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Dibdib

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Re: Oiks shouting stuff at cyclists
« Reply #825 on: 12 January, 2015, 05:58:32 pm »
Thread resurrection is always OK!

Your tale brings up questions about desirability/suitability of 'NCN' for sole/vulnerable/female  any travellers

Absolutely. While I'm usually happy to use the NCN (and other) cycle paths around Swindon, and they're usually well-lit, there are bits I still avoid after dark (especially Friday nights). Frankly I'd prefer to rough it on the main roads than risk getting jumped half-way down a path with no escape routes.

Sadly one stretch in particular seems to keep appearing in the local news, for rather tragic reasons :(

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Re: Oiks shouting stuff at cyclists
« Reply #826 on: 20 January, 2015, 09:03:53 pm »
Oik1 to Oik2: "That bike's bloody low..."
Oik2 to the world in general: "THAT BIKE'S BLOODY LOW!"

I was of course riding the...

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Re: Oiks shouting stuff at cyclists
« Reply #827 on: 20 January, 2015, 10:03:57 pm »
Hmm.  How low can you get?   :)
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clarion

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Re: Oiks shouting stuff at cyclists
« Reply #828 on: 22 January, 2015, 02:23:22 pm »
Depends on how tight the seatpost qr is.
Getting there...

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Re: Oiks shouting stuff at cyclists
« Reply #829 on: 22 January, 2015, 02:32:07 pm »
Depends on how tight the seatpost qr is.

And whether you've applied IPA[1] to the seatpost recently.


[1] This is one of those rare cases where either kind should have the desired effect.

Re: Oiks shouting stuff at cyclists
« Reply #830 on: 25 January, 2015, 01:16:08 pm »
Yesterday, on the Tannenbaum1, as usual, a better class of call out.
Dereham, normal for Norfolk
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That's the sickest bike I've evah seen mate! Can you take me for a ride!

Attleborough. Youths near the station.
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Daddy daddy daddy! Mummy Mummy! Daddy daddy daddy!
I don't even.


1:autocorrect ftw.

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Re: Oiks shouting stuff at cyclists
« Reply #831 on: 25 January, 2015, 01:24:07 pm »
Everybody loves a Tannenbaum  :D

Re: Oiks shouting stuff at cyclists
« Reply #832 on: 01 February, 2015, 06:35:12 pm »
Wasn't an oik, just another cyclist.
Slogging into the wind today on my bent trike and was passed by two cyclists on upwrongs.
In passing one of them said to me "At least your aerodynamic".
I patted my stomach and took it as a complement ...........   :P

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Re: Oiks shouting stuff at cyclists
« Reply #833 on: 03 March, 2015, 10:42:34 am »
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ON-ONE POMPINO! BEST BIKE IN THE WORLD!

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Re: Oiks shouting stuff at cyclists
« Reply #834 on: 21 March, 2015, 12:05:24 am »
Quote from: A. N. Other random sprog
Marmite jacket!

Re: Oiks shouting stuff at cyclists
« Reply #835 on: 24 March, 2015, 10:45:36 pm »
"Bloody Cyclists" from the passing Fiat Punto on leaving the rehearsal this evening.


Thanks Rob.

Si_Co

Re: Oiks shouting stuff at cyclists
« Reply #836 on: 25 March, 2015, 09:03:27 am »
Young lad in Moss Side "Nice bike...wanna sell it?"

handcyclist

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Re: Oiks shouting stuff at cyclists
« Reply #837 on: 25 March, 2015, 06:26:28 pm »
'GET ON THE CYCLE PATH YOU PRAT'

Nothing unusual there - oh, except

It was 8.45 am on a Sunday.
The road was wide, two way and quiet.

and, to cap it all off,

He wasn't even driving in the same direction as we were riding.

Actually I was on a charity ride with 500 odd riders, he might have spent the rest of the day shouting ......  ::-)
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Piemaster

Re: Oiks shouting stuff at cyclists
« Reply #838 on: 30 March, 2015, 05:30:22 pm »
Oik walking in opposite direction "Oi mate. Your bike's shit.'
..err..thanks for your thoughts. Ok,it's a mere Voodoo Hoodoo, but it ain't that bad.

