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What is it with (some) roadies ?
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Posted 11 months ago #
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oldfart - Member
Analogue Andy spot on with the I.D.
Thought so
Posted 11 months ago # -
Don't worry oldfart, some of us would have chatted away so much you'd want to escape.
Posted 10 months ago # -
I was out on the road bike last week and got caught up by a chain gang of about seven riders. I stupidly accelerated and hauled them all up a mile long hill, then at the top they formed up into a line and started doing through and off. I managed one turn on the front before my legs gave out after the effort of the hill and they disappeared into the distance. During the entire three miles I was with them, not one of them spoke one word except for one who gasped the name of the club, they were all concentrating so hard on not being dropped.
Later I emailed the club secretary who told me that was the club's elite group out training for racing and time trials. No wonder they had no breath for conversation.
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I got use to them not saying hello, however I am so not use to them riding along some narrow and twisty mountain road and annoying everyone, when they have a perfectly safe and usable cycling lane.
That in my mind needs some clarification.
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Stopped at a pub in Eggleston having ridden over the moors from Hamsterley for a bite to eat.
Two separate roadies shouted hello so enthusiastically as they passed by that I almost fell off my seat. Not all roadies are the same.
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winterfold - Member
oldfart - they are just rude people, whether they are roadies or MTB is irrelevant, being a cock transcends how thick your tyres are.All my clubmates do both and would be horrified to hear someone in the club had been such a tosser. Unless you were shagging one of their missus etc?
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# Moonhead - Member
I think the point here is that you said you were about to ask if you could sit with them. Maybe if you had asked the question they would have opened up and said yes.I don't think it's a roadie V MTB thing, it's more about 3 mates sitting at a table and not really thinking about the people around them. I think it would have been nice if they had seen a fellow biker and offered you a seat.
If I am riding my MTB on the road in between off road riding I always say hi to any roadies I encounter, most say hi back. If they don't I would put it down to the person over the discipline.
I am going to have to disagree with you two on this......strongly! I have never come accross any cyclist who has not said hello back with the exception of roadies. A very large proportoin are ingnorant snobs WHY no idea. I go to a particular pub and the Alford wheelers are often doing some kind of speed trail rarely do they answer when you say hello. I see a huge amount of roadies (mainly in the summer which says a lot about them)I am afraid about 50% of roadies are ignorant snobs who will give you look, if you say hello to them, of why should I lower myself to say hello to the likes of you. Furthermore I occasionaly get a "get out of the way shouts as they come up to overtake" Now I do stress not all but far to many for winterfold and Moonhead not to know this (I am assuming they are roadies??). So if winterfold and Moonhead are roadies there lieing!
Posted 10 months ago # -
I did one of the Wiggle Sportives in The New Forest recently - made a point of giving a cheery hello to all the MTBers doing their event too when our paths cross - a few of them got a bit of a fright
Posted 10 months ago # -
So a stranger expects to be cheerily welcomed with open arms when he plonks himself uninvited at someones table? How would you like it if out for a meal with the missus and someone just sat at your table without being asked?
Posted 10 months ago # -
An unofficial survey today - hand up and "hi" got no responses, nod of head got 75%. Conclusion, some roadies are miserable
Posted 10 months ago # -
Has anyone written to their MP about this disgrace?
Hope this sums it up. I'll give a cheerly hello to everyone on a bike even the workman in his boots and yellow.
I get a lot of hellos back, but some people out on a bike don't know it's the law to wave back at other strangers on bikes, but I understand that.
I can also tell a roadie from a person riding a road bike.
Last week I thought of STW'ers. whilst out on a midweek training session, not just a ride a cyclist waved and shouted hello. Sadly I'd just finished an interval witha couple of second cats. And quite frankly I was seriously having trouble breathing and keeping my bowels closed to respond. And my first thought was STWers.Posted 10 months ago # -
It said I was the last poster, so where's my post I err posted?
But simply not everyman and his dog are aware of the nod etc.
A person riding a road bike isn't always a roadie.
I blanked a person last week for the first time in ages, but as I couldn't breathe and I was having trouble keeping my bowels closed after training with 2nd cats half my age, I feel I can be excused.I always get a nod back from roadies, and hardly ever from lycra clad men out with a road bike. As I'm usually! on the road when I'm riding my road bike I don't encounter MTBers.
But off road - good God MTBers like to talk don't they. Don't know if it's just me, but when I'm actually riding myself I'm not interested in what and where you've just been.Posted 10 months ago # -
Ah haa there it is.
Posted 10 months ago # -
iv noticed this on my commutes u get the full on racey types who just give the full blank look like they have tunnel vision and only see ahead im always happy on my rides and more than happy to nod,a common one in bristol is just a slight wave of the fingers while palm still on the bar as u pass.
or just sit up suacide panda style waving your hands like a plank
Posted 10 months ago # -
nearly every rider, roadie or mtb i see round here says hi, walkers too.. the tinterweb would have me think that all roadies & walkers hate mtbers...
Posted 10 months ago # -
I was out of my roadbike today - for only trhe second time in decasdes and all the other roadies waved at me
I felt like I belonged. Not the usual scowls you get if you are on MTB
Posted 10 months ago #
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