Irritating things people say to you, when they spot you getting off a bike.

[mustang1]

Not so much getting off a bike, but riding along a (crap)3 ft wide cycle path between my village and the next.

It's a useless 'shared use' jobby, and I have been shouted at by pedestrians to get off it, and shouted at (more raged at really- you know what the halfwits are like) by motons to get on it. Perhaps I should consider levitation.

When they shout
"Get on the bike path"
You should shout back
"That rhymes with kiss my..."

 

[Racing roadkill]

When they shout
"Get on the bike path"
You should shout back
"That rhymes with kiss my..."

I don't bother with the 'that rhymes with' bit.

 

[Drago]

I just ignore them. A reaction is what they want, and a lack of response leaves their anger to fester within them, and they will go on to have a worse day than you.

 

[Dirk]

The only thing I can remember anyone saying to me, was an incredulous young female land whale of a shop assistant saying - " You've cycled 6 miles (on the flat down, the Tarka Trail) to go shopping?!!"
I had to bite my lip and withhold the witty reply I had lined up. My missus burst out laughing.

 

[Arrowfoot]

Its the hi- viz question for me as well by a country mile. I also get this occasionally from fellow cyclist at ASL.

 

[Leaway2]

I've got 7 bikes and my team at work think I'm bananas.

Yeah that's not nearly enough.

 

[mjr]

No-one ever says bugger all to me. Maybe that's a London thing.

Yep. It's flaming annoying when I forget and talk to whoever stopped next to me at the lights. In Norfolk, you can have a chat. In Cambridge, sometimes yes and sometimes no. In London, only if they're another commuter from the great beyond.

I just ignore them. A reaction is what they want, and a lack of response leaves their anger to fester within them, and they will go on to have a worse day than you.

I mostly just wave. I can't usually hear over the engine noise whether it was a greeting or abuse!

 

[palinurus]

"You cycle all that way to work and back? Ooh, you must be brave."

Yes, yes I am!

 

[Pat "5mph"]

Oh, how can you cycle in this cold, you must be so fit ...
Erm, actually, because I'm not really fit I get home feeling roasting hot ... or it could just be my age