Top Things Drivers Say to Cyclists
Thursday May 8, 2008
What do drivers say when they encounter bikes?
Here are some of the things I hear when I'm out on the road. Notice that they're not all negative interactions - many times I experience courteous and friendly drivers who go out of the way to give me space. And please take advantage of the chance to add your own favorites in the comments section.
- Oops! Sorry!
- Get outta the way, Lance!
- Oops! Sorry! Didn't see you!
- No, you go. . . (as they wave you through a stop first)
- Is that really a Trek Madone you're riding? (okay, that's me dreaming)
- Oops! Sorry! Didn't mean to cut you off.
- %#$%&!!
Add your own favorite - comment below.
Comments
Nice shorts, Lance!
Keep your POS off the road!
Pedal harder, Lance!
What the!?! (as I pass tractors and combines)
Get a bike with a motor on it!!(From a Harley rider who was 150 pounds overweight)
Stay off the road and on the bike path.
How about:
Why don’t you ride on the sidewalk where you belong!
Fag!
Nice legs! (my girlfriend happened to be driving by)
Jerk!
Get outta the way! My taxes pay for these roads! (embarrasingly, I own 3 cars)
Get your ass off the road! (I told him I didn’t own one. He laughed and offered to buy me a burro.)
Get out of my way. (This was especially funny because traffic was gridlocked a block ahead, so she had no “way” for me to get out of.)
How’s your gas mileage? (I told him “Great, unless I eat beans.”)
(Riding on the road) is illegal.
In all fairness, I’ve been getting complements and thumbs up (instead of another finger) over the past year. I ride the same route daily to work and drivers have gotten used to me.
I didn’t see you. (No apology.)
I was on my cell phone.
The road belongs to cars. (I guess motorcycles and trucks don’t count.)
My favorite – Who’s going to pay for the dent in my hood. (After I jumped onto his hood to avoid getting T-boned. No injury to me or bike damage, fairly slow speed. A lucky day indeed.)
I ride a Gold Rush and the comment I hear quite often is, “Nice bike!”
1. Get on the bike path!
2. Move over (when I am riding on the extreme edge already.)
I have a pink cruiser that I like to ride around town and I get comments a lot.
“Mommy, look a pink bike!”
“You’re pretty in pink.”
“Can I hitch a ride,” as he sticks out his thumb. “Sure, hop in my basket,” I say.
“That bike is so pretty.”
“You look very classy.”
All good comments, but surprisingly, I do not get comments at all when I ride my blue hybrid bike.
Nice ass!!!!
After hearing almost everything I thought I could hear, last Monday 5-5-08, I was hit by a car while crossing a 5 lane road in the crosswalk and with the light, the driver of the car NEVER said he was sorry, but blamed me and said “I should not have ridden my bike in front of his car”! My brand new 2000 dollar Gary Fisher Paragon is now junk, but thank the good LORD I am still here to tell about it.
Honking
Ride on sidewalk!!
Get off the road. You belong on the sidewalk.
Pedestrians: Get off the sidewalk.
F**k you!
Get some lights! (I have only two front ones and three back ones)
When dealing with Baltimore drivers on my T.A.Y. Bike Train (Trek,Adams Trail-a-Bike Tandem with an old Yakima trailer as our trunk). “I’ll race you to California, you get one tank of gas!” if that doesnt work my 5yr &/or 6yr old usually says hi.
Tail-gater yells “What are all those gears for?” “MOVE IT!”
You came out of nowhere,and I didn’t see you
To me when im cycling Ive heard ‘Hey, your door is open’