Things people who don't cycle say

[Turdus philomelos]

Quizzically looking at my damp, crazy hair
"You didn't ride to work today did you?"

 

[Welsh wheels]

Quizzically looking at my damp, crazy hair
"You didn't ride to work today did you?"

Haha, I've had that. I arrived somewhere and was getting off my bike and taking off my helmet when someone said, "Did you cycle here?" My response, "No, I walked and I carried my bike over my shoulder just for fun."

 

[Dayvo]

Not quite what a 'non cyclist' said (my boss 'apparently' cycled a bit when he was younger, or so he told me, so was obviously well qualified to comment), but when I told him about my attempt to cycle 330 km within a 24-hour period last summer, he just laughed and said 'not a chance.'

So, when I was back at work on the Monday morning, he asked how it went (using a negative tone). I just shook my head and smiled, which he took to be a grimace, and said, 'Huh, I knew. You weren't prepared, you had the wrong bike, the distance was too much, you're not fit enough, you're too old blah blah blah.'

And when I told him that I had done it, you should have seen the look on his face - he looked crestfallen and apoplectic at the same time.

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

Nothing like someone saying you can't do something to add a little more motivation

 

[Katherine]

It annoys me when people complain about cyclists jumping red lights, riding two abreast, riding in the middle of the road, not paying road tax, not using cycle paths, not using their bell etc, but obviously they never mean me! " I know it's not you but..."

 

[HLaB]

I used to find the comments about my old Viking fixie. 'Its an expensive lightweight bike'

 

[ojoman]

Had some lads in a 'hot hatch' ask me, at the lights, "How fast can you go on that?" I replied "Depends on how fast I pedal." I immediately felt an arrogant tit as they seemed genuine.

 

[HLaB]

'Oh so you are the one who holds up the traffic'

 

[Nigelnaturist]

I used to find the comments about my old Viking fixie. 'Its an expensive lightweight bike'

I get that on my Viking (mind you it is valued at over a grand for insurance) it don't make it a great bike just one I get around on, ex is in the Hospital at Wakefield a 25 mile round trip and people don't believe I ride it, even she is trying to persuade me to use the train I don't think she cottoned on to the 2-300 miles a week I was doing a few years back the 25 miles is a wee jaunt.

 

[further]

I put on a movie for me and SO:

What is a SO

 

[MikeG]

What is a SO

Significant other. AKA Partner, boyfriend, girlfriend etc.

 

[further]

Thanks for that

 

[Sheffield_Tiger]

[when we moved premises at work, 1.5 miles up the road]
"Are you still going to cycle in or is it [5 miles] too far now?"

 

[Nigelnaturist]

Had two today one re. previous post about the Viking looks a nice bike mind they were kids. The other one of the nurses at the hospital said (and bear in mind I rode there and dressed in cycling kit) said am I riding home, I did think about being rhetorical but not my nature.