Originally Posted by
Dean V
You are right. They certainly didn't act like friends (or even decent humans). But unfortunately it is fairly typical "roadie" behaviour.
Originally Posted by
woodcraft
I hear you & have been there,
just surprised that you sounded surprised about a common dynamic.
I was kind of on the other end last weekend, when a group of 5 or 6 went a bit faster than advertised.
One guy hung back with the newish, slower rider, & it worked out fine.
Yes, it is a common dynamic, and I should be used to it... for the purposes of full disclosure, one of the hammerheads was actually a family member. Some anonymous roadie acting like an *** happens all the time and we all laugh about it later. But this wasn't that, it was a family member, and close friends. The family member typically looks to me for advice on group riding because I have more experience, but he doesn't seem to think that there was anything wrong about what he did. I posted here because I thought maybe I was being too sensitive or rigid or something.