Funniest conversations with non-cyclists.

[gr33nt3a]

I had a really funny encounter today with someone and was wondering what some of your funniest conversations with non-cyclists were?

Here's how mine went:

I pick up a pizza on my bike so I stand in line wearing my bike gear including a giant shapeless red rain jacket. A good looking Nor-Cal guy behind me sees my helmet and pizza.

Bro: "Are you going to bring that back on your bike?"

Me: "Yeah, I have a rack. My husband and I always ride so it's no big deal."

Bro: "You are so hot."

I start to leave with a giant grin and I hear him call out to his friend that just arrived.

Bro: "That chick is bringing her husband a pizza home on a bike!"

Bro's Friend: "She's magnificent."


Needless to say this made my day. :)

[redrhodie]

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Bro: "Are you going to bring that back on your bike?"

Me: "Yeah, I have a rack. My husband and I always ride so it's no big deal."

Bro: "You are so hot."

I start to leave with a giant grin and I hear him call out to his friend that just arrived.

Bro: "That chick is bringing her husband a pizza home on a bike!"

Bro's Friend: "She's magnificent."


Needless to say this made my day. :)

That's awesome!

I don't have anything that funny...but once I had a business meeting in my home, and my bike was in the room. It was brand new, and I was so proud of it. The guy looks at it and in a really excited voice says "Wow! Look at those PEDALS!!!"

They're just SPDs (the least exciting thing about my bike). :rolleyes:

[Tuckervill]

That's so funny!!

You are magnificent.

Karen

[Ritamarie]

I love it! Both really good stories!


"Wow! Look at those PEDALS!!!"

ROFL

[Biciclista]

"you just rode 10 miles???!?!... That's a long long ride!" And I'm standing there next to my husband who rode 120 miles yesterday....

[OakLeaf]

Non-runners are funny, too. They'll ask how far you ran, and you tell them, and they go "wow" and their eyes kind of glaze over. Then they ask you where you ran, and if it's locations they know, their eyes get huge and they say, "You ran all the way there?!" They have no idea what 15 or 20 miles really looks like. Happens all the time. :p

[Kubla]

My story is not that as funny as yours, but I'll share:

When it was clear that my comfort bike wasn't what I needed to pursue cycling at the level I had in mind, I told my significant other that I'd taken the plunge and bought a road bike...

John: What?! Now you are going to leave me in the dust on my comfort bike!

Me: You spend a lot of time on the boat on weekends and aren't around to ride with...this will be for my solo rides. When we ride together I'll still use my comfort bike-if it will make you feel better.

John: But...with a road bike, you are going to be able to go faster and for longer rides.

Me: So???? Like I said, I'll be riding alone-I don't see how that threatens you.

John: Um...well...so are you going to end up being Forrest Gump-on a bike?

[Biciclista]

oh Kubla. hope it turned out all right.

[Kubla]

oh Kubla. hope it turned out all right.

Oh yes...all is well. Originally we bought the comfort bikes just to putter around with.

It just happened to turn into more than a casual activity for me-whereas he has his boat to occupy most of his free time during the warmer weather.

[lilly99]

Hi Kubla,

perhaps you could surprise John with a tandem (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tandem_bicycle) bike ride, sounds pretty romantic and makes the time cycling together even more special.

just a thought :)

[marni]

when I die and go to that other place I will be the stoker on a tandem bike with my DH. He is the reason I so enjoy riding solo. He is a love and a dear sweet man and my best friend but deep down inside he has a real problem with T poisoning when we ride together.

If I ride in front he insists he is slowing me down and to just go at my regular speed, but then he is wiped after 10 miles of keeping up with me and I am irritated at having to constantly slow down a bit for him. If he leads he will kill himself for 10 miles to keep " up to my speed" and then bail. At which point I am definitely fed up with him surging and rabbiting to stay "up to my speed."

Our solution is to ride together somehow for10iles and then I peel off and do another 30-50 miles and he dawdles his way home with a stop for coffee.

I am just convinced that wall paper hanging and riding more than 10 miles together unless it is on a charity ride with lots of other people around he can pace with, are just things that are not in our future

[JennK13]

Non-runners are funny, too. They'll ask how far you ran, and you tell them, and they go "wow" and their eyes kind of glaze over. Then they ask you where you ran, and if it's locations they know, their eyes get huge and they say, "You ran all the way there?!" They have no idea what 15 or 20 miles really looks like. Happens all the time. :p

I know what it looks like - me, face down in the gutter!!! For me, double digit miles are done on 2 wheels! :) I envy marathon runners.....

