Geosammy

I regret posting this experience and won't post anything of this nature again.

Camilo

Your problem is when you bragged about changing a "recovery ride" into a "hammer fest" to drop someone who was dressed in kit while you were dressed in other shorts. The implication from that little story you told is that you (1) read into the other person some sort of snarky attitude toward you and (2) that you somehow showed him the light by being a faster rider than him.

Am I mis-reading that post of yours about that particular ride? Because to me, it sounded like you were somehow thinking you were better than the other kitted-out cyclist just because you happened to be faster than him.

That's hypocritical of your supposed premise that "My point is that I think that those who think they are better than others and scoff at the newer cyclist because the newer cyclist might not be kitted out is not treating people nicely. "

Sometimes you have to understand that you might have some internal inconsistencies and acknowledge them - because my reading of what you've written indicates that.

Bandera

Geosammy

I've been a member of this forum for a long time and this is my first and last post, of me sharing my experience while riding.
Thank you all for your replies, but it's obvious that I should not have posted my riding experience here.
I should not have wasted any of your or my time with this.

PS, Ride On...

SpeshulEd 

+1, I was going to say the same thing earlier but was too lazy to type it out.

We all have days we need to vent, but I think you were wrong by jumping to conclusions that these people were laughing at you, when you didn't even hear what was said.

Reynolds 

I was on my slick tire MTB with a handlebar bag and some older roadies in full kit passed me slowly. I asked them if I could join them, no problem they said. We rode together for about 1hr and got along quite well. They called me "the mailman" because of the bag, all in good fun.

blue192

I believe in the act of just enjoying the ride and not worry about what the others think of your bike or how you are dressed. If others criticize the way you ride or your equipment then they obviously have too much time on their hands.

Geosammy

I heard what I heard.
It was very obvious to me,
that it was my attire that was being made fun of, by more than one from that group.
The comment which proceeded, was also directly addressed to me.
This behavior was totally uncalled for and rude to say the least.
Personally; I could care less what they may think or say, but that was my experience and of the 20+ years that I've been riding.
I've never encountered this attitude before, or at the least which I can recall.

Rest assured...
I will never post anything of the sort again on this forum.
It was my mistake.

Milton Keynes

I'm still a bit new to serious cycling, and the only group ride I've been on there were all sorts of cyclists, those in full kit, people like me wearing workout clothes, and some just in T-shirt & shorts. Bicycles were anything from high-end Treks to Walmart Schwinns. Yet nobody made fun of anyone else. Had that happened, I'd probably have loaded my bike back up and gone back home. I'm of the opinion that I don't care what you wear or what kind of bike you ride as long as you're getting enjoyment out of riding.

SpeshulEd 

...

Where in AZ did this take place? Depending on the place and time, figuring out what group of cyclists it was might not be all that difficult.

Camilo

I am seriously curious because your experience goes against 50 years of cycling for me.

What did you actually hear?

How old were these guys?

Wileyone 

Sometimes you have to say something though. Otherwise your own self esteem go's down the drain.

caloso

“Begin each day by telling yourself: Today I shall be meeting with interference, ingratitude, insolence, disloyalty, ill-will, and selfishness – all of them due to the offenders’ ignorance of what is good or evil. But for my part I have long perceived the nature of good and its nobility, the nature of evil and its meanness, and also the nature of the culprit himself, who is my brother (not in the physical sense, but as a fellow creature similarly endowed with reason and a share of the divine); therefore none of those things can injure me, for nobody can implicate me in what is degrading. Neither can I be angry with my brother or fall foul of him; for he and I were born to work together, like a man’s two hands, feet or eyelids, or the upper and lower rows of his teeth. To obstruct each other is against Nature’s law – and what is irritation or aversion but a form of obstruction.”




― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

3alarmer 

..
...who let the road forum guys in here ? Nothing good ever comes out of the 41.

I-Like-To-Bike

If only others who repeatedly post about experiencing similar drama while encountering anyone else while cycling would follow this lead.

noglider 

@caloso, very nice.

Roadwanderer

I honestly wouldn't worry that much. It's the internet after all. Sometimes people say things that people have strong opinions on one way or another and the comments reflect that. This was one of those things. I don't think it reflects poorly on you.

Geosammy

I would like to conciser this thread closed/done for me.
It isn't worth the effort for me to continue it.
I feel the fool for posting it and I'm sorry.

FullGas

then just quit typing...duh.

3alarmer 

...used to be a feature of the software where deleting your original post would make the thread disappear. Not sure that's still the case, but you could try it.


Biekforooms is the only place on earth where you can talk about being insulted by Spandex clad morons, and have a bunch of Spandex clad morons come in and insult you about it.

Machka 

I like that.

Cyclist0084

To those posters who say they don't believe the OP.....why not? What reason would he have to lie? And to those who say they've never experienced being derided by another cyclist, no matter how they were dressed, or those who claim they have never seen it happen, just keep this in mind...it could happen. All because something hasn't happened to you(yet) doesn't mean it never will.

I've been riding bikes since I was 10 years old, almost for 42 years now. I was only made fun of once, back when I was in high school. It hasn't happened since. That's not to say it won't happen tomorrow or a few years from now. Anything is possible. If it ever would happen again, I'd handle it the same way I did back when I was a pimple faced teenager; with a smile and a wave and then be on my way.

Machka 

+1

That's what I read too.

Machka 

My guess is this ...

When people want to hear something, they do.

So in this case, the OP is quietly running an inner dialogue thinking about his clothing etc. and speculating that roadies in full kit might look askance at him dressed like that, and perhaps feeling a bit self conscious as people who are new to a sport or activity often do feel. So when the group of roadies shouted something, he presumed they said something about clothing ... but it was quite possibly a different word entirely. Then they started laughing, the first thought was "here we go, they're laughing at me" ... but they were probably laughing about something else entirely. And then they shouted something else that sounded to him like "nube" and again, it was probably something else entirely. Distance, wind, road noise, etc. can also play a part.

So he believes he heard/experienced all that ... but chances are it wasn't that at all.


It's kind of like people who post the entire sentences they heard people shout at them from a moving car. You heard all that? Really? All I usually get is "alfkjaf cewljer ROAD werjlajer vovuaodf"

BillyD

I was in Azzi a couple weeks ago, but alas I did not ride or I might have gotten caught up in this travesty.