It’s Facebook Friday on The Best Bike Blog Ever*. This week’s topic sure put a thorn in your chamois and resulted in the most participated-in topic ever. Woot. During the week we ask our Facebook Friends (likers) a pressing question. On Fridays, we lay it out so you can play it out. If you’d like to be part of the fun, click on this link to the Best Bike Blog Ever’s Facebook page and “lick” it. I mean “like” it. This week’s question:
What is the most memorable thing a motorist has ever shouted at you while on a ride?
Carol: "You look like you could use a beer! Here sweetheart, take a cold one. I'm wore out just lookin’ at ya!"
Peter: Two of us were riding from St Rt 126 up the hill toward Wards Corner. I was in front and all of sudden heard this scream/yelp from my friend Michael as a car slowly rolled by me. Turns out the guy in the passenger seat leaned out the window and pinched Michael in the ass.
Butch: Hey sexy!! Complete with wolf whistle. (The motorist was a male in a 70's vintage Chevy pickup truck)
Kim: 1975ish, east of Louisville on a group ride a pickup comes alongside and a very intoxicated guy yells "You F--King Q---rs” and tossed an open beer can at us! This of course is way before cell phones. About a mile up the road the truck was being detained by the county boys. We rode by cheering!! Ah the old days...
Corey: "Nice Butt!"
Tim: (I don’t know about) Shouted? I watched a guy vomit from the passenger window of a pickup about 25 feet ahead of me once.
Andrew: I don't know, I can never understand them. The barking dogs make more sense with their comments!
Nick: How about the 20+ incarnations of some sort of "Go Lance", or the variations on find an F'ing bike trail.
David: This lady laid on her horn as she passed me and yelled something out the window. I, for some reason yelled back, "GET OFF THE ROAD!!!"
David S: Very early on a Sunday morning about 18 years ago a pickup pulled up along side of us and (the occupants) started throwing eggs. Whoever was tossing wasn’t a very good shot, but sure made us wonder whether the kids went without bfast that morning or just drove around throwing eggs before church.
Dave: Three sweaty, shirtless guys squeezed into a small truck...all yelled the typical " F$#$ing Queer ! " They were practically laying on each other half-naked, and Im queer?
Harold: "Nice ass!" Normally this might have been cool, but the scary looking guy with the confederate flag and "git-r-dun" stickers on his rusty old Ford truck slowed way down to say it. Epic yikes!
Dave (again): Not yelled, but thrown: A FULL bag of Burger king stuff. Dude had literally had just driven out of the drive thru. Yeah, I was tempted to have a mid-ride snack.
James: "Put some saddles on your bikes!" Lil Bjet and I were dancing on the peddles up the steep section of Ibold. I had to laugh. It did look like we were preventing a velo-enema.
Christopher: "Stay out of my Fucking way," as they whizzed passed my handle bar clipping me with the side mirror. Sometimes I have heard a few whistles...they are not always bad comments.
Not That Lance: While slowly rolling up to an intersection, a car rolls up in the left lane and squeezes into my lane nearly hitting my bike. The passenger's side window rolls down and one of the two little old women said "You boys aren't supposed to be in the road. Get on the sidewalk." Then the window rolled up and the car continued to move to the right. There wasn't a sidewalk for miles.
Mark: South side of Columbus, "Hey, I really like those flames on your clothes. That is one badass outfit."
Peter (again): At the 4-way intersection in Maineville a shirtless guy in a car going the other direction stands through the sunroof and yells, “F$@% You” at the top of his lungs. It is now called the FU intersection.
Marisel: The honks from the SUVs in Prospect Park, Bklyn are more memorable than anywords could ever be!
Marisel: The honks from the SUVs in Prospect Park, Bklyn are more memorable than anywords could ever be!
2 comments:
@jason! hey, im in p-hill too, right up the road from quebec! we have to climb it lots. i do my hill repeats on glenway.
Sometime circa 2007 when Floyd Landis was in the news, at the corner of Hwy 50 and Newtown road, a fellow yelled at our group ride, "GET OFF THE 'ROIDS."
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