Originally Posted by
njkayaker
It's kind of your responsibility to make sure your skills and inclinations match the group you are travelling with. If you are "bad at taking criticism", then it's even more of a requirement to keep from being the target of it!
Dude, look at the locations
. I'm not the slow rider in question, just offering how it might feel to have been on the other end.
People who are scared, embarrassed, or angry often react badly. And a lot of the time, fixing the miscommunication is very easy when you talk to the affected person after they've had a chance to cool off. And honestly, I find I learn a lot more about where my screwups are when I talk to the person who I pissed off. Sometimes it's as simple as I was a lot louder than I meant to be, or the other person heard me as angry when I was really scared.
We're strangers on the internet. We can't read the slow rider's mind. But BikeArkansas can just go straight to the source.