Are we a miserable lot?

[Dogtrousers]

We only ever see your bike when being carried on the roof of your Bentley. We're too busy stading jn the gutter and offing our hats to dare risk eye contact with one as Exalted as you.

Quite, and I don't want to see you doing this again

 

[Drago]

I'm sorry Millord. I saw you there with Accy and couldn't help myself.

 

[Time Waster]

Ah ha! You have fallen into a trap. I'm a poncy 105 rider and you've mistakenly said hello to me. Such an error would never happen on the road!

I say it here to get it over with! I here it might count for say 35 odd people that's 5 people per day per week for just one hello.

Then I'm not getting out on my bike much and possibly more than 35 people might have read it. Just think, that one hello could cover me for half the year! So with that I can be a cantankerous as I want to be on the road in the full knowledge I've met my hello quota on here!

 

[Vantage]

We only ever see your bike when being carried on the roof of your Bentley. We're too busy stading jn the gutter and offing our hats to dare risk eye contact with one as Exalted as you.

You have a hat? Look at you rolling in the money. Us peasants can't afford hats!

 

[Time Waster]

You have a hat? Look at you rolling in the money. Us peasants can't afford hats!

Except for the ones made from folded up newspapers scavenged from rich people's recycling. - said Yorkshireman 1

In our family we could only dream of folded up newspaper hats. We had to walk for half a day to find a tree with leaves to make a hat from. - said Yorkshireman 3

And so on!

Why does things keep degrading into the old four Yorkshiremen sketch type of comments? 🤔

 

[Dogtrousers]

I'm thinking of attaching one of these to my handlebars. Then I can go for a ride safe in the knowledge that I won't upset anyone.

 

[Vantage]

I hate cats.

 

[lazybloke]

I'm thinking of attaching one of these to my handlebars. Then I can go for a ride safe in the knowledge that I won't upset anyone.
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Unless they consider it cultural appropriation.

 

[blackrat]

I ride in Texas and usually get a wave from vehicle drivers on country roads. Not many cyclists on the roads these days though, but when I ride on bike trails I get a nod, finger raised or wave from recreation cyclists but not from those who are in racing mode.

 

[Drago]

I ride in Texas and usually get a wave from vehicle drivers on country roads.

Is that before or after they Rolling Coal you?

 

[Yellow Saddle]

I completely screwed up the other day and think I ruined my reputation and track record. I've just returned from a cycling holiday, and in a moment of weakness responded to being gratuitously greeted by a cyclist coming the other way on the long, lonely moor, by greeting back. In my defense, I only flicked a finger, but unfortunately also made very brief eye contact from behind my irridium Oakleys.


It ruined the rest of the holiday.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

flicked a finger

Fortunately the right kind of finger

 

[blackrat]

Is that before or after they Rolling Coal you?

Maybe once in the last 20 years, so I think it is a thing of the past. Usually perpetrated by low life's, but even they seem to have grown up.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Very American, one finger only

Allows us Brits to continue to brake with one finger as we greet.

 

[Yellow Saddle]

Fortunately the right kind of finger

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Naaah, I'm left handed.