View Poll Results: How do you handle the need?
Hold it till I get to the top of the hill
0
0%
Voters: 13. You may not vote on this poll
Passing on a steep hill
07-09-14, 07:25 AM
#2
Senior Member
Hills are enough of a challenge, I don't need to make it "worse". If I do come across a slower person, then I will keep my regular pace, only going faster if the space is narrow and I don't want to stick out into traffic but then slow down to regular pace. If he/she doesn't like me passing and want to race, then, IT'S ON BUDDY!!!, just kidding, I'll just let them have at it without me.
07-09-14, 07:31 AM
#4
Member
Join Date: Jul 2013
Posts: 37
Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 0 Post(s)
Likes: 0
Liked 0 Times
in
0 Posts
I am not sure I understand the answers, but, if the person is close to my speed, I will will maybe slow down and just trail them. There is no point in throwing down the challenge flag on a hill.
If they are really dragging ass up the hill, I will pass them.
If they are really dragging ass up the hill, I will pass them.
07-09-14, 07:33 AM
#5
Senior Member
Thread Starter
Join Date: Jan 2013
Location: Atlanta, GA. USA
Posts: 3,804
Bikes: Surly Long Haul Disc Trucker
Mentioned: 2 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 1015 Post(s)
Likes: 0
Liked 1 Time
in
1 Post
I thought you could tell by the answers. We're talking about passing gas! More of a problem for us vegetarians I guess.
07-09-14, 07:54 AM
#7
Cycle Dallas
Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Land of Gar, TX
Posts: 3,777
Bikes: Dulcinea--2017 Kona Rove & a few others
Mentioned: 1 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 197 Post(s)
Likes: 0
Liked 10 Times
in
5 Posts
My colon was removed due to Crohn's Disease in the late '80s so I have an ileostomy (my kids call it my poop bag). My coworker, at the next desk is a vegetarian and is quite gaseous. He let's them fly and then blames me. I tell him he's showing off. 
07-09-14, 08:02 AM
#8
Full Member
Join Date: Dec 2012
Location: West Palm Beach, Florida
Posts: 263
Bikes: 1984 Cannodale full touring bike, Giant full carbon dura ace, Belinsky frame Tandem
Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 12 Post(s)
Likes: 0
Liked 1 Time
in
1 Post
Whether is gas or a cyclist the answer is the same for me. Pause (access if it's worth my effort) and let it all out. In the cyclist case, I see if he or she is dragging, then I pass all out till I'm ahead, then resume my pace. If it's gas I make sure is just that and if I can assert is only gas, I let it rip! However, like everything, sometimes the strategy fails and you get a challenge up hill or end up doing laundry that day! LOL!
07-09-14, 09:31 AM
#11
Senior Member
Join Date: Apr 2014
Location: Cincinnati
Posts: 96
Bikes: 1988 Centurion Le Mans RS (stolen!), 2009 Bianchi Pista (48-16), 2014 Gunnar Sport (Arrived! Pictures soon!)
Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 0 Post(s)
Likes: 0
Liked 0 Times
in
0 Posts
So we're all agreed then? This is a poll about when and how to fart on hill?
07-09-14, 09:32 AM
#12
Full Member
for me it's the same as when you're driving and someone busts a$$ to get in front of you then they slow down. if you take the slot, you haven't earned it till you can keep it. if you cycle past someone on a climb you better be able to keep it once you've reached the peak. if you can't, then save your energy and pace them, but not so close they're doing the work for you.
07-09-14, 10:06 AM
#14
Senior Member
Join Date: Jul 2005
Posts: 5,992
Mentioned: 26 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 2494 Post(s)
Liked 738 Times
in
522 Posts
Walter, can you not think of anything more worthy of being immortalized on one of Bike Forums servers for as long as The Grid holds up?? I mean... really? Farts? Clenching... my teeth...
07-09-14, 10:16 AM
#15
Senior Member
Thread Starter
Join Date: Jan 2013
Location: Atlanta, GA. USA
Posts: 3,804
Bikes: Surly Long Haul Disc Trucker
Mentioned: 2 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 1015 Post(s)
Likes: 0
Liked 1 Time
in
1 Post
OK, I admit to being a bit juvenile - a quality I hope to die holding intact!
07-09-14, 10:24 AM
#16
Banned
You just talking about some person slower on the hill than you are right? 
"Rolling Coal" from monster trucks, blowing Diesel smoke in your face, who is going to notice. ?
"Rolling Coal" from monster trucks, blowing Diesel smoke in your face, who is going to notice. ?
07-09-14, 10:32 AM
#17
Senior Member
OK, so I checked out this post to see what others had responded when I noticed that I too had misinterpreted "passing" and as I was reading the other responses, I noticed I was listening to a song, the chorus of which is "[you] only know you love her when you let her go" but the singer wasn't pronouncing the second "her" very well so all I heard, appropriately for this post was, "[you] only know you love her when you let it go".
Ain't that the truth!!!
Ain't that the truth!!!
07-09-14, 10:38 AM
#20
Senior Member
Thread Starter
Join Date: Jan 2013
Location: Atlanta, GA. USA
Posts: 3,804
Bikes: Surly Long Haul Disc Trucker
Mentioned: 2 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 1015 Post(s)
Likes: 0
Liked 1 Time
in
1 Post
OK, so I checked out this post to see what others had responded when I noticed that I too had misinterpreted "passing" and as I was reading the other responses, I noticed I was listening to a song, the chorus of which is "[you] only know you love her when you let her go" but the singer wasn't pronouncing the second "her" very well so all I heard, appropriately for this post was, "[you] only know you love her when you let it go".
Ain't that the truth!!!
Ain't that the truth!!!
07-09-14, 10:44 AM
#21
Senior Member
Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: South Central PA
Posts: 972
Bikes: Cannondale Slate 105 and T2 tandem, 2008 Scott Addict R4, Raleigh SC drop bar tandem
Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 22 Post(s)
Likes: 0
Liked 1 Time
in
1 Post
Hey, if you cannot pass outside, where can you pass? Now in a pace line, it's just rude to not go to the rear...
07-09-14, 11:05 AM
#25
Senior Member
I light it off. Rocket power!