Originally Posted by
AirPhantomPhoto
I want to say the point of this was it was a woman who was being "drafted" by a male, which without warning is yes, creep factor, to a woman.
How would you dudes like it if women started making comments about your "downstairs kit"? Started staring at you & making comments like dinky dau, little dick, etc? Or stared at your ass & made comments? Its creepy, rude & in many cases unwanted. If OP was standing(?) & the dude was staring at her ass, yeah, no. Fat ass that I am I'd still be stopping & smashing the dude no matter what, but I'm an old heavy gat nasty witch too.
Dudes, think about stuff like this before you pull up behind another person & not announce yourself, even a "hi, riding on your back" is better than nothing. Its not us women being paranoid, we just tend for the most part suffer the creepy stuff. Believe me, even my brick house build ugly mug self suffered it when I was younger.
Preach.
Originally Posted by
AirPhantomPhoto
Comments dont need to be said, as I said "staring at your butt? Or package" OP didnt say that either but as a woman thats the impression I got they may have been doing. Its typical things like that that cross in creep territory. Even if (general) you dont think it is, staying behind someone like that when they speed up for a mile to a mile & a 1/2? Yeah, creep territory.
Now I understand why there are so few women here, much as I hate the r-lettered forum least there the womens cycle group is better
You're dead on. I'm fairly fit and all, but I'm on the wrong side of 50 and my hotness days are long behind me. But it doesn't change the fact that a man I didn't know just appears behind me unannounced and stays there. So, ya, I got a creepy vibe.
I think a lot of guys here are just looking at this strictly from the perspective of one cyclist to another, and I get that. But maybe consider if your wife/GF or daughter was out for a solo ride and you happen to notice some guy all of a sudden keeping pace, unannounced, for a mile or two. Still cool with that?