The other type of bike etiquette!

[DJ]

maybe it's just me! (Have I got a funny face)? Maybe I am just not nodding vigorously enough? Or maybe every other B****r out there is completeley miserable? Or maybe it's the area in which I live?

I've never been very succesful at getting other cyclists to give me that courteous nod or smile! I don't expect a full on wave followed by a wobble as they try and control the bike!
Just the nod would be sufficient, there was one day when a couple of people gave me a friendly nod, funnily it was my first time out in the new lycra! Don't know if the two are related? Ever since then though nothing!
So how do others do it? Or are you the ones going around blanking me(paranoiad) sets in as the other CC'ers gang up!

Any suggestions gratefully recieved.

 

[Dayvo]

Go out on a regional CC ride and see if the others blank you, as well!

 

[Chrisz]

Come down this way mate - I always give fellow cyclists 'the nod'

 

[Young Un]

All the cyclists round my way get the nod and also the raised hand to say hello!

 

[DJ]

Based on the answers I will be;
a. getting a face lift
b. moving to Worcester
c. nodding and waving very vigourosly
d going out on a regional CC ride
e getting more paranoid
B)

 

[dudi]

you'll find the "serious" cyclists tend to do that more than the casual bin-man on his way to the yard...

I only ever get "the nod" fromother people in lycra on road bikes... anyone else blanks me...

 

[Chrisz]

I have often seen (and been victim to) the old 'Roadie' vs 'Muddy' thing - whilst on my road bike I get ignred by guys on MTBs and vice versa

 

[DJ]

you'll find the "serious" cyclists tend to do that more than the casual bin-man on his way to the yard...

I only ever get "the nod" fromother people in lycra on road bikes... anyone else blanks me...

Ah maybe I need more Lycra too?

Perhaps my general facial expresssion is slightly knackered looking maybe I have to learn how to smile through gritted teeth?

 

[Keith Oates]

you'll find the "serious" cyclists tend to do that more than the casual bin-man on his way to the yard...

I only ever get "the nod" fromother people in lycra on road bikes... anyone else blanks me...

You wouldn't get many nods out here then!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[DJ]

You wouldn't get many nods out here then!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

No maybe not!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!(why don't they have lycra in Vietnam)?

But you would nod at me wouldn't you Keith?


^There, did you see that I think I did more exclamations than keith.^

 

[tdr1nka]

I've pondered this a lot over the years, I'm also a smile and say Hello
, Good Morning, Lovely Weather, etc. kind of guy.

THB honest you get the same sort of lack of response as a ped with people you pass in the street.

It's a shame you don't often find cyclists giving each other the same acknowledgement as, for example, VW camper van drivers who will wave and flash lights when they pass.

 

[Auntie Helen]

I always acknowledge other cyclists (living around country lanes it's not that there are zillions of them the whole time). I tend to find that ordinary pootling-along cyclists nod at me or say hello. The mediumly-serious looking ones in their lycra tend to blank me. The mega-serious cyclists with super-skinny tyres and legs like mountains do give me a wave or say hello. So obviously there's a middle area where people are too special to acknowledge a woman on a trike, and perhaps that goes for other cyclists.

 

[swee'pea99]

As a commuter in London, I'd been on the daily run for about six months when another cyclist said hello. I was so taken aback I nearly fell off.

 

[badkitty]

maybe it's just me! (Have I got a funny face)? Maybe I am just not nodding vigorously enough? Or maybe every other B****r out there is completeley miserable? Or maybe it's the area in which I live?

Any suggestions gratefully recieved.

All of the above.

I've got the opposite problem. I get waved at so often now(by cars, peds, and the only cyclist from the other village) on the school run that I end up bewildered trying to work out who these people are and do i know them?

(to the nice man in the brown car this morning who slowed down just to wave vigorously at me...who the h*ll are you? Never seen you before in my life...I only waved back because I automatically thought I must know you, and it's taken me all day to realise that I dont!)

I think it helps being the only cyclist/mad woman with a kid on the back in the village or town... You get a special status.I think it's a bit like being the town loony...

 

[DJ]

I always acknowledge other cyclists (living around country lanes it's not that there are zillions of them the whole time). I tend to find that ordinary pootling-along cyclists nod at me or say hello. The mediumly-serious looking ones in their lycra tend to blank me. The mega-serious cyclists with super-skinny tyres and legs like mountains do give me a wave or say hello. So obviously there's a middle area where people are too special to acknowledge a woman on a trike, and perhaps that goes for other cyclists.

What you are suggesting here is that there is a snobbery even among cyclist's !!! That is ab....abon....terrible! I shall work from now on to do away with the class system that is clearly creeping in to cycling I will wave regardless of the state of their bike!