BigJetMech

A guy towing a baby trailer passes you going uphill. The baby in the trailer was more like a small kid. Not that I'm all that but I was like damm, like 1 mile later he was gone!

tribe3

lol, I know the feeling. 15 years ago I was climbing a hill with my brand new $2k Klein... My legs and lungs were on fire and I kept hearing this squeaking noise aproaching me... the noise finally passed me. It was a guy with a black delivery style bike carring a 20lbs gas bottle under his arm.

galen_52657

Maybe there was a little electric motor hidden under the trailer or, he was much fitter than you.

2Rodies

I have to say that I secretly love doing that when I've got the kids in the Burley especially on my fixed gear bike!

Medpilot

HA! That visual gave me a good laugh.

oboeguy

Haha that's like my commute this morning. I saw a young lady roadie going the other way on Riverside Drive. I thought to myself, "Nice Trek. Must be doing a morning ride over in NJ." (headed toward the GWB). Imagine my surprise when a few miles later she zooms past me going my direction just when I was thinking to myself how well my ride was going. I apparently passed her later when either she made a stop or a wrong turn.

KevinF

I was doing a group ride on Skyline Drive in Virginia once. Skyline Drive is nothing but long steady climbs. Anyway, everyone in the group had their fancy bikes, team kits, etc. except this one guy who was wearing torn-off blue jean shorts, tank top, sneakers, and riding some bike that looked like it was last tuned up during World War 2. A group of us set a pretty hard tempo, and then Mr. Blue Jeans apparently decided our pace was a little too slow, so he took off. Some of us tried to keep up for a few hundred yards but that was quickly abandoned. He was just gone. I would love to have known who that was!

Olebiker

It's equally disheartening when the guy in my club that always puts a hurt on me on the hills is 64 years old. I keep asking him when he is going to start riding like an old man.

SteveAZ

Many years ago *caugh* when I was racing mountian bikes that was part of my training, towing my son up the trails at Table Rock (Boise, Id). Always loved shouting "on your left" and seeing the expession on their face as I passed pulling a trailer. hehehehe

Now the only way I'm gong to pass anyone is if I'm in the trailer and someone else is pulling

MasterSezFaster

I would not get to bothered by it. When I was living in Denmark my gf and I cycled across the country. Any ways, we got passed by some old guy pulling a trailer of groceries behind his touring bike. Well, being young and full of arrogance at the time I took off and passed him fairly fast. Next thing I knew he was on my wheel. 2mi later I heard him shift and by me he went. I was already pushing my highest gear on my mtb(48-11) and there was no way in hell I was going to keep up. He was out of sight 3mi later.
Well my gf catches up to me and is laughing her ass off. She then told me That he was a retired Danish national champ (cannot recall his name) and she was even surprise I was able to hang as long as I did with him

Moral is, you never know who that other person might be. You may get a serious ego check

operator

... Lol.

Yoshi

Remember, You had just finished a hard training ride.

ke422azn22

its even sadder that you are putting this on bikeforums.

my58vw

I ride hills at my own pace!

Rich22

lol, i hope that never happens to me.

jbdmd

there is always some who looks less fit then you that is more fit then you!

armstrong descibes" in not about the bike " being passed on a mild climb by a middle aged woman on a mountain bike and having no juice to get on her wheel!

it, literally, happens to the best of us

Guest

When I was trolling through Switzerland on my bike, there were little kids headed for school on their kiddie bikes sailing past me as I was grunting and straining to get up the mountains. It was incredible. Everyone passed me- they are incredibly strong riders out there in the alps!

Koffee

pgoat

It coulda been worse....if it was me he'd have drafted behind me for a while first, then blew by.

And he would have had triplets in the trailer.

with a SS.

and fat tires.

you get the idea

there is always someone who is a better - and a worse (I got your back! ) climber than you!!

2manybikes

In his first book, Lance tells a story about when he was very sick and on chemo. He goes for a ride, his ride partners ride slowly so Lance does not seem so slow.
All of a sudden a lady on a hybrid passes them all on a hill.

Oops...

SaddleBags

Funny. You didn't happen to see a banjo strapped to his back and hearing distance sounds of 'dueling banjos'.

SSC

LOL, that made my day.

samp02

Thats is funny. .