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T42

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Re: Oiks shouting stuff at cyclists
« Reply #1350 on: 27 November, 2019, 04:07:21 pm »
In the Vendee on holiday a couple of weeks back, with Hewitt tourer stripped of racks and guards to look like some sort of mutant gravel tourer thing. Out on a Sunday morning, bearded, wearing YACF KOM jersey and Clement casquette, heading towards the coast and expecting the usual local club rides, when younger rider with bike sporting three-spoke carbon front wheel and tri-bars appears at a turning ahead:

MS: Bonjour!
YR: Bonjour, Patron.  ('Hello Boss')

I am taking that as some sort of respectful salutation...

A little late seeing this, but:

Traditional sizing terms in France did not have XL, XXL etc. Instead, large men's sizes were called patron.
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Re: Oiks shouting stuff at cyclists
« Reply #1351 on: 27 November, 2019, 05:09:58 pm »
Are you suggesting that is a colloquial way of saying hello fatty?  O:-)
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Re: Oiks shouting stuff at cyclists
« Reply #1352 on: 27 November, 2019, 07:38:32 pm »
Are you suggesting that is a colloquial way of saying hello fatty?  O:-)
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Re: Oiks shouting stuff at cyclists
« Reply #1353 on: 28 November, 2019, 03:45:39 pm »
Oh.

 :-[

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Re: Oiks shouting stuff at cyclists
« Reply #1354 on: 08 December, 2019, 04:45:26 pm »
Oik unfamiliar with gears-inna-can:  "Cheating!"


T42

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Re: Oiks shouting stuff at cyclists
« Reply #1355 on: 09 December, 2019, 01:24:44 pm »
I used to get similar comments re my SON wheel.
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Re: Oiks shouting stuff at cyclists
« Reply #1356 on: 27 December, 2019, 08:51:26 am »
7:30AM, Yoker:   The worst rendition of "Bicycle Race" ever from a group of still-pissed women making their way home from some party, still carrying their bottles as I rode by in the pissing rain.   ;D

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Re: Oiks shouting stuff at cyclists
« Reply #1357 on: 13 April, 2020, 01:49:06 pm »
Not really shouting, but:

Random: "Is that for TV?"
Me: "Eh?  No, it's a bicycle."
Random: "Sorry, I thought you might be on Youtube or something."

Re: Oiks shouting stuff at cyclists
« Reply #1358 on: 13 April, 2020, 03:41:38 pm »
This was a while ago and could possibly go in a different thread:

I'm cycling along and a car comes behind me and there's someone shouting and the driver makes an excellent wide pass while the someone is still shouting and I can't work out what they are saying and why they are shouting at me while driving so nicely and then I realise that the driver is not shouting at me at all, that's their music...

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Re: Oiks shouting stuff at cyclists
« Reply #1359 on: 22 May, 2020, 12:16:24 am »
Yesterday, from passing car:  "Knob."

Today, from random pedestrian:  "Sick boik, luv."  (In a hybrid Brummie-Yorkshire accent.)

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Re: Oiks shouting stuff at cyclists
« Reply #1360 on: 24 May, 2020, 06:49:28 pm »
More accent-based fun:

Oik: "Give it some!"
Me, mishearing and automatically replying in scouse: "Ge'off!"

(I didn't even have any milk.)

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Re: Oiks shouting stuff at cyclists
« Reply #1361 on: 24 May, 2020, 09:18:30 pm »
Not an oik.  Whilst I was out on Speedy last weekend, I was caught by a chap on a road bike whose opening line was "That thing can't half shift, I've been chasing you since the roundabout..."
Not many things make me laugh out loud these days, but the idea that I was somehow holding this guy off for a mile or so when in fact I was completely oblivious to his presence, just made me hoot.  On the same day, a bunch of mountain bikers who were paused by the entrance to a bit of offroad shouted good-naturedly that I was 'cheating' as I went past. I gave the usual reply that it's the world's fastest deckchair*, which got laughs all round.


