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Why do some cyclists feel the need to try and give it the big I am, passive aggressive “morning” etc.Then a way too close pass?

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  • August 15, 2015 at 3:31 pm #24627
    Judge dreadful

    Normally I just go out and do my ride, and couldn’t give a monkeys about anyone else’s ride. I don’t know their circumstances, I don’t want to know. However there seems to be a (minority admittedly) of complete baw bags, who just have to try and be a ‘hero’. I had a classic today on my ride. I became aware of a silent wheel sucker, on a bit of my ride earlier. The second I sat up to look at a road sign, he bloody nearly wiped me out with a ridiculous pass, then started to ride much slower than I was, before he tried to be a billy big balls. Normally I’d not give a hoot, but today, I decided to see how quick he really was, I properly lit the fires, and dropped him like a bad habit. It wasn’t so much the idiotic pass, but the look the douche bag tried to give me as he struggled past. Later on, I had another pair, who just couldn’t shut up. I guess it’s the five days of summer brigade B-)

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  • August 16, 2015 at 7:33 pm #857191
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    kev-s

    HalfWheeler wrote:kev-s

    HalfWheeler wrote:
    kev-s wrote:
    I go out on my road bike to get away from people and have some peace and quiet, the last thing i want is to have complete strangers try and talk to me or every person i pass saying hello and taking offence when i don’t say hello back

    I bet you’re a barrel of laughs at the office xmas party.

    I am thanks đŸ˜€ đŸ˜€ đŸ˜€

    August 16, 2015 at 7:05 pm #857189
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    Batchy

    Well when I went out for a
    Well when I went out for a quick blast this morning no one past me or sucked my wheels. So before you lot say it. Yes I am a smug bastard !

    August 16, 2015 at 4:02 pm #857187
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    Judge dreadful

    sergius wrote:Out in Surrey

    sergius wrote:
    Out in Surrey you get loads of riders out on the weekend. I always say “good morning” to people when I go past them, it strikes me as rather rude to ignore them if you ask me.

    I am of course entirely ambivalent as to whether they respond in kind, though the vast majority do so in good cheer.

    You get to know the difference. Genuine salutations get genuine responses.

    August 16, 2015 at 3:59 pm #857185
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    bikebot

    barbarus wrote:Who are these

    barbarus wrote:
    Who are these “other riders” you speak of? I hardly ever meet anyone else riding! It would be lovely to be wheelsucked/overtaken/waved at in a friendly manor a little more often!

    Easy to fix, come ride in Surrey on a Sunday morning, you’ll be waving like the Queen.

    August 16, 2015 at 3:46 pm #857183
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    sergius

    Out in Surrey you get loads
    Out in Surrey you get loads of riders out on the weekend. I always say “good morning” to people when I go past them, it strikes me as rather rude to ignore them if you ask me.

    I am of course entirely ambivalent as to whether they respond in kind, though the vast majority do so in good cheer.

    August 16, 2015 at 2:43 pm #857181
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    Judge dreadful

    fukawitribe wrote:Judge

    fukawitribe wrote:
    Judge dreadful wrote:
    bikeboy76 wrote:
    Judge dreadful wrote:
    I don’t mind the ones that use me as a draft, then bugger off into the wild blue yonder at Mach 3, they are clearly doing something different to me on that day, I don’t mind the genuinely chatty ones, who want to talk about the bikes, or the route, or exchange info about something on the route I wouldn’t have been aware of etc. it’s quite nice to have a respite from the monotony of some of the longer routes. To be fair, the vast majority of other cyclists I encounter are very much like this, it’s just a shame there are some dicks, that spoil it a bit. Anyway, there was a positive to the encounter yesterday

    =)) Sorry chaps


    Dead Romans cannot be KOM, it says so in the Rules, I forget which one. Your achievement is meaningless because you are not a real person. What is to stop Martin Ferris from coming along later and taking KOM on another day? Also it doesn’t list what paltry speed you achieved. For someone who is crowing so loudly over this to call someone else a dick is dickish. Your fall from grace will be as swift as it is inevitable.

    You’re entertaining, I’ll give you that.

    Oooh diddums – i’ve just realised you’re the chap who got so very, terribly upset about digitalepo. Still, as you said

    “Screw Strava”
    “… it’s only good for lol’s”


    It is, I’ve not changed my view. It counts for squat, but it is a laugh.

    August 16, 2015 at 2:41 pm #857179
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    Judge dreadful

    Ikwi wrote:bikeboy76 wrote:
    :^o I

    kwi wrote:
    bikeboy76 wrote:
    Your achievement is meaningless because you are not a real person. What is to stop Martin Ferris from coming along later and taking KOM on another day? Also it doesn’t list what paltry speed you achieved. For someone who is crowing so loudly over this to call someone else a dick is dickish. Your fall from grace will be as swift as it is inevitable.

    You also forgot to mention a leader board of seven is hardly a leader board….

    A leaderboard consisting of purely road.cc people, that’s what made me laugh B-)

    August 16, 2015 at 2:37 pm #857177
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    Kadinkski

    You would probably find a
    You would probably find a more receptive audience complaining about cyclists on a motoring forum.

    http://www.petrolheadnirvana.com/torque/index.php might be a good start.

    August 16, 2015 at 2:37 pm #857175
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    kwi

    bikeboy76 wrote: Your

    bikeboy76 wrote:
    Your achievement is meaningless because you are not a real person. What is to stop Martin Ferris from coming along later and taking KOM on another day? Also it doesn’t list what paltry speed you achieved. For someone who is crowing so loudly over this to call someone else a dick is dickish. Your fall from grace will be as swift as it is inevitable.

