Getting shouted at

[Psamathe]

(Other than liquid in NE France above)

Mostly in France but a few times in Belgium I have had a lot of shouts but all positive - I'm riding a tadpole recumbent and from talking to other French recumbent riders reasons I got was people like it that you're "doing something different". One time riding on French canal towpath and tourist boat on canal with 30 people aboard passed and they all started clapping me (as in cheering clapping). Not uncommon getting a few beeps on horn and thumbs up hand stuck out of window. And all ages as once passing a group of school children walking on pavement being herded by teachers and many started clapping as I passed.

 

[Alex321]

I have never had it. I ride thousands of km every year and nobodys ever done it to me. Some once shouted "Good lights" on a dark winters morning. I don't think that counts.

It certainly isn't a frequent occurrence, but I've experienced it probably 3-4 times in the last 4 years.

 

[sheddy]

Once had someone shout inaudible instructions from behind me, after I clearly signalled to turn right entering a roundabout.

I can only think she expected me to ride straight on - just to allow her overtake.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

Once had someone shout inaudible instructions from behind me, after I clearly signalled to turn right entering a roundabout.

I can only think she expected me to ride straight on - just to allow her overtake.

The thing that gets me is how they seem to think that you can hear them and should obey

You have exactly no clue what the words are normally and the tone and amount of anger in the voice just makes it worse

 

[Drago]

Just randomly shout back at them "half past two!" while pointing at your watch. Nothing angers them more than their self righteousness not being understood and acknowledged.

 

[Psamathe]

Confession: I shouted at somebody yesterday. I was on the bike, single track road well out from kerb and a white van didn't seem to know the difference between 1.5m and 5 cm as he barged past from behind. That said, had he given me more than 5 cm he'd have been in the ditch. But in his (van driver's) defence it seemed his trip was really urgent as he couldn't wait for a passing place 20 m ahead.

I regret resisting bashing on the side of his van. Given his driving I suspect he's well used to having cyclists shout at him.

Ian

 

[MontyVeda]

Was minding my own business on a ride when someone rolled down their window and shouted at me just as they were passing. It wasn't anything intelligible. They were so loud it almost felt like getting struck, and gave me a wobble. Fortunately no damage done, but FGS, why do people do this???

I've been in cars where someone thinks it's funny to jeer out of the window at people on the street. They seem to think it's funny. 'We' think they're d!ckheads.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

I've been in cars where someone thinks it's funny to jeer out of the window at people on the street. They seem to think it's funny. 'We' think they're d!ckheads.

Drunk, High, Trying to show off to their mates

or just morons

difficult to work them out

 

[blackrat]

I suspect it's all because the modern world makes people frustrated and angry and impotent so they take it out of anyone they believe are not able to retaliate. It's probably better they yell at cyclists than go home and kick the dog or bash the wife.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

I suspect it's all because the modern world makes people frustrated and angry and impotent so they take it out of anyone they believe are not able to retaliate. It's probably better they yell at cyclists than go home and kick the dog or bash the wife.

Better still if they decided to start cycling and took the aggression out by pedalling up a steep hill or two!!!

 

[Chris S]

Was minding my own business on a ride when someone rolled down their window and shouted at me just as they were passing. It wasn't anything intelligible. They were so loud it almost felt like getting struck, and gave me a wobble. Fortunately no damage done, but FGS, why do people do this???

Because their parents were too closely related.

 

[blackrat]

Very probably, but people are so angry these days, I just don't see any answer for it. It's getting to the point where any interaction leads to hostility. Which is why I suggest it's best to ignore verbal attacks.

 

[mjr]

It's simple snobbery, bikes are for poor people, if you can afford a car, you're rich.

until you want any infrastructure (even parking spaces) for cycling because then all cyclists are rich urban elite and providing safety or security for them is furthering inequality(!) Because it's so cheap to run 3 cars that every house with one off-highway parking space needs to park two on road by the door because all drivers may be disabled but not so much they're prohibited from driving, so it would be unfair to move their parking and complete the bike lane. It's much fairer to make those posh cyclists ride on the busy A road. 😵‍💫🤯

Schrödinger's cyclist: both rich and poor, criminal and law-abiding, common and posh, too fast and too slow, should be both on and off the roads!

 

[Drago]

until you want any infrastructure (even parking spaces) for cycling because then all cyclists are rich urban elite and providing safety or security for them is furthering inequality(!) Because it's so cheap to run 3 cars that every house with one off-highway parking space needs to park two on road by the door because all drivers may be disabled but not so much they're prohibited from driving, so it would be unfair to move their parking and complete the bike lane. It's much fairer to make those posh cyclists ride on the busy A road. 😵‍💫🤯

Schrödinger's cyclist: both rich and poor, criminal and law-abiding, common and posh, too fast and too slow, should be both on and off the roads!

Put me in charge - I'll sort it within a week.

And I'd have to, because I'd be shot and hung by my heels by angry motorists in week two.

 

[DRM]

One very different version of being shouted at was Tour de Yorkshire, intermediate sprint uphill between Farmer Copleys and the Old Barracks heading towards Pontefract, there’s a wedding venue there and was cheered on up that hill by the Bride & Groom along with the guests, like I was in the race, stood up on the drops like Pantani, even got a PB on there, got to the top and promptly hung over the bike in a crumpled heap heaving for breath!