Originally Posted by
andre nickatina
The people with bad cycling ettiquette almost always tend to be on either 1) dept. store mtn. bike 2) beach cruiser or 3) old, totally unmaintained road bike...
This is not an end-all generalization, but it is a decent rule that is typically compatible with reality. You could reverse this rule to our side of the fence and use it to denote that track bike street riders generally have tighter (not necessarily skin tight) fitting clothing or ride with messenger bags or messenger backpacks instead of racks, panniers, and baskets.
And that they're hedge fund brats that blow stop signs and run over peds. I'm not trying to blow this into a hyperbolic debate, but I'm no fan of stereotypes based on appearance. The
vast majority of genuinely bad cycling etiquette I see here is on single speeds, but the only thing I can tell from looking at a single speed is that it's a single speed. The only thing I can tell from looking at a janky bike is that somebody rides a janky bike.