*It's not.  I believe Martin-Baker make the world's fastest deckchair.
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Re: Oiks shouting stuff at cyclists
« Reply #1362 on: 25 May, 2020, 08:13:31 pm »
Coasting up to a red traffic light on the Dirty Disco this pm an unlikely looking (in the circumstances) pedestrian started looking intently at me. It wasn't a good feeling and I was ready to scarper when he said "I'd recognise that noise anywhere, are they Hope hubs ?". As I nodded yes and smiled he then said "Nice bike".
Top bloke !

Since accents are being mentioned, his was pure 24 carat, Manc.


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Re: Oiks shouting stuff at cyclists
« Reply #1363 on: 25 May, 2020, 08:59:22 pm »
Yesterday, from passing car:  "Knob."

Today, from random pedestrian:  "Sick boik, luv."  (In a hybrid Brummie-Yorkshire accent.)

I first encountered the "sick" adjective about 7 years ago on a FNRttC to Southend, when I was waymarking on a desolate roundabout on the A1306 a few miles before the M25 Thurrock Services.  Some young lads in a chav-mobile circled the roundabout a few times, chatting to me to find out why there were all the cyclists around.  They were genuinely impressed.
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Re: Oiks shouting stuff at cyclists
« Reply #1364 on: 25 May, 2020, 09:01:44 pm »
It's a rare recumbent ride if you don't get a 'sick'.

Today's noteworthy one:

Men in front garden with beer:  *testosterone giggles*
Young child: "Dad, no!  She might be disabled..."

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Re: Oiks shouting stuff at cyclists
« Reply #1366 on: 01 June, 2020, 01:57:26 pm »
A first for me: "Hello Sexy" (I think).
I'm female but that's the first time I can recall getting that sort of thing while cycling (I'm very aware that this is not the case for a lot of women). Also one "Fuck you". Unusual for me to get shouted at more than once on a ride.

Re: Oiks shouting stuff at cyclists
« Reply #1367 on: 02 June, 2020, 09:48:32 pm »
Standard W⚓, but first one caught on the new-old Fly6 I just got off eBay for £25!


Yes, because being stopped from overtaking for a whole second is worthy of shouting abuse from your window...

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Re: Oiks shouting stuff at cyclists
« Reply #1368 on: 08 June, 2020, 07:15:54 pm »
"That's *so* ghetto!"

It's many things, but ghetto really isn't one of them...

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Re: Oiks shouting stuff at cyclists
« Reply #1369 on: 20 June, 2020, 08:18:35 pm »
I'm getting thoroughly sick of young people asking me to do a wheelie.  Like it's the only point in cycling since the lockdown, or something.

Last week's exchange, by way of illustration:

"Do a wheelie!"
"Don't be a div, it's a recumbent: See, all the weight's at the front, it can't possibly do a wheelie."
"Lie back!"
"..."


Re: Oiks shouting stuff at cyclists
« Reply #1370 on: 20 June, 2020, 10:40:40 pm »
Trundling up Snake Pass from Glossop

Passenger of a well driven car "you're a bit of a bellend" I suggested he suck it but I'm not sure he heard me

Re: Oiks shouting stuff at cyclists
« Reply #1371 on: 21 June, 2020, 12:25:03 am »
"Do a Wheelie" long predates lockdown,  They also don't realise that you can't cycle on your mudguard.

Also, no, I don't know how.
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Re: Oiks shouting stuff at cyclists
« Reply #1372 on: 21 June, 2020, 12:27:23 am »
"Do a Wheelie" long predates lockdown

Of course, but it seems to be all I'm getting from the yoof now.  No more "lying down on the job", much reduced testosterone giggles, but endless requests for wheelies.  Most odd.

I could probably briefly wheelie my mountain bike, not that I've tried.  The late, lamented folding BSO with the stupidly low gearing was prone to wheelie by accident when starting off with fully loaded panniers.

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Re: Oiks shouting stuff at cyclists
« Reply #1373 on: 21 June, 2020, 11:33:19 am »
If you're really pouring on the coals on a SWB in a drag race you can maybe bounce the front wheel an inch or two off the deck.  Until the frame breaks.  No, not mine, two of the three factory Bendtsens at the 93 Eurochamps.
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Re: Oiks shouting stuff at cyclists
« Reply #1374 on: 21 June, 2020, 12:04:57 pm »
I don't have that kind of coal :)