    You also forgot to mention a leader board of seven is hardly a leader board….

    August 16, 2015 at 2:31 pm #857173
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    fukawitribe

    Judge dreadful

    Judge dreadful wrote:
    bikeboy76 wrote:
    Judge dreadful wrote:
    I don’t mind the ones that use me as a draft, then bugger off into the wild blue yonder at Mach 3, they are clearly doing something different to me on that day, I don’t mind the genuinely chatty ones, who want to talk about the bikes, or the route, or exchange info about something on the route I wouldn’t have been aware of etc. it’s quite nice to have a respite from the monotony of some of the longer routes. To be fair, the vast majority of other cyclists I encounter are very much like this, it’s just a shame there are some dicks, that spoil it a bit. Anyway, there was a positive to the encounter yesterday

    =)) Sorry chaps


    Dead Romans cannot be KOM, it says so in the Rules, I forget which one. Your achievement is meaningless because you are not a real person. What is to stop Martin Ferris from coming along later and taking KOM on another day? Also it doesn’t list what paltry speed you achieved. For someone who is crowing so loudly over this to call someone else a dick is dickish. Your fall from grace will be as swift as it is inevitable.

    You’re entertaining, I’ll give you that.

    Oooh diddums – i’ve just realised you’re the chap who got so very, terribly upset about digitalepo. Still, as you said

    “Screw Strava”
    “… it’s only good for lol’s”

    August 16, 2015 at 2:19 pm #857171
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    Judge dreadful

    bikeboy76 wrote:Judge

    bikeboy76 wrote:
    Judge dreadful wrote:
    I don’t mind the ones that use me as a draft, then bugger off into the wild blue yonder at Mach 3, they are clearly doing something different to me on that day, I don’t mind the genuinely chatty ones, who want to talk about the bikes, or the route, or exchange info about something on the route I wouldn’t have been aware of etc. it’s quite nice to have a respite from the monotony of some of the longer routes. To be fair, the vast majority of other cyclists I encounter are very much like this, it’s just a shame there are some dicks, that spoil it a bit. Anyway, there was a positive to the encounter yesterday

    =)) Sorry chaps


    Dead Romans cannot be KOM, it says so in the Rules, I forget which one. Your achievement is meaningless because you are not a real person. What is to stop Martin Ferris from coming along later and taking KOM on another day? Also it doesn’t list what paltry speed you achieved. For someone who is crowing so loudly over this to call someone else a dick is dickish. Your fall from grace will be as swift as it is inevitable.

    You’re entertaining, I’ll give you that.

    August 16, 2015 at 1:51 pm #857169
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    Leviathan

    Judge dreadful wrote:I don’t

    Judge dreadful wrote:
    I don’t mind the ones that use me as a draft, then bugger off into the wild blue yonder at Mach 3, they are clearly doing something different to me on that day, I don’t mind the genuinely chatty ones, who want to talk about the bikes, or the route, or exchange info about something on the route I wouldn’t have been aware of etc. it’s quite nice to have a respite from the monotony of some of the longer routes. To be fair, the vast majority of other cyclists I encounter are very much like this, it’s just a shame there are some dicks, that spoil it a bit. Anyway, there was a positive to the encounter yesterday

    =)) Sorry chaps


    Dead Romans cannot be KOM, it says so in the Rules, I forget which one. Your achievement is meaningless because you are not a real person. What is to stop Martin Ferris from coming along later and taking KOM on another day? Also it doesn’t list what paltry speed you achieved. For someone who is crowing so loudly over this to call someone else a dick is dickish. Your fall from grace will be as swift as it is inevitable.

    August 16, 2015 at 1:27 pm #857167
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    HalfWheeler

    kev-s wrote:I go out on my

    kev-s wrote:
    I go out on my road bike to get away from people and have some peace and quiet, the last thing i want is to have complete strangers try and talk to me or every person i pass saying hello and taking offence when i don’t say hello back

    I bet you’re a barrel of laughs at the office xmas party.

    August 16, 2015 at 10:48 am #857165
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    Judge dreadful

    I don’t mind the ones that
    I don’t mind the ones that use me as a draft, then bugger off into the wild blue yonder at Mach 3, they are clearly doing something different to me on that day, I don’t mind the genuinely chatty ones, who want to talk about the bikes, or the route, or exchange info about something on the route I wouldn’t have been aware of etc. it’s quite nice to have a respite from the monotony of some of the longer routes. To be fair, the vast majority of other cyclists I encounter are very much like this, it’s just a shame there are some dicks, that spoil it a bit. Anyway, there was a positive to the encounter yesterday

    =)) Sorry chaps

    August 16, 2015 at 10:16 am #857163
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    700c

    yeah I think you’re reading
    yeah I think you’re reading too much into it. I know that I’ve sometimes surprised people by passing and saying ‘morning’, the problem is you can’t hear bikes coming, so they might not have known you were there. What I consider a friendly encounter might be interpreted as ‘passive aggressive guy trying to show off’ – in fact nothing could be further from the truth.

    This may be amplified if the speed differential is greater and it appears like I’m ‘flying past’ trying to prove a point. I’m really not and there’s a strong chance you might catch me when the road turns uphill anyway đŸ˜‰

    Most people I meet riding are in good humour and rightly so – exercise gives endorphins which makes you feel good!

    Perhaps you were having a bad day?!

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