Wheel sucker rant
02-26-09 | 01:09 PM
#76
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LOL! I'm not talking about YOU! I'm talking about what I've seen and experienced HERE in NYC. I've seen some REALLY, and I mean REALLY, dangerous stuff going on with those "Lance Armstrong wannabes" (not including just clueless casual riders, bike messengers, etc.) going crazy on overly crowded MUPs here in NYC that put their lives in danger as well as the lives of the other people (mine included) using the MUPs alongside them.
So yeah, I agree, there is a time and a place for riding behaviour like that. I am just making it clear, that I am not "that guy".
02-26-09 | 01:12 PM
#77
I am that guy.
02-26-09 | 01:18 PM
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You miss the point. Some ARE riding dangerously close, though none to my knowledge are actually stalking me. And I *AM* being nice. For the most part I confrom to the normal drafting ettiquite whereby I keep a steady pace, I don't weave, I don't brake suddenly, I take wide paths around road hazzards all in an effort NOT to crash the guy behind me. Just because I am annoyed do not give me the right to deliberately cause them physical harm.
If they are trying to ****/rob/murder/mug/etc. you then that's a completely different story and you need to do whatever it takes to get out of that situation and fast.
I completely understand someone close up on your wheel creating a dangerous situation if you stop short or something, again, that's when you wave them by you, call to them to back off your wheel or pull off the path to let them pass you but spitting in someone's face, farting purposefully or all of those other nasty things that some of the other posters mentioned aren't okay if the wheel sucker isn't putting you into a dangerous situation.
Just enjoy your ride. Wheel suckers be damned, LOL!
02-26-09 | 01:37 PM
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I think we can agree on that. I see guys in full kit on the weekend passing 5 year old kids on tricycles at 20+ mph. They are supreme pricks in my book. A friend of mine, on his first ride on a brand new $2k bike (new rider, but a dentist with some money) was crashed when someone did the same to him on a tight corner (wannabe passed on the inside but could not hold the turn and drifted out into my buddy).
So yeah, I agree, there is a time and a place for riding behaviour like that. I am just making it clear, that I am not "that guy".
So yeah, I agree, there is a time and a place for riding behaviour like that. I am just making it clear, that I am not "that guy".
02-26-09 | 01:43 PM
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NYC & Sac-town, from the sound of it, appears I should be really happy to be living here in the good old rust belt where the people know how to stay indoors and inactivity rules the day.
I pass up maybe two or three riders on my 27 mile commute -- and that's in the summer, on my afternoon ride home. OK, so I am exaggerating a tad, I may pass four or five, not counting the roller bladers and dog walkers. This time of year, I often wish that there was someone to pass.
I pass up maybe two or three riders on my 27 mile commute -- and that's in the summer, on my afternoon ride home. OK, so I am exaggerating a tad, I may pass four or five, not counting the roller bladers and dog walkers. This time of year, I often wish that there was someone to pass.
02-26-09 | 02:56 PM
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