Originally Posted by Hickabod
If you're part of a group that promotes cycling, wouldn't you at least think they'd say "Hello" to someone on a bike? I obviously wasnt' part of the group and I wasn't expecting a twenty minutes sales pitch.
I guess I thought cycling was going to be kind of an underdog activity, similar to our local music scene. We go out of our way to help each other and often strangers just passing through. It's one of the more encouraging aspects of the D.I.Y. music scene. I suppose cycling isn't exactly a parallel. Then again, it doesn't always work in the music scene either.
Besides whatever happened to our "Southern Hospitality"? I've received more friendly gestures while riding through "bad" parts of town than through a group of people I thought I'd have something in common with. It was just discouraging, that's all.
Hichabod, here in Seattle, a bike messenger wouldn't normally give me, a 48 year old spandex clad lady the time of day... I'm much to old for them.
Nor would punk fixed speed hard core riders. I ride because it's what I want to do, not how others see me. As an earlier poster said, it's quite possibly that they thought you were commuting, or perhaps they're just a bunch of spandex clad
pr**ks. either way who cares? It's always good to be social but not everyone shares that point of view. Enjoy biking for biking sake and I hope you fall into a group of good riders.