What's the strangest thing anyone has shouted at you, from a passing car.

[HarryTheDog]

Stopped at the lights a eastern european sounding van driver looked me up and down in my full club go faster lycra gear and said in a very conversational matter of fact way " I don't like what your wearing" . I cant remember my reply.

 

[numbnuts]

F***king numbnuts........how did he know my name

 

[Will Spin]

Guy in an oldish BMW, no passengers, slowed down beside me as I was going down hill lowered the passenger side window to tell me I was taking up too much space.

 

[Globalti]

Not a driver to a cyclist but a cyclist to a woman horse rider:

Cyclist: "Fancy a swop?"

Rider: "Oh, no thank you!"

Cyclist: "I wasn't talking to you; I was talking to your horse!"

(Never actually heard it and never had the nerve to say it either!)

 

[Pale Rider]

I had something shouted at me from a passing car which I didn't understand but was presumably an insult.

The shouter was a young man in the passenger seat of a Vauxhall Corsa, so it may have been a case of 'yoof speak' as mentioned above.

One thing I have concluded from that and a couple of other encounters is that nearside electric windows have a lot to answer for.

 

[Dave 123]

It was common in the 70s, if you rode a bike, that someone (a non cyclist) would shout out, 'Can ya ride tandem' from the PG Tips ad.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqNnPrxzm3g

This may have happened to us. Oh, how we chortle!

 

[Racing roadkill]

I dunno

 

[Profpointy]

Another one was, when passing a group of young lads, 'Hey mate, your back wheel's going round.'

I believed the approved reply is "so's your mum"

(substitute "girlfriend" or "wife" where appropriate)

 

[Dayvo]

I believed the approved reply is "so's your mum"

(substitute "girlfriend" or "wife" where appropriate)

I was too young to know about that kind of thing when I was 11-12.

 

[Pat "5mph"]

Stopped at the lights a eastern european sounding van driver looked me up and down in my full club go faster lycra gear and said in a very conversational matter of fact way " I don't like what your wearing" . I cant remember my reply.

Sorry, but ...
I used to get shouted at a lot, before I discovered a segregated route to work.
The most bizarre has been a British Gas van man, shouting something very abusive on passing me. Of course I could not hear what was said, but I could have reported him easy to the company.

 

[Proto]

Not a verbal exchange, and not cycling related, but on my motorcycle (Fireblade), I pulled up at some traffic lights in Germany (near Saarbrucken). Car pulled up alongside, two middlel aged women inside. Drivers window goes down, hand comes out and she starts stroking my leathers, my arm and chest. They chatted away in German. No idea what to say or do, so I just sat there until the lights changed and I went on my way.

 

[Tin Pot]

Almost all of what reaches my ears is bizarre. I don't think they quite understand the way sound from a moving vehicle works.

 

[JD42]

I got water pistoled from a passenger... .. fu@#er got me right in the ear.

 

[keithmac]

I had a "nice legs, what time do they open?", from a car with 3 ladies in it.

Confusing but made me smile all the same!.

Also had a yoof in passenger side shout something illegible while I was waiting at a roundabout, just happy that my 4 year old daughter has a better command of the English language!.

 

[John the Monkey]

"A badger stole my shoes."

"I powered my engine with twigs."

"This is a valid mode of transport in crowded 21st century cities."