Cyclists, what has been thrown at you lately?

As if riding a bicycle on public roads wasn’t dangerous enough, rarely a bad attitude car driver or passenger will throw physical objects and or insults at cyclists for no apparent reason.

I was enjoying a beautiful day for a ride in my residential area today and some fool riding by in a car hit me in the back with a large size McDonalds soft drink loaded with large ice cubes. Oh it wasn’t any more painful than being hit with a bag of rocks. It startled me more than anything but ruined my ride. Also that was something that I really didn’t need considering that I had heart surgery 2½ weeks ago.

In the past a kid shot an arrow through my wheel taking out several spokes and another time a bottle was tossed at me from a car traveling at high speed. The bottle missed me as it shattered into a million small pieces. Sometimes assaults with verbal and vulgar insults which can come at anytime for no reason can also ruin a ride.

How about you? What have you lived to tell about? Have you been called “Lance Armstrong” about 10K times over the years like me? Oh don’t you just hate that?