Originally Posted by recursive
Something interesting happened on my evening commute yesterday. I almost never get passed by a bike on my commute, not that I try to race everyone I see. If someone does pass me, I usually just try to follow them for a while to see if I can maintain their pace.
Still on Lunch
Something similar happened to me this past Saturday during a solo ride. I was around mi 17 of my 21miler and I see this guy up ahead. Now, I'm not trying to catch him, but I'm clicking along at 22~25mph in some spots (slight tail wind me thinks) so I catch him fast. I ended up getting bottled behind him at the town center and eventually a red light, he knows I'm there.
When the light turns green, I just expect to go right by him seeing he's been glass pedaling the last mile. Wrong! he drops the hammer as I try to go around, so I moved to his rear wheel and waited for pace to settle where I proceeded to, drop a gear, stand and go!
He ended up getting back on (traffic) as we both yelled at the same car. We talked, he was toward the end of 40mi ride so that would in part explain why he was tooling along. We exchange niceties until the next major intersection where I went straight and he went left.
Sorry for the long post
