whats general etiquette for riding on someones wheel ?
11-02-12, 04:13 PM
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Close enough.
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Yes ... and every time I've been "stealth drafted", it has been a guy on my wheel. I'm a female, and not the fastest rider out there ... so when I discover that there's an unknown male rider on my wheel, I have to wonder why.
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I fart at wheel suckers. For me it is like a blast of JATO..for the wheel sucker it is blast of beans from the previous night meal.
It is a total win-lose proposition!
It is a total win-lose proposition!
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I don't mind someone drafting. It doesn't happen all that often...I'm usually the draftee!
but i notice some older guys, in particular, who start by drafting, then try to pass you, then drop back. These are the guys with expensive bikes but no real skills...
I say, either pass me or get behind me, but stop crawling up my butt, you're endangering my life!
but i notice some older guys, in particular, who start by drafting, then try to pass you, then drop back. These are the guys with expensive bikes but no real skills...
I say, either pass me or get behind me, but stop crawling up my butt, you're endangering my life!
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Guess I'm one of the older guys now.
But I will say it ain't just the old guys, I have lots of young dudes draft for miles then sprint around only to fade within 1/8 of a mile.
I'm an old guy and I draft maybe 1% of the time and that's anywhere from 4000-7000 miles per year (over 16 years). I feel that if I ride my bike, I'm riding for a reason, to get a workout so I'd rather not draft. Only to take a pic or shoot some video. Otherwise I am always at the front.
I really do get annoyed by the cheeseheads though. I had one guy draft me for 30 miles and wouldn't take a pull claiming he couldn't keep the pace. After the 30 miles, he sprinted around and dropped me, gapped me by maybe 50 yards. When I caught back up I asked why he didn't help out instead of sprinting around. He said he wanted to beat me on a Strava segment,WTF!
I had another guy asked me to train for a century with him. I pulled him for 49.5 miles, he too wouldn't take a pull. At that point he sprinted around and dropped me, looking back as if we had been racing. I asked WTF and he said that's just the way he rides, likes to burn himself out at the end of the ride. WTF! Needless to say, the century didn't happen and I never rode with the dope again.
Lots of cheeseheads out there and my tolerance is shrinking.
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I had another guy asked me to train for a century with him. I pulled him for 49.5 miles, he too wouldn't take a pull. At that point he sprinted around and dropped me, looking back as if we had been racing. I asked WTF and he said that's just the way he rides, likes to burn himself out at the end of the ride. WTF! Needless to say, the century didn't happen and I never rode with the dope again.
Lots of cheeseheads out there and my tolerance is shrinking.
Lots of cheeseheads out there and my tolerance is shrinking.
He started drafting me about 20 km into the ride, and stayed back there, without introducing himself or conversing with me or anything, for about 30 or 40 km or so. I tried to slow up and see over my shoulder, but he'd slow up or kind of move out of the way too. We were into a strong headwind so most of the time I just concentrated on making it through the wind, but I would have appreciated it if he would have offered to pull for a little while.
Just as we were rounding a corner which would make the wind a cross wind, he suddenly passed me, and instead of riding at the pace we had been going so I could draft, he picked up the pace and disappeared into the distance.
Whatever. Wasn't like I hadn't done a whole heap of centuries and longer rides on my own already.
With about 40 or 50 km to go, I caught up to him, and he was suffering badly ... struggling into the wind again, and I could tell he was either on the verge of bonking or was inexperienced with that sort of distance. I moved in front of him, and as he latched onto my wheel again ... I picked up the pace and dropped him. I didn't see him again.
My tolerance was pretty low that day.
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Just as we were rounding a corner which would make the wind a cross wind, he suddenly passed me, and instead of riding at the pace we had been going so I could draft, he picked up the pace and disappeared into the distance.
With about 40 or 50 km to go, I caught up to him, and he was suffering badly ... struggling into the wind again, and I could tell he was either on the verge of bonking or was inexperienced with that sort of distance. I moved in front of him, and as he latched onto my wheel again ... I picked up the pace and dropped him. I didn't see him again.
With about 40 or 50 km to go, I caught up to him, and he was suffering badly ... struggling into the wind again, and I could tell he was either on the verge of bonking or was inexperienced with that sort of distance. I moved in front of him, and as he latched onto my wheel again ... I picked up the pace and dropped him. I didn't see him again.
11-03-12, 06:31 PM
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If you're going to bust his ego, you might as well make it little pieces instead of larger, possibly repairable ones.