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Re: Oiks shouting stuff at cyclists
« Reply #839 on: 30 March, 2015, 05:32:58 pm »
"Where's your bike from?"  Amongst other incoherent shouts from a pair of middle-aged pavement cyclists, as I slow-motion dropped them at an awesome 8mph uphill.

Re: Oiks shouting stuff at cyclists
« Reply #840 on: 04 April, 2015, 07:57:51 pm »
"I like that. What a beauty"

And then wolf whistle.

From a youth in traffic as we coasted up the bus lane.

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Re: Oiks shouting stuff at cyclists
« Reply #841 on: 04 April, 2015, 08:05:48 pm »
"Gwan yer nutter!" in full football voice from the driver of a waiting car as I heroically rounded a corner at about 5mph.

Also "[inaudible] darling." from a passing van.  I doubt it was a Blackadder quote.

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Re: Oiks shouting stuff at cyclists
« Reply #842 on: 09 April, 2015, 08:07:36 pm »
"G'wan girl!" In the football voice.  Again.

paul851

Re: Oiks shouting stuff at cyclists
« Reply #843 on: 11 April, 2015, 09:49:39 am »
"Tour de Halifax" as the Calderdale ctc Thursday ride went past the Barum top Inn  ;D

Paul

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Re: Oiks shouting stuff at cyclists
« Reply #844 on: 11 April, 2015, 02:17:25 pm »
Some sprog shouted something about Bradley Wiggins at me yesterday.

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Re: Oiks shouting stuff at cyclists
« Reply #845 on: 13 April, 2015, 01:37:23 am »
Some sprog shouted something about Bradley Wiggins at me yesterday.

If anybody shouted anything about Bradley Wiggins at me yesterday it would have to be because they had some strange neurological condition where they were unable to recognise anybody's facial features apart from their beards.  (I would guess "pogonagnosia" but i think that would be the opposite of the thing I'm describing)

The one thing that was shouted at me and a few others (on an Audax on Saturday) by one amongst a bunch of youthful oiks on scooters was "I don't know where you're going".  Which lead to me thinking "No, you don't", and a little later "... and you wouldn't believe us if we told you!"
You are in a maze of twisty flat droves, all alike.

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Re: Oiks shouting stuff at cyclists
« Reply #846 on: 13 April, 2015, 02:37:35 pm »
Some sprog shouted something about Bradley Wiggins at me yesterday.

If anybody shouted anything about Bradley Wiggins at me yesterday it would have to be because they had some strange neurological condition where they were unable to recognise anybody's facial features apart from their beards.  (I would guess "pogonagnosia" but i think that would be the opposite of the thing I'm describing)

Beard-based recognition must be pretty common for people with prosopagnosia, I'd have thought.  I'm not properly prosopagnosic, but I'm lazy and primarily recognise people by their hair, which is why I can't follow films about men in suits, and struggle when the middle aged men in lycra turn up on a different bike to last time, or remove a jacket halfway through a ride.

But it doesn't actually work as an explanation, because to a prosopagnosic everyone who looks a bit like a werewolf could be Bradley Wiggins.  The last thing they're going to do is shout names at them, just make awkward conversation in the hope that they happen to mention dating Willow, adamantium, an impressive track cycling career or whatever and can go from there.  Which doesn't work all that well at the roadside.

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Re: Oiks shouting stuff at cyclists
« Reply #847 on: 13 April, 2015, 03:18:45 pm »
The last thing they're going to do is shout names at them, just make awkward conversation in the hope that they happen to mention dating Willow, adamantium, an impressive track cycling career or whatever and can go from there.  Which doesn't work all that well at the roadside.

Why would someone with a beard get romantically involved with my cat?

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Re: Oiks shouting stuff at cyclists
« Reply #848 on: 13 April, 2015, 03:19:51 pm »
I think you'd better ask the cat...

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Re: Oiks shouting stuff at cyclists
« Reply #849 on: 20 April, 2015, 10:33:21 am »
Yesterday, and last week on Sunday rides "Where's your helmet?"
 I've never had that before, is there something going on?