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You can draft me if you want, happy to help out, have a chat, whatever. I'm adapt my riding to accommodate. Some right bed wetters on this thread. I bet they don't say anything to anyone drafting in reality they just seeth inside and then come here and post about how tough they are.
I won't sit on an erratic riders wheel though
You can draft me if you want, happy to help out, have a chat, whatever. I'm adapt my riding to accommodate.
You could put a little sign on the back of your bike, so people know. "Awesome guy" or something like that.
I won't sit on an erratic riders wheel though
How about having an erratic rider sitting on your wheel?
I won't sit on an erratic riders wheel though
How about having an erratic rider sitting on your wheel?
From my experience, you can usually ride away when they crash touching you wheel.
You can draft me if you want, happy to help out, have a chat, whatever. I'm adapt my riding to accommodate. Some right bed wetters on this thread. I bet they don't say anything to anyone drafting in reality they just seeth inside and then come here and post about how tough they are.
after adding the imaginary part where they snotted all over the rider or dropped them with a mighty sprint despite being clearly underbiked...
How about having an erratic rider sitting on your wheel?
Much easier to manage tbh. I will only get annoyed at those who overlap wheels.
You can draft me if you want, happy to help out, have a chat, whatever. I'm adapt my riding to accommodate. Some right bed wetters on this thread. I bet they don't say anything to anyone drafting in reality they just seeth inside and then come here and post about how tough they are.
Oh i tell them in no uncertain impolite ways.
I amnothaving someone compromise my safety
Think we've got to the circular argument stage here, some of us don't mind, some of us hate it, we all have different experiences and concerns, no ones view is likely to be changed.
Roadies utterly baffle me. The unwritten rules/etiquette are worse than bloody golf. If someone's behind you and you don't want them to be, just slow down, they'll go past, and carry on with your day.
I've been committing via road for several years and it's not even crossed my mind. I'm probably just not in the right 'cat' or don't present the right image with my rucksack, discs, and peak *shrugs*
Some right bed wetters on this thread... they just seeth inside and then come here and post about how tough they are.
The (situational) irony, Matron! It's too much to bear!
You can draft me if you want, happy to help out, have a chat, whatever. I'm adapt my riding to accommodate. Some right bed wetters on this thread. I bet they don't say anything to anyone drafting in reality they just seeth inside and then come here and post about how tough they are.
Some right sneery, wannabe alpha male tough guys on this thread 😉 If someone doesn't feel comfortable with someone on their wheel, then that's their call, not yours. You might be happy soloing hard rock routes or whatever, or not, again, it's just personal preference.
As per my previous post, I don't like uninvited drafters, it makes me uncomfortable, though clearly in your book it also makes me a 'bed-wetter' because you're so brave and fierce and confident. If I rode more in chain-gangs or raced on the road, I might feel differently. But hey, everyone's experience and take is different.
I just slow down and wave them past. I don't try to tow them into pot-holes or make snarky comments or owt like that, I just let them ride away. It seems fair enough.
Sneering at people for being 'bed-wetters' maybe says more about you than them. Can you not just live and let live?
[Sorry, I'm being unnecessarily snarky myself, but honestly, why the sneery 'bed-wetters' stuff? Why not