Just for a laugh, whats your best line or sentence that annoys a biker? Things people have said to you etc. Things like, You can't use all that power on the road. Bikes are dangerous.
A work colleague (who doesn't ride) makes a point of calling me a fair weather rider whenever the weather is stinking / freezing and I am in my car. I admit that I AM a fair weather rider in terms of not risking the fast, twisty unlit rural A road that is the majority of my commute when it is flooded (often), freezing with black ice, pitch black (no fun at all) or there has been a lot of mud or gravel washed out of fields or trees down as happens after storms. So it's not being called one that aggravates me, it's the constant nature and predictability of it . I have my bike for fun and do go out in the cold and rain when I need to - but am not slogging to work in less that safe conditions for 36 miles or so hating every second of it when sometimes the car is just so much better. I enjoyed commuting on my 125 last year in good weather and shall enjoy going in on my Striple this year I am sure.
It doesn't really annoy me, but when a person who has never ridden a bike says "I could never have a bike, I'd kill myself.... I know what I'm like" I think what a twat. If your too chicken shit to even throw a leg over one, then if you actually ever did you're probably going to ride like a nun on Raleigh shopper and stand more chance of falling over sideways than getting up to dangerous speeds.
It IS when the road is flooded and there's mud and branches all over it or it's got lots of black ice.
How long is the extension lead on you vespa? Always winds up my mate with one when he gets asked by someone. For me, bike is a bike btw!
That is what another colleague of mine says...straight after saying "took you a while to overtake me last night mate" if any of his other colleagues go home the same way as him in cars as he drives so conservatively.
I had a dorky schoolteacher incel neighbor of mine say "What is that, some kind of mid life?" when I brought my latest ride home. Meaning- I was trying to validate myself and/or feel young and that it was a symptom of a mid-life crisis. This kind of irked me because he's about my age and like I said- couldn't get laid in his own harem if his life depended on it. Moreover he drives a brand new, day-glow canary yellow 6-banger flash Mustang… "all show and no go." Didn't even have the balls to throw down on a V-8. It's my 4th bike and I've been riding on and off since I was 15, 5th if you count the Honda 250 I was responsible for when I was on a bike team in 1/75. So f*ck that guy. (edit) I'm not in this photo, but same bike, same unit, same timeframe...
The stupidest think I heard: At the time worked in Paris as IT in a big company. Every day I parked among the cars on.. the parking.. One day, been called by the building manager. "Sorry you can't park anymore on the parking" me "Why?" "Because the brother of the boss died in a bike accident" me "If he died in a car crash I would have all the places free". I never parked somewhere else.
