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

[OskarTennisChampion]

" better you than me" is my favourite.

 

[rdfcyclist]

"Why aren't you wearing a ... hi-vis?"

I get this nearly every f**king ride and it grates away at me more than it should. I have two rear lights, two front lights, sharkfin helmet light, four reflective snap bands, reflective strips are sewn into my outfit (jersey, shorts, backpack & helmet) and I have a reflective Moose toy snapped on the back of my backpack. I do not need a widdle vizzy vest to top off this ensemble, thank you.

 

[Pat "5mph"]

On a local shared path: I am so tired from work, take it easy, practice my slow riding skills behind pedestrians.
Random passer by: "You would make progress if you rang your bell ...." Umph!
Next day, I do ring my bell:
Random passer by: "you, on the road!" ... Umph, when I'm on the road, the random taxi driver shouts "on the path with you!"

 

[shouldbeinbed]

It gets me that people have to tell you about every indiscretion perceived or real that any cyclist they've seen recently has committed as if we all live together and I can have a word on their behalf.

 

[Nortones2]

Grumpy law lecturer button-holed me one day at Uni. A "rider" regularly drove past the staff houses on campus and made a racket, late at night. Apparently, as a motorcyclist (Norton 500 single) I was in league with/in loco parentis for, said yob, even if it was someone else. Naturally I just shrugged my shoulders. Turned out to be a Phd student driving a Beetle with noisy exhaust. For some reason I was persona non grata thereafter, despite innocence

 

[PeteXXX]

Chain looks slack mate!

 

[Saluki]

Where I used to live, there were a family of err, larger people who would regularly yell at me "you wouldn't catch me on one of them things", I used to reply "clearly".

They didn't know where I lived, thank heavens.

 

[Hyslop]

"Any fuel today?" in Tescos as I pick up a pint of milk on the way home - in cycling gear with helmet on..

Couldn't agree more,however,as a positive response,my local newsagent has known me for years(we went to different schools together),knows I'm a cyclist,and quite often when I go for my paper waves a carton of chocolate milk at me and asks"Any fuel with that"!!

 

[steveindenmark]

The question often asked of me by just the everyday commuter in the street is

"How many bikes have you got"

Reply " Ive got seven"

Commuter "Ive got more than that"

Its a bummer living in Denmark :0)

 

[Drago]

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

 

[swee'pea99]

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

 

[jonny jeez]

"next time, at least try to jeep up"

That's my offering by the way, not a reply to any other post

 

[loveandpeace1]

No-one ever says bugger all to me. Maybe that's a Cardiff thing or maybe my bike ?,

 

[Glow worm]

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.

 

[RichardB]

"Any fuel today?" in Tescos as I pick up a pint of milk on the way home - in cycling gear with helmet on..

At which you point to the milk and say "yup, here it is".