Most pathetic thing ever shouted at you whilst cycling?

[nilling]

"Nice arse!" - but that was a few decades ago

 

[Angelfishsolo]

Now this is why Mace and Pepper Spray should be made legal to cyclists By the way I AM JOKING. You did the right thing even though it must have been hard to control your emotions.

Cycling home last night. I'm on the outside of a dual lane road as I'm going straight and inside splits left. About 100metres long. Going slow as headwind in action and my tummy is rumbling.

Get to Lights and White Van passenger mumbles something. He is a small just out of his shorts, rat-faced, gormless eyed twit.

I could let it go but I ask him what he said. He laughed gormlessly then felt he had to say something beacuse his driver (mirror image of him) was watching.

"Get off the road" he literally whispered. Then laughed gormlessly.

What should I do, I wondered? Swear at him? Bang the side of his door? Open his door? Twist his windscreen wipers? Tell him that, in the words of Vinnie Jones whilst on the pitch for Wimbledon:

"If you talk to me again I'll rip your head off and spit down your *&^%()£ hole!" ?

I just shook my head instead at the pathetic saddos with nothing in their lives produced by some mums in this country and cycled on when the lights changed.

 

[Angelfishsolo]

Strange - A point at the rear view mirror 'usually means' your lights are blinding me (at least in my neck of the woods). Maybe he was just proud that he had one and wanted to show it off

Not had anything shouted at me yet (early days) but I did get one pr1ck in a Fiesta beep his horn at me when he was behind me then when he went past me he pointed to his rear view mirror. Not quite sure what his problem was. Still gave him the middle finger salute anyway!

 

[bikie]

I've had the "your wheels going round" or "your tyres flat" a few times and a few others because of the bright pink club tops we used to wear. I was riding a t.t. once and was ambushed by a group of kids with water pistols (big powerful ones) and after the turn I had to pass them again. I would have chased them but I was on a good time, everyone was comming in soaked, atleast it did seam like only water.

 

[Rhythm Thief]

"Nice arse!" - but that was a few decades ago

I've had that one too. Shouted at me by a girl in the passenger seat of her boyfriend's Fiesta as they overtook me (leaving plenty of room, I should add). I caught them up at the next traffic lights and she was really embarrassed, especially as her boyfriend insisted on trying to get me to give her my phone number.

 

[roadiewill]

'he's catching you'' by a load of little chavs when me and my mate were climbing this hill

 

[soulful dog]

Not really had anything shouted at me other than daft wee boys with their "gies a shot of yer bike" but something really pathetic happened on my way home this afternoon.

I was cycling along on the pavement (part of the Loch Lomond > Glasgow cycle route - at South St in Glasgow for anyone who knows it) when I heard someone really putting their foot down on the road behind me and as I glanced round some idiot had driven over onto the wrong side of the road into a huge puddle to try and soak me before speeding off, back on the right side of the road obviously.

Fortunately, I didn't get too wet, and as I was already soaking from the hail and rain that had stopped just five minutes earlier, it didn't really have much effect. Still, I hope he enjoyed sitting on his arse in all that traffic further along the road.

Incidentally, this was just a few hundred yards from where a lorry hit me not too long ago - what next I wonder!

 

[yenrod]

> Most pathetic thing ever shouted at you whilst cycling?

Has your bike got 'click' (think about it and you should understand).

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Though I had a group of 'youngsters' one of which, a girl, pointed and laugh - not so convincingly - at me and i si,mply looked at her, my reaction: none = the action returned back and smacked her in the gob !

 

[Auntie Helen]

I've had several different kids at different times shout "I'm going to nick your bike". How? I'm cycling, they're on foot, and they aren't exactly going about it surreptitiously!

 

[gbb]

'F*ck off you c*nt'...from a lovely lady who was in too much rush to just allow me to pass a line of cars in a narrow street...and i has right of way.!!!

Worse still..she had children in the back of the car

 

[Angelfishsolo]

Delightful. What a way to lead by example.

'F*ck off you c*nt'...from a lovely lady who was in too much rush to just allow me to pass a line of cars in a narrow street...and i has right of way.!!!

Worse still..she had children in the back of the car

 

[benno1uk]

some of the posts on here make you realise what an appalling country/world we live in when someone can't even travel in an environmentally friendly and harmless (to other people) way without attracting threats and abuse.

 

[saddlesoar]

I've had countless "you're wheel's going around" and the missus had "give us a ride" the other night.

Quite a few years ago I was riding home and someone came up behind me on a bike and told me to stop or he was going to kick me off. So I stopped. He said I wasn't to ride down this road any more. I asked why. He said he didn't like my face. I said OK and continued home. Then I rode down the same road every other day for years, never saw him again. Strange bloke!

Although I must admit sometimes I feel like shouting out to the paperboy that rides his mountain bike in the lowest gear on level ground so his legs are a spinning blur, "CHANGE GEAR".

 

[ACS]

I was riding through a rural hamlet this morning when a woman, who was washing her car turned and shouted at me, 'Maniac, you'll frighten the horses!' The only response I could muster was 'Horses, what horses, where?'

Now I know my best years are behind me and when I look at babies they always burst into tears, but being able to frighten imagery horses makes my slide into middle age even more profound. What's next, shattering mirrors with a single glance?

 

[Angelfishsolo]

Good God, invisible horses, what next

I was riding through a rural hamlet this morning when a woman, who was washing her car turned and shouted at me, 'Maniac, you'll frighten the horses!' The only response I could muster was 'Horses, what horses, where.'

Now I know my best years are behind me and when I look at babies they always burst into tears, but being able to frighten imagery horses moves my slide into middle age even more profound. What's next, shattering mirrors with a single glance?