[redrhodie]

when I die and go to that other place I will be the stoker on a tandem bike with my DH.


Ahhhh, heaven. :D ;)

[Kubla]

Hi Kubla,

perhaps you could surprise John with a tandem (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tandem_bicycle) bike ride, sounds pretty romantic and makes the time cycling together even more special.

just a thought :)

Lilly99, There are no tandem bikes in our future, I'm afraid. We tried a tandem kayak once during a watersport demo day, and it did not go well for us. They call them "divorce boats" for a reason. <LOL>

[Susan]

Nice stories :)

Last week we where on a bike tour in a quite large group of 6. This tour has a really nice and long downhill, so we where all on full suspension bikes, some even enduros, everybody had Pads, backpacks with water and food and the guys even wore downhill helmets along with thick clothing because it gets really cold here in November.

On one spot I had to stop and wait for a group of hikers to pass us by. While walking by an old guy asked me: "Do you have a bell?" (I don't, on my MTB.) "Of course you don't! So you could save another 10 grams (less than half an ounce) of weight!"



(I don't know why he would have liked me to have a bell... maybe I could have been standing there, waiting for 2 minutes while ringing at them to speed them up...)

[Eden]

two ladies: (last night in the snow) - you're not going to ride that tonight are you!

Me: (3/4 of the way home, had stopped to knock some ice out of my brakes) - H&ll yes, I'm moving and they're (the cars stuck spinning out on the hill) not going anywhere!

I also had someone yell something like "for gods sake be careful" - silly man.... it was probably safer out last night than usual.... fewer cars and they were all going very slowly.... Yes, I could slip on some ice and fall if I wasn't careful, but I'm a good bike handler (no I didn't fall down at all). I'm positive that it was safer to not be in a car last night..... I wasn't at all likely to crash into a tree or roll over and if my mode of transportation got stuck, I was not only already dressed to handle the weather, I could throw it over my shoulder until I got to a better spot....

[lph]

hee-hee, nothing like being more mobile than the drivers :D

That's my very favourite "why I bike"-point - if something happens to me, the weather, the bike or the road, I can pick my bike up, carry it onto the sidewalk and take the metro home. Try doing that with your car!

[Crankin]

My favorite conversation occurred last summer. The group ride I was on was going to a lunch place that I knew would not have enough room for 50 riders. So, I peeled off and went to a nearby coffee/sandwich place, with the intention of riding home (about 8 miles) from there. I walked in to order my sandwich, when I heard:
(Woman I know slightly from my temple, loud enough for everyone to turn and look at me): OH my G-d! You look like a professional. You rode here, from your house?
Me: Actually I just rode about 41 miles with my club.
Woman: I didn't know you did that (insinuating everyone knows DH rides, but a woman couldn't possibly do what he does). You ride with Mr. Crankin?
Me: (sigh) Yes. OK, I gotta go, it looks like rain moving in.
Woman: Do you think you can make it? Do you want a ride?
Me: No. I am going to have to ride an extra loop, past my street to get 50 miles.
Woman: You ride 50 miles?
(To myself.. Oy.) Me: Have a nice lunch.

[happinesshill]

This was kind of funny...me and my son were riding and had only gone about 8 miles and we turned onto a new road. We mostly ride on back roads and stuff, not the highways. Anyway, there was an old man sitting in a chair on his porch watching us. I called back over my shoulder to my son, "Only 15 more miles to go!" and the old man laughed and said really sarcastically, "Only 15, eh?"

[PamNY]

This was kind of funny...me and my son were riding and had only gone about 8 miles and we turned onto a new road. We mostly ride on back roads and stuff, not the highways. Anyway, there was an old man sitting in a chair on his porch watching us. I called back over my shoulder to my son, "Only 15 more miles to go!" and the old man laughed and said really sarcastically, "Only 15, eh?"

Oh, I can easily imagine that one! Because my late father and all of my uncles could have been that man.

And my mother would have tartly reminded them of the energetic things they did when they were younger...

[hebe]

Reported for spam. Stop scr*wing with my morning enjoyment of this place and nicking other peoples posts is plain rude.

[OakLeaf]

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