Ignorant Riders?

[Radius]

Perhaps it is to do with what you look like, but in the sense that people are more likely to think you want to chat if you look like you're out in order to ride your bike, and not to go somewhere in particular, or particularly quickly (ie commuting, for example)

 

[RedBike]

If you passed me on a duel suspension MTB while I was on my road bike I think I would try and ignore you too. Try and pretend it never happened.

 

[fossyant]

Road bike riders are generally more fussy about the clothes they wear and how clean their bikes are. The show matters.

Guilty as charged.......... I still let onto folk though....

 

[RedBike]

Just remembered. I got passed a year or two ago by a MTBer when I was on a time trial bike with a disc wheel!

In my defence I was on a borrowed bike trying it out AFTER a time trial and I couldn't cope with the side wind.

Must of made the Mtbers day though owning a time triallist!

 

[Dave5N]

I always chase down discourteous riders.

 

[HLaB]

I passed about 3 riders today no nod, very unusual, I then saw another couple, no nod, then another couple, again no nod. Then I realised they were warming up for a TT .

 

[tdr1nka]

I think there are various groups that include the miserable cyclists, the roadie/fixie who's in 'the mode' and those who are too busy concentrating or just in a world of their own.

I find folk are friendlier when the weather is good and the 'great to be cycling' vibe is a lot stronger.
With cycling on the rise in London I'm generally beaming at the number of cyclists I encounter daily, Cycle Chat has given me faith in there being a real cycling community in the UK, I feel a lot of cyclists don't have an experience of this and ride as if it is just them against the world.

 

[3-IN-One]

too busy concentrating

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OR blowing ou of rear end

 

[dellzeqq]

Must have been a 'London Dynamo' day trip...

<Runs, hides, holds cross in front of face etc...>

hahaha

indeed. Is there any other club that is sooooo crap?

 

[Radius]

hahaha

indeed. Is there any other club that is sooooo crap?

Warning bells, sounds suspiciously not like normal Delzeqq...

 

[dellzeqq]

I told this story a while back, and some people got really upset, so here goes. There we are, the Cheam and Morden, average age 60 (and the rest), pootling along, and some numpty in Pearson strip passes us and doesn't say hello. I move to the front, and one of my clubmates yells, 'get him Simon', so I set off, pass him (it wasn't that difficult) and, the fool, he chases me, for about a minute, before blowing up entirely. So our little group catch him up, and we sit at the red light, giggling in a kind of geriatric way, and he sits there not saying anything. Hilarious.

 

[Soltydog]

The grumpy roadie who overtook us yesterday without saying hello wasn't too chuffed when we caught him up the road...he wasn't happy having been chased down by a group of girls, lol! We normally wouldn't bother but he was so grumpy we didn't want to let him get away with it...!

That's the stuff of dreams, getting chased down by a group of girls whilst out cycling :
Whereabouts was this again

 

[dellzeqq]

Warning bells, sounds suspiciously not like normal Delzeqq...

they are sooooo snooty. So snooty. They ponce around Richmond Park (which is, let me just check....a park) and look over your bike out of the corner of their eye. And then...they say 'are you a cat 3?'. What!!!!!

 

[Radius]

I agree, I just wasn't sure how seriously to take your extra 'o's

 

[Kirstie]

That's the stuff of dreams, getting chased down by a group of girls whilst out cycling :
Whereabouts was this again

Naar he wasn't happy at all! Not sure it makes any difference but he had shaved legs...he would have been fine had he just said hello, not swept past us tutting.
It was yesterday late morning, Ansty, Leics