Bestest surreal conversation prize goes to.....

giroist

I don't know why but recently I have been having bizzare conversations with people while riding,I am sure its not just me although I do attract nutters who sit and talk to me on busses my best one was on Sunday some guy telling me that eating stuff was bad for you when riding.So whats your best bizzare/surreal conversation on a bike? Apart from the usual bitching about what people have/haven't said, or done which you always get on any club ride.

pedylan

Your not doing it right, your supposed to blank fellow cyclists with a 1000yd stare. More practice!

Can't say I've ever had anything too surreal but a guy did tag along last year and asked where I was headed. I told him the village where I lived and he told me there were loads of snakes there. Turned out he had definitely (in his opinion) seen a snake when cycling through, so there must be loads was his tack. I said I'd never seen any and I'm still sure all he saw was a strip of rubber in the road. Apart from that he was probably no more a nutter than I am.

Pross

A bloke tagged on to me on a ride and started talking about the shift he'd just finished - nothing surreal there..... except I was in a race at the time (albeit dropped and suffering lol)

1footedninja

Waiting for a train home on a lonely platform in the middle of knowhere after finishing a long shift I got accosted by a train-spotter. I had my bike on me and he had one himself so automatically where best buddies in his eyes.

He proceeded to talk about modifications he had done to his bike, these modifications consisted of a few tie wraps and some bits of rubber.

A train started to come from way yonder down the track and he told me this train should stop here, it didnt. He started shouting at full voice really angry because the train didn't stop, saying 'That train should have stopped here, I should know! as I'm a train spotter!' - which is how I ended up knowing he liked spotting trains.

It was all slightly odd.

TheTalkingTurboTrainer

I came home late from work (or was I out drinking? I forget :roll: ) one night a few months ago.

Some bloke in his PJ's ran up to me just as I was about to walk up the path to my house and goes "Have you heard? Have you heard? Michael Jackson is dead!"

I was like "ummm oh really? That's terrible news".

He goes "yes I'm devastated. Must go find someone else to tell now!"

And ran off down the street :?

Edit: Ops sorry, I didn't read the first post right. I wasn't on my bike so I guess I can't enter. Doh!

Anonymous

Not on the bike but I had a conversation in the pub with a mates brother about how he was jacking in his current job and going back to his old job. When I asked him what his old job was I have no idea ( after 5 pints mind you) if he said Loft insulation or Lift installation. I then had to spen most of the evening talking vaguely about his job as I was too embarrassed to ask which one it was.

pedylan

dmclite wrote:

Not on the bike but I had a conversation in the pub with a mates brother about how he was jacking in his current job and going back to his old job. When I asked him what his old job was I have no idea ( after 5 pints mind you) if he said Loft insulation or Lift installation. I then had to spen most of the evening talking vaguely about his job as I was too embarrassed to ask which one it was.

Could've been tricky; you'd have felt a right prat if you'd been talking to him about loft installation when all along he was a lift insulator.

pneumatic

I was out one Sunday by myself and spotted a cyclist in the distance. I was gaining on him but very slowly and caught him on a downhill stretch, breezing past and saying hello. Thought that was the end of him, but the next challenge was a long hill. Just before the summit, he caught me and we fell into conversation.

After a while he started ranting on about these flash gits who ride about on carbon fibre bikes and spend silly money on Sportives and wouldn't know a CTC hut meet if they landed in the middle of one. Being the owner of a Spesh Roubaix who has never been to a CTC hut meet, I began to feel self-conscious, until I looked down and realised I was on the Winter bike!

After that I just agreed with everything he said and became his best pal! :oops:

CyclingBantam

I was once riding home and met this guy who lived in a village near me. This village is notorious for being full of snakes. Now I was chatting away to this guy about the different snakes that I had seen and he thought he had never seen one! He was looking at me like I was mad. He even claimed one might have been a bit of rubber!!!! Fool.

I think he was just a bit mad......

shouldbeinbed

Manchester to Blackpool on my Birdy a few years back

opening gambit of a 25 mile conversation "Ah, A Birdy, I had a recumbent once too" I gave up listening after that.

Anonymous

pedylan wrote:

dmclite wrote:

Not on the bike but I had a conversation in the pub with a mates brother about how he was jacking in his current job and going back to his old job. When I asked him what his old job was I have no idea ( after 5 pints mind you) if he said Loft insulation or Lift installation. I then had to spen most of the evening talking vaguely about his job as I was too embarrassed to ask which one it was.

Could've been tricky; you'd have felt a right prat if you'd been talking to him about loft installation when all along he was a lift insulator.

I sense irony..............

It was better in the pub.

muffin top

BenBlyth wrote:

I was once riding home and met this guy who lived in a village near me. This village is notorious for being full of snakes. Now I was chatting away to this guy about the different snakes that I had seen and he thought he had never seen one! He was looking at me like I was mad. He even claimed one might have been a bit of rubber!!!! Fool.

I think he was just a bit mad......

Ben's lieing! It was me riding toward the notorious snake village when this loon came along, in complete denial he was ... snake's bloody everywhere they was ... in trees, on bikes, all over ... nutter claimed he'd never seen none. Ben wasn't even there, he was with the giraffes in the next village

pedylan

muffin top wrote:

BenBlyth wrote:

I was once riding home and met this guy who lived in a village near me. This village is notorious for being full of snakes. Now I was chatting away to this guy about the different snakes that I had seen and he thought he had never seen one! He was looking at me like I was mad. He even claimed one might have been a bit of rubber!!!! Fool.

I think he was just a bit mad......

Ben's lieing! It was me riding toward the notorious snake village when this loon came along, in complete denial he was ... snake's bloody everywhere they was ... in trees, on bikes, all over ... nutter claimed he'd never seen none. Ben wasn't even there, he was with the giraffes in the next village

It was neither of you, the guy who tagged along caught me up. To catch me he must have been one of a handful of elite riders in this country, not wannabee posters on a cycling forum.

Now that statement WAS surreal.