So The Mighty Higs its fine for you to have issues with people doing things you don't agree with but it's nonsense if it's the other way round.
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Uninvited rider on your wheel
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I find it annoying on a commute. I tend to be one of the faster commuters and as such often pass quite a few people on my way home. Getting overtaken by a man on a 29er with MTB tyres and a geared hub is taken as a slight on your manhood it seems as I often find people gunning it to get on my wheel. I just want to ride home at the same pace as I do everyday without some uninvited idiot buzzing my back tyre in an effort to restore his perceived manhood. A lot of traffic on my route home as well as a few downhills among queing traffic. I don't want some puffing and panting idiot running into the back of me if I have to brake sharply for an interesting driving manouvre, which is not unusual.
The result is that if I pass someone I tend to drop the hammer in an effort to ensure noone tries to get on.
Don't have a problem with bunch riding/slipstreaming in the right environment. I have done plenty of road riding but I don't think it is all that appropriate for the commute.
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rOcKeTdOg - Member
suspect all those saying "chill out man" etc haven't seen a bunch get taken down by one careless rider...so one arogant, miserable git followed by a guy trying to have a bit of fun on his commute is now a 'bunch'?
excellent troll though Al, i bet you are really proud
I'm the arrogant miserable git am I? As well as a troll? Funny how you used to like me so much you wanted me to date your friend...
In any case, I was referring to various bunches I have been in getting mostly taken out by careless riding.
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So The Mighty Higs its fine for you to have issues with people doing things you don't agree with but it's nonsense if it's the other way round.
Yes.
It's to do with intent.Posted 2 years ago # -
MrSmith, you say you don't want to give them a free tow because they never do a turn on the front, then say that the streets aren't a place to pretend to be in the TDF! Confused?
Take your fixed off the mean streets of London perhaps and get down to Herne Hill!
herne hill is closed for the winter.
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herne hill is closed for the winter.
I know that. It was open quite often in the summer though!Posted 2 years ago # -
what you all need is some nice proper bike paths like those here in germany.
went for a ride last weekend to pick up some green in another town 60km away. of that 60km about 2km was on a road shared with cars. the rest was a paved path about one lane wide.
i'll often sit on someone's wheel but let them know i'm there by riding paralell with them first and say to them "bitte, kein scharfes bremsen", or "no hard braking" as i ride a fixie. neither am i averse to having someone sit on my wheel.
ahhh. bike paths.
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The Mighty Higs brake checking someone behind you and riding on someone's wheel in traffic are both dangerous for exactly the same reason. Intent or not I fail to see how you can find one acceptable behaviour and one not.
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Thread like this remind me that just because someone is riding a bike, they're not necessarily not an arse
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they're not necessarily not an arse
Does that mean they are an arse or not?
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If a roadie gets too close behind me I just pop a rolling endo and leave a skidmark on his nose. Pwned.
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if i am walking and someone decides to walk right behind me, i think they are wierd. same rules on a bike.
get out of my personal space or i will kill you to death in the face.Posted 2 years ago # -
lol
you have a point!Posted 2 years ago # -
I usually up the tempo, then hear them breathing out of their bum, job done!
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Whenever a roadie passes me on the MTB (soggy fsr)... in their special way and then slow down ahead.
I will get on there back wheel and then probably pass them at some point.
Or better still start having a chat with them when I come along side.
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She had a lucky escape didn't she Al
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I punch quite a big hole in the air so normally find roadies sat behind me for a cheeky free spin. Once I'm sure they're cog watching I make sure I ride over every bump, drain, dead hedgehog I can find. Oh oooh and horse pooh is great when it's flung off your rear wheel.
They don't hang about at this point and cruise psat me. As they do I normally comment in my MOST gay-ist voice ever, "neeeooowwwww, ooh you're ever so fast".
makes me giggle
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rOcKeTdOg - Member
She had a lucky escape didn't she AlEh? I assumed you'd done her
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you just kept going on about being single/how do i meet women etc etc on Mlehworld and she lives in the same city as you and has a big network of girl friends and i thought you might benefit but you didn't want to know, it was a just trying to help out a guy on a forum you use thing, nothing more, not everyone has an agenda, sometimes people are genuinely trying to help
and you do come across as arrogant, whether that's by design or genuine i don't know, i've never met youPosted 2 years ago # -
Fart
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You know, reading this just makes me think you're a load of car drivers who happen to be on bikes. Put your egos away ffs. If you get really wound up by someone sitting on your wheel, just pull over and let them bugger off into the distance. I'm so glad I don't have to commute
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Blimey, who knew it was all so contentious? Perhaps we need a system of seatpost stickers?
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I'd get really pissed off within anyone drafting in traffic- ask yourself this, would you like someone tailgaiting by mm in your car?, or worse, riding a motorcycle with another vehicle inches from your back wheel?
Its a different matter when riding on a clear road, with a chaingang that you know.
Invariably, the folk that do this are the ones you would least trust anyway...Posted 2 years ago # -
Do people think that someone on your back wheel makes you go slower? Who cares?
As long as they don't 1, crash into me, 2, actually hold on to my seatpost or something and coast, or 3, its in a sportive/race and they don't take a turn on the front, I really won't care at all, and don't understand anyone who would.
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There are a handful of people I
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RealMan, the kind of people who do this uninvited are IME exactly the kind of people who '1 will crash into you'. Once you've had some tarmac superstar touch wheels*, or run into the back of you 'cos you stopped at the red light but they didn't, then you'll take a dimmer view
* and I'm speaking as someone who used to be a bit of a half wheeler myself- it takes one to know one etc
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RD I'm not sure I've ever asked how to meet women on mleh and my persona is here is 72% joke.
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cynic-al - Member
RD I'm not sure I've ever asked how to meet women on mleh and my persona is here is 72% joke.
In real life it's higher than that.
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*rumbled*
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I just say hi and chat.
Had ine kid in his roadbike with my 31 lbs commuter tow him for a while as he was tired from a uber long ride prior to me.
Had one guy ask for a toe as he was tired from work.
I just plod away slowly
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