General Cycling Discussion - new recumbent rider in my area...but he won't stop to talk!!!

Periodically I have been seeing this fellow on a recumbent and this is really something amazing since cyclists of any kind are few and far between on my roads, much less a guy on a bent!!! . I have passed him twice on my bike and then of all things yesterday he actually rode past my yard. Here's the thing: I have all kinds of questions I'm dying to ask, like where he's from, how far he rides, bike specs and handling and so on, but the guy wears a walkman and even when I KNOW he has seen me /heard me he never stops or even slows down. The most I've gotten is a 'howdy'. Even if I were out doing a time run I would take a second to stop and chat if I ran across another cyclist and they initiated a conversation.
Should I just chalk this fellow up as a snot and ignore him or keep trying to break the ice?
My husband says maybe my ripped up calves have him intimidated:D

Forget about him........I am just like him on the road...

Try to hop on your bent when you see him once, and catch up. I always like to talk to other bikers when I'm riding, and it is kind of hard to stop when you are in the "zone".

Good luck.

He probably suffers arro-recum-gance, bent-mentia or possibly recum-moronics. I've met guys like him and wished I hadn't. Many of them "look down their noses" at a regular bike. I think that once upon a time I met one that was a fairly OK guy, but I can't remember for sure.

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Pat

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I wish I could say your views renew my faith in the quest for human understanding, but I think the bar is quite a bit higher.

I can understand how psycholist might be put off by the unknown recumbent rider's lack of acknowledgement, but being a recumbent rider myself, I feel you've gotta cut that guy some slack. You have to be a bit of the individualist to even ride such an unconventional bike and then put up with the occasional rib/joke/ridicule from other bike riders for the effort (some develope a coarse skin over this.) And, of course, you don't need to be a recumbent rider to be plain rude, so is it fair to disparage all "alternative cyclists"? I guess we have to answer that query individually...

Well I don't have a bent, but they are intriguing and I do have questions about them . Most fellow bikers love shop talk, or so I always thought, so I guess I will just have to do a 180 next time I meet him and find this out for myself.
I understand "the zone". It's rather comparable to the phone ringing while you're having sex. Do you really want to answer it?