Originally posted by velocipedio
The moral of the story is that you should never judge a fellow cyclist's strength until you know how many miles he has that day. How fresh were you at that point? How cooked was he? MAybe he didn't respond to you because he'd just done a solo century at 29 km/h, had run out of food and was starting to bonk really bad...
Yes, that is possible, and I wouldn't be surprised if he was a much better rider than me. It's just the way he looked as he passed me with his face less than half a meter from mine. I could care less about being shrugged off by other cyclists for whatever reason.