Originally Posted by seypat

Who's to say he was wheelsucking? It was a wicked downhill after all. You didn't detail his size but he and his bike's combined weight might have made him faster down the hill. You could have been holding him up and he was nice enough not to attempt a pass and really create a dangerous situation. Or he could have been wheelsucking after all.

It happens to me all of the time. I am a 5' 8" 200lb heavily muscled sprinter type.(think Cavendish with 30 more pounds of muscle) Fast in the flats and going downhill. But anytime the road turns upwards I will get dropped by everyone. I roll up on people all of the time. But if there is a hill in the near future I have to sit behind them and not pass because once the hill comes they will be passing me back. Then going down the backside of the hill I come right back up on them quickly. They look around and think I am making a race out of it. This is why I announce my intentions early on when I first come up on them.

Which is what you wanted in the first place from the hippie.