rmfnla

My wife and I ride the streets and she gets pissed when we get passed unannounced.

I'm just glad to see her angry at someone else for a change...

plumberroy

goenrdoug : To me, morning Hi any greeting to alert is fine on places where it is a rule to alert ,

Off topic a little, there is a breezeway connecting several building where a work people often lock there bikes there. as it is under cameras too I noticed a Bianchi setting against the rail . As it was the first one I had seen I stopped to check it out . they had black electrical tape over the head badge and every name decal like that would keep some one from realizing it was a nice bike

bruce19

Sure, that would be nice in a perfect world. In the meantime I will let people know I"m there in the hope that it might dissuade them from taking me down.

bbbean 

Do you also say "excuse me" every time e you walk past someone? Honk at every car you pass on the road?

bruce19

Of course. You don't?

bmcer

You know what? Life is just too short and sweet to get your knickers in a knot over the fecundity of idiots.

Yours is the only behavior you can control. Don't let others do it for you.

rousseau

Are awesome.

Nobody cares.

Irrelevant.

They also suck. Most. Boring. Team. Ever. But the colour of their bidons looks good on my bike.

Preferred when training. I came to realize that I don't want a mini-pump or anything hard stabbing me in the back if I take a fall.

Correction: Campagnolo Scirocco wheels. They're awesome.

Nobody cares. Because it's a hot bike.

Nachoman

OP, good job on the topic. Seems to have struck a cord.

kpotier16

I completely agree with this rant! People who do this are just plain annoying. If people are riding side by side, I wiil of course say on your left, but when someone is riding by themselve, it is expected that they ride on the right. Apparently this is too hard of a concept for some people. Or they are just mad because a guy wearing a t shirt and basketball shorts just passed them at 20+ miles per hour on a bike from 1972.

SpeshulEd 

It was a joke. But you're right, no one cares, because the bike is far from hot.

Zing!

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bakes1

That bike is hot. All kidding aside.

Fastfwd01

Well, in full disclosure - I'm using caffeine again and possibly a little more irritable than normal or it maybe just gives me more of a hair trigger under my general living conditions. I don't go out looking for ways to make 'cyclists' look bad, but I'm not looking to be a cycling role model either. I think personally there is a little too much of this burden that everyone is expected to be some sort of ambassador of cycling to the world or something and I don't claim to be an ambassador for cycling really. I'm already judged for enough dumb stuff that I should never be criticized over in the first place.

I might have actually expected more backlash on here for ranting on this, but I might guess that I'm speaking for others who feel more inclined to try to be the aforementioned ambassadors of cycling. I don't really mind being the one to say it here or to the dorks who think they need to scold me out riding.

If it's not clear - I get it, ok? I realize that it's to my benefit to announce myself and I try to when I sense there is a hazard due to conditions. That doesn't mean every single slow cyclist gets a personal announcement that I'm about to blow past you. I blow past a lot of you out there. I get blown past too and not everyone announces it and I don't cry about it when they don't. I feel more ashamed that I'm getting passed usually than feel some nerdy compulsion to scold somebody over the etiquette of cycling.

There have been incidents where I have been lucky that I didn't get turned in front of too and I would have been at fault if I rammed them. I can think of at least two such occasions, but I've also ridden about 3,800 miles this year so far mostly on the MUTs around here and I suppose it goes with the territory to some degree and I've learned from those incidents - which were at intersections btw when people were turning and I didn't expect it and I was about to roll past them.

jsjcat

Drope it big time!!!!

WNCGoater

This

WalksOn2Wheels

This can not be stressed enough. Arundel cages are the correct cages. And no, they're not paying me for this, but I wish they were.

EDIT: Oh, and the bike is most definitely not hot. The Ergo bars kill it for me.

SpeshulEd 

Haha, the whole thing was a joke as thats the craziness you hear in the hot r not threads, but some people are so uptight about their bikes it's hard to have any fun.

Obviously, how can an entry level frame with early 2000 tribal style graphics not be hot. I mean, tribal tattoos were definitely the hottest tattoos.

PepeM

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rmfnla

This is why runners should run facing traffic, but for some reason they refuse to do so...

Nachoman

Personally, I'd rather deal with vehicles. Runners are squirrely and unpredictable. T

rmfnla

Apparently they've never heard of "hold your line"...

bt

not to mention the the stuff they pull when running.

indyfabz

I want some of what you're smoking.

kbarch

Still, it often seems like a strain to keep quiet; no one wants to capitulate, and the temptation is to bark back. But is there a way to respond to simply relieve the animosity? One might ignore them and just say "good morning" or whatever, but one isn't always feeling so cheerful or generous. Perhaps the next time someone tries to tell me how to ride, I'll just say "maybe next time!"

bbattle