Best thing said to you on a bike

Evilmonkey "Your wheels are going round"

Still don't know what it meant???

stating the obvious heckles. we do it all the time from the van to peds... it confuses the fuck out of them.

eg if some dude is wearing a red jumper:

"you're wearing a red jumper!!!"

they just look at you with a bemused look on their face.

big daddy wayne bit early in the day for sano to be drinking…

BRM hehe
Good work, big papa.

'You, sirs, are a pair of cunts...' he types, while lounging in the sun on the balcony of his Alpine retreat...

:p

Pulling up to a set of traffic lights on the road bike yesterday, out of the corner of my eye, I could see the driver's window of the car next to me winding down. "Here we go," I thought, fully expecting an argument about something or other. So imagine my surprise when the driver said, "You were doing just over 35mph there. I'm really impressed." Aw, it's cool to be a hero figure...even if it is to a balding, bearded Vauxhall Corsa owner in his late 50s. I was so close to asking for his phone number. :-)

ads [quote]adoubletap At a set of traffic lights left lane going straight on, right lane turning right into Surrey Quays shopping centre. I shift lanes to the right and stop behind stationary car in front and am sitting patiently in the middle of lane with lights at red.

She probably had the painters in....

I will get my coat.[/quote]

Naah, there's not even a homebase in surrey quays, let alone a b&q so she can't have been in a rush to get some supplies for her expensive decorators...

I love all the pictures of people commuting on FS bikes with full face helmets. They've got me thinking, what's the best addition/customisation/innovation you've seen on a fluoro commuter's bike? For example, the other day, I saw a guy on Stamford Street riding low on a road bike with aero bars. Each aero bar had a wing mirror affixed to the end, where the shifter should be. I was just like, "words fail me".

I once had a rock the size of a baby's torso thrown at me from a car on the long downhill from Epsom Downs to Epsom. Hit me on the shoulder, didn't knock me off my bike but bruised essentially that entire side of my body. At first I thought it was a bird strike. Actually, I did ride over a pigeon the other day in Old Compton Street, it flew away but there were feathers in my spokes...

I know an American girl in Pimlico who once apparently said to a cyclist who ran a red, "lick my cunt". ...

ihatelaw
I once had a rock the size of a baby's torso thrown at me from a car on the long downhill from Epsom Downs to Epsom. Hit me on the shoulder, didn't knock me off my bike but bruised essentially that entire side of my body. At first I thought it was a bird strike. Actually, I did ride over a pigeon the other day in Old Compton Street, it flew away but there were feathers in my spokes...

I got attacked by this very buzzard in 2006 on the A3072, in Devon, it left three puncture wounds in my head and three near little holes in my cap. I thought it was a branch falling out of a tree, then looked over my shoulder and saw the buzzard flying away. Either the one in this report hadn't died or there was/is a strong genetic trait running through it's family. On another occasion it attacked all 22 competitors in a race!

[url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/devon/3814991.stm]
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/devon/3814991.stm

Edit - It didn't say anything to me though.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/devon/3814991.stm

Holsworthy? A 'd' missing perchance? I think we should be told.

lol

Sano

'You, sirs, are a pair of cunts...' he types, while lounging in the sun on the balcony of his Alpine retreat...

:p

recent pics of sano in his alpine retreat

ihatelaw I saw a guy on Stamford Street riding low on a road bike with aero bars. Each aero bar had a wing mirror affixed to the end, where the shifter should be. I was just like, "words fail me".

I bet he likes to masturbate in front of a mirror as well. In an aero tuck.

ads I just had one today, cycling down Park Lane about to go right (in the right lane), a bloke (looks like borat) leans out the window of his van and shouts "this is right that is left" (in borats voice).

I give him the finger as he was being a nob. The guys then slams on his brakes and trys to pull in front of me. A load of 4X4 them start hooting him as he messing up the traffic flow, by which stage I had passed him, and he revs up and zooms past me again, then tries to spit on me but instead it blows back into his face. Such rage, amazing.

That's weird, yesterday I was waiting at traffic lights, heard an engine rev behind me, was 2 likely-looking lads in an old golf. didn't think anything of it until the lights went green, at which point they pulled in really close as i was setting off, wound down the window and shouted Y'AALRIGHT into my ear, obv an attempt to scare me off the road or something.

I caught up to them at the next traffic lights, noticed their window was wound down still, so I said in a jovial manner "well yes, actually I'm very well thank you, and yourself?" and casually cycled on to much honking and engine revving, so much in fact that the car in front got scared and almost pulled across my path.

pillocks.

The best thing ever said to me on a bike is now 'Have you got a delivery?' by the armed police at my work this morning. It was a joy to explain that I was in fact a civil servant and not a messenger. I am happy - I have my validation, hahaha.

:/

So thanks to my bitches for building my fashion wheels up fully yesterday! My bike is now being taken seriously, without its diddy circus wheels on.

asm
I caught up to them at the next traffic lights, noticed their window was wound down still, so I said in a jovial manner "well yes, actually I'm very well thank you, and yourself?" and casually cycled on to much honking and engine revving, so much in fact that the car in front got scared and almost pulled across my path.

pillocks.

