Originally Posted by BikeWNC

I'm pretty sure most everyone knows a sandbagger. Someone who says things like, "I'm coming off the couch", or IDK, 40 miles seems like a really long way", only to proceed to kick your butt on the ride. I ride from time to time with a guy that is always coming "off the couch" Even when I was training, with a coach, in the best shape of my life, he would hammer me into the ground often while saying the ride was the longest he had ridden in a year, yada, yada, yada. Last time we rode, it was a classic 60 mile loop over the mountains behind my house. It was an early season push for me, my main goal to just get through the distance and climbing. My friend said he hadn't been on the bike all winter.

Well on the long climb up the ridge, as I tried to hold his wheel, he starts telling me about a recent ride he did with a local Cat 1, a 80 mile mtb epic that took 15 hours and finished with headlamps. So much for not riding all winter. Later on in the ride he let slip about a climb up Mt Mitchell and back. Anyway, I got the idea he had more miles in his legs than first told. I suffered through our ride, he barely broke a sweat. I guess I don't understand why some people feel the need to sandbag but I'm often happy for the company and take my lumps. Any else know riders like this one? (no, it's not NealH, I know he rides)