Roadies try to pass and drop you because what roadies do. I'm a roadie oftentimes. What else are we going to do? Huck a loading dock? Ride a skinny in the woods? If your going my speed I'll chat sometimes, but road bikes' only real purpose is to go far, fast. And that’s what we do, sometimes to the exclusion of more sociable activities.
As for wanting things perfect, road bikes are just less fault-tolerant than freeride rigs. If something screws up, we are far from home in shoes we cant walk in. If something is out of whack with riding position we get to try to bend our spinal cord in unpleasant directions for four hours to finish the ride. If something breaks, we hot the pavement at 25 miles and hour. Not to mention that we have cars taking a run at us every thirty seconds. Man, it’s a wonder sometimes we are as nice as we are...
But hey, if you wave, I will wave back. Then I will probably try and drop you.