Taser gun moment. "zssssst zsssst"

Soweto888 Pulling up to a set of traffic lights on the road bike yesterday, out of the corner of my eye, I could see the driver's window of the car next to me winding down. "Here we go," I thought, fully expecting an argument about something or other. So imagine my surprise when the driver said, "You were doing just over 35mph there. I'm really impressed." Aw, it's cool to be a hero figure...even if it is to a balding, bearded Vauxhall Corsa owner in his late 50s. I was so close to asking for his phone number. :-)

you missed out the bit when he asked you to a lemon party and if you like gladiator movies.

had an auld fella, late 40's early 50's crossing in front of me down along the kings road, compliment me on my plume vainqueur hat (many thanks simon c), and that good belgium bike shop, and commented on the fact I was riding fixed. Made my morning. Alas he said his bike had been stolen only last week, and I was too slow to give him a lfgss spoke card, so he might have joined up and sourced a bargain bike on here.

bikenut when taking my bike in through the reception at work some fat lardy arsed manager thinking he was being amusing saying ' get off and milk it' , Ha fcking ha! he has to get the lift up to the 1st floor cause he's too lazy to walk, too much fcking red wine and resturant food.

Allow me to shed some light. I think he may have been referring to a famous (if you're over 35) quote that John Wayne was alleged to have said in one of his Westerns but apparently never did:

"Get off your horse and drink your milk." — a character played by John Wayne in one of his root'n, toot'n, shoot'n, yarns

=)

vic The best thing ever said to me on a bike is now 'Have you got a delivery?' by the armed police at my work this morning. It was a joy to explain that I was in fact a civil servant and not a messenger. I am happy - I have my validation, hahaha.

:/

So thanks to my bitches for building my fashion wheels up fully yesterday! My bike is now being taken seriously, without its diddy circus wheels on.

650 aren't exactly menacing size wheels still ;)

ihatelaw I love all the pictures of people commuting on FS bikes with full face helmets. They've got me thinking, what's the best addition/customisation/innovation you've seen on a fluoro commuter's bike?

There is some guy I have seen riding through Lewisham at about 07:40 a few times on a mbt with what seem like small 12" plastic dustbin lids mounted over each grip on the handlebars loads of mirrors some random plastic containers strapped to his rack. Bike must weigh a ton.

TheBrick(Tommy) [quote]ihatelaw I love all the pictures of people commuting on FS bikes with full face helmets. They've got me thinking, what's the best addition/customisation/innovation you've seen on a fluoro commuter's bike?

There is some guy I have seen riding through Lewisham at about 07:40 a few times on a mbt with what seem like small 12" plastic dustbin lids mounted over each grip on the handlebars loads of mirrors some random plastic containers strapped to his rack. Bike must weigh a ton.[/quote]

Yeah I have seen this guy too. He goes so slowly and his crazy tricked out bike.

There is some guy I have seen riding through Lewisham at about 07:40 a few times on a mbt with what seem like small 12" plastic dustbin lids mounted over each grip on the handlebars loads of mirrors some random plastic containers strapped to his rack. Bike must weigh a ton.

Sounds like a trendsetter?

I've actually got some gnarly old MX goggles with hologram monster eyes. And some of the ones with tear-offs I actually think it would be funny as hell to go through a few on my morning commute up Southampton Row.

Actually, I do often wonder how come other riders don't wear glasses always, I mean like the one time I didn't wear glasses, about a year ago, I got stuck behind this truck carrying wood chippings and they all got in my eye...

I always do but then I'm one of the sensible, self-preserving types.. usually..

TheBrick(Tommy) [quote]ihatelaw I love all the pictures of people commuting on FS bikes with full face helmets. They've got me thinking, what's the best addition/customisation/innovation you've seen on a fluoro commuter's bike?

There is some guy I have seen riding through Lewisham at about 07:40 a few times on a mbt with what seem like small 12" plastic dustbin lids mounted over each grip on the handlebars loads of mirrors some random plastic containers strapped to his rack. Bike must weigh a ton.[/quote]

I've seen him!

yeah, my mate reckons they're like those MX guards to stop you hands getting cold/wet/smashed by flying debris

Plenty of strange people on bikes out there

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vic The best thing ever said to me on a bike is now 'Have you got a delivery?' by the armed police at my work this morning. It was a joy to explain that I was in fact a civil servant and not a messenger. I am happy - I have my validation, hahaha.

:/

So thanks to my bitches for building my fashion wheels up fully yesterday! My bike is now being taken seriously, without its diddy circus wheels on.

where do you work? i hated pic ups at the house of parliment, and drops at revenue and customs more then anything.

and being mistaken as courier is not validation.

RPM [quote]TheBrick(Tommy) [quote]ihatelaw I love all the pictures of people commuting on FS bikes with full face helmets. They've got me thinking, what's the best addition/customisation/innovation you've seen on a fluoro commuter's bike?

There is some guy I have seen riding through Lewisham at about 07:40 a few times on a mbt with what seem like small 12" plastic dustbin lids mounted over each grip on the handlebars loads of mirrors some random plastic containers strapped to his rack. Bike must weigh a ton.[/quote]

I've seen him!

yeah, my mate reckons they're like those MX guards to stop you hands getting cold/wet/smashed by flying debris[/quote]

His choice of handlebar protection used to be two basketballs with a slot cut in them. I see him almost every other day on the way into town and then by chance one evening his bike was parked up at the bottom of Bow Street for me to ogle ;)