Things people who don't cycle say

[Crackle]

Hey hot stuff

Wake up. You're dreaming again.

 

[nickyboy]

Wake up. You're dreaming again.

That's what happens when you wear jamas in the daytime. Always nodding off

 

[Accy cyclist]

Why do you need 15 bikes ?

Good question! Why DO you need 15 bikes?

 

[KneesUp]

"Geek!" (from a voice within a bunch of sixth form girls at a bus stop)

I don't know why I got that really. Because I wear glasses perhaps? Or perhaps just my general demeanour - it's certainly a fairly accurate observation to make of someone passing at c. 20mph. I took it as a compliment as it means I haven't quite got to the age where young people don't even notice me, even if I don't imagine it to have been a friendly comment

 

[Mugshot]

How much does it weigh?

Isn't that annoying, and they usually then just pick it up without a by your leave!!! fark off, I don't try to push your car up and down the street to see how heavy it is!!

 

[Accy cyclist]

Isn't that annoying, and they usually then just pick it up without a by your leave!!! fark off, I don't try to push your car up and down the street to see how heavy it is!!

Going off topic a bit. A bloke asked me once if he could try my glasses on as he said the lenses were fairly thick and he wanted to see what it's like to be "blind". I immediately replied yes,as long as i can try your underpants on to see what it's like to have such a fat arse! His wife laughed which made him angry.

 

[snorri]

I have been told quite firmly on three occasions "It is impossible to cycle that distance", each time whilst touring through the London area.

 

[Lonestar]

"It's far too dangerous in London."

@biggs682

 

[mjr]

I've just remembered a shout from Monday: "Oi, that wheel's about to run over your foot!" I was astride the bike stopped at traffic lights at the time as they drove across perpendicular.

On stating it's a shared Cycle and Pedestrian path, a woman replied, "That means. You have to get off your bike and walk with it!".

I hope that taught you to use the correct term instead of the fashionable council weasel words - it's almost certainly a farking cycle track (with right of way on foot).

About a year ago, I did have some numpty shout from a car that I should be pushing my bike across a place where a cycle track crossed a carriageway at traffic lights. That's not even debatable because I could ride across that in either direction. I'm just glad that I don't often have to be on that road with pillocks like that on it.

 

[GuyBoden]

I hope that taught you to use the correct term instead of the fashionable council weasel words - it's almost certainly a farking cycle track (with right of way on foot).

 

[Dec66]

"Gerroff an' milk it!", was a favourite shout to cyclists in my childhood.

Yes, I was one of the shouters. I didn't really know what it meant then, and I still don't now.

 

[biggs682]

Good question! Why DO you need 15 bikes?

So I can have a choice of which one to use

 

[biggs682]

@biggs682

Call me a wimp

 

[Accy cyclist]

So I can have a choice of which one to use

Ah,of course.Silly me!

 

[I like Skol]

Already sort of mentioned upthread but one I get quite a lot...

"Why don't you wear a helmet?" In fact this came up at the dinner table at work just last night