since october.

 

[SWSteve]

Unlucky but i'm guessing you managed to run into a few people who hadn't been allowed out since october.

I guess that was the case...apart from the woman in the car

 

[themosquitoking]

I guess that was the case...apart from the woman in the car

Yeah, it sounds like she hasn't been allowed out since 1974.

 

[Rickshaw Phil]

I once nearly ran over a squirrel, it ran out from the side of the road and literally froze in front of me. It made me laugh anyway

In a similar vein, I had one rush out from the hedge and headbutt the spokes on my front wheel while I was riding. (Could have been different if it had missed I suppose. )

 

[Pikey]

Back in the day I used to commute on the train from Filton abbey wood to bath and they had these bike lockers in the car park you could rent, I think they are still there.

So I get off the train, on the way to my locker to get my bike ready for the ride home and I notice a car parked in front of my locker. As I get closer i notice a guy in the drivers seat looking very content, laid back, hands behind his head. He jumps as I get there, my locker is just past his partly open window.

"Alright mate" says I, beginning to get un nerved, to which he just nods and goes back to looking content.

It's only once I have locked said locker and am on my bike that I notice the woman's head by the steering wheel...

Don't worry, it was attached to her body, but I am sure you can work the rest out.


I can't work out which is funnier tho, how brazen they were about it or how shocked I was back then in my innocence.


Who said romance was dead eh....

 

[SWSteve]

Back in the day I used to commute on the train from Filton abbey wood to bath and they had these bike lockers in the car park you could rent, I think they are still there.

So I get off the train, on the way to my locker to get my bike ready for the ride home and I notice a car parked in front of my locker. As I get closer i notice a guy in the drivers seat looking very content, laid back, hands behind his head. He jumps as I get there, my locker is just past his partly open window.

"Alright mate" says I, beginning to get un nerved, to which he just nods and goes back to looking content.

It's only once I have locked said locker and am on my bike that I notice the woman's head by the steering wheel...

Don't worry, it was attached to her body, but I am sure you can work the rest out.


I can't work out which is funnier tho, how brazen they were about it or how shocked I was back then in my innocence.


Who said romance was dead eh....

similar to this a couple of weeks ago, was on way down a lovely 2.5 mile decent, and around halfway a similar act was happening in a car pulled along the side of the road. must have been his birthday as he wasn't there today

 

[Kies]

I came back to my bike , which was locked in a public underground car park to see a woman sitting astride a man on the passenger seat - they both saw me as i did them. Not sure who was more embarrased!

 

[User16625]

A dog pissed on someones bicycle that was locked up. I wonder how the owner reacted to the smell.

 

[NormanD]

The seagull attack on a very large couple (obese) meal of burgers and chips (very large portions) while we were having a coffee stop at a burger van and seating area along the coast at South Shields last summer.

The guy almost wobbled the whole length of the car park to get his half burger bun back (which he failed to do) and his wife remonstrating with the burger vans owners on how they paid for a meal to have it stolen had us in stitches.

 

[gbb]

Taken from a different discussion...

Told this before in a different context/post, but..cycling alomg one summers night in the countryside, pitch black barring the beam of light from my front light. It gave me maybe 10 ft of visibilty...not much at 15 - 17 mph.
Out of the gloom on one side loomed this black shape about the size of a large dog and ambled across my path

Frightened the cr@p out of me in that split second, i found myself shouting 'FAAARRRRK OFFFF' in the perhaps vain hope whatever it was might get out of the way . It was of course a badger, it ambled on, probably competely unaware or uncaring...i wobbled off into the gloom, trying to regain some composure .
It did occur to me there's a village maybe 200 yards up the road. I had visions of someone putting the milk bottles out, just bending over...to hear a wierd 'FAARRRRK OFFF' emanating from the gloomy dark

Red Kite are so common round Peterborough, i regularly have them flying about 20 ft above me, not a care in the world. One 40 mile ride i think i counted
about 25 of them.

 

[Gravity Aided]

A bald eagle, sitting next to the bike trail. Quite impressive. Tried to get a picture, but he just screamed his eagle scream and flew off.