Yeah, except that most of the fixie dudes I see have never raced and don’t know what a gap is or why he should be closing it. The roadie guy almost certainly gets the joke, though.
the mitten shit in this thread is hilarious and should be stuck in it’s own goldmine somewhere.
I have had so many awesome things yelled at me.
Of course:
“Get a car you hippie” in the winter when I have a beard
“Get a car you fag” in the summer when I don’t
“GO LANCE”
“Nice bike, fag/hippie”
“get on the sidewalk”
Also:
“fixieeeee!”
“get a fixieeeee!”
“nice ass.”
“nice legs.”
“France is the other way!”
“get OFF the sidewalk!” I laughed so hard at this.
While riding the tallbike: (snarky answers)
“Awesome bike.” (awesome face!)
“how do you get on/off that thing?” (helicopter/parachute)
“what the FUCK!?” (I can only laugh)
“did you make that?” (no, I got it at wal mart)
“get a real bike, jackass.” (lol)
“have you ever fallen?” (yes, just once. It hit my head on the toilet and made this the next day.)
“why would you ride that?” (I can see down your shirt. -or- So I can see in your bedroom window at night.)
While riding my swingbike:
“what the fuck!?”
“dood, what happened 2 ur bike?”
“hey man, ur bike is broken.”
i yelled something at some kid on a fixed gear the other night just because i was drunk and he had no brakes and was riding around with some girl sitting on his top tube.
The best two things I’ve ever had yelled at me happened within the same block. No joke.
- “Fixed gears are for queers!” - Yelled by a kid ROLLERBLADING in the bike lane.
- “You’re riding a girl’s bike!” - Yelled out of a car window by some random. I was not riding a girls bike.
Same block, less than 45 seconds apart.
it was rigged like a Rube Goldberg
“bikes rule! wooooo!” (usually when riding with others.)
“undale, undale, you fucking piece of shit!” (i live in pittsburgh, frat capital of the world.)
“get on the sidewalk, asshole!” (pittsburgh is also pretty ignorant.)
“your bike is illegal. get a fucking brake!” (i run a front brake.)
this thread is so full of win. many lulz
I like yelling
“Get a job”
“hey slow down! don’t ride so fast! can I ride that bike for a little bit?”- some dude on a magna trying to jack my road bike, but I dropped his ass.
“Can I ride that bike? I just want to ride it around the parking lot. you can hold my vodka!” -some drunk russian guy who wanted to steal my fixed gear and give me an empty vodka bottle as collateral.
“I should call the cops you know”- some dumb lady in a station wagon covered with jesus stickers who threw a empty waterbottle at my head while we were both waiting at a stop sign. I took off first and rode in front of her at a painful 5 mph for the next 1/2 mile.
"fuck you crip! -some cracked out bum, referring to my blue sweatshirt, as he tried to dip me off of my bike.
No one yells anything good around here, although one time some overweight guy in a car with a bike rack pulled up next to me and said something like “got a new fixee (with an emphasis on the word fixee) huh? good to see more of us around”
“get off that bike bitch!” - pissed off homeless guy holding up a sign at a stop light (i didn’t know whether to feel sorry for him or yell something fucked up about him being a hobo)
“you are not suppose to be on the fucking road in texas!” -douche bag in a porche at a stop light (i kicked the bumper and flicked him off)
“work them legs baby!” - gross old fart in a sweet ass GTO. (i starred and drooled a bit… at the car that is)
thread should be renamed…
[quote=“RichPugh”][quote=“MASTODON”]Well as a fellow baltimoron, the like messengers hang out more like up past the legg mason building, so my guess is that it was more like just some fixed gear dude, we have more and more everyday it seems here.
What kind of bike was he riding? Hed 3 and a chub hub?[/quote]
Haha nah. I didnt really pay attention. Looked fixed, steel, spoked wheelset… nothing out of the ordinary. I hear the comment from behind us, see him ride around, glance at his bike and just sorts thought “Huh? Did that just happen? LOL”. I’ve ridden up through downtown past the guys lounging outside the buildings up Charles St. Never had anything said to me… and I look like a circus bear on a track bike. We were only like 4 blocks from the Legg Mason building down on Pratt heading to Fells to go to Fletchers downstairs cause the bartender is my friend (fellow track bike rider and long time skateboarder) and they play “Always Sunny” episodes a lot. I wasnt meaning to make a big deal out of it but I was up late and had to share haha.[/quote]
I only asked because I know some dudes who would say some shit like that. heckling is where it is at.
Yes please.
[quote=“Chaba”]
“work them legs baby!”[/quote]
Haha, I’m going to start using that one.
Yelling “F!XIE” at people on geared bikes is fun.
They just give this bewildered look.
Oh god. One time these guys in a work van drove 5 mph next to me as I crawled all the way up College Hill (in Prov) and yelled “Pump it baby! Pump it!”
I quickly turned down a sidestreet and heard them say “awww” or something similar.
fuckheads
I’ve had crackers thrown at me once. They were Ritz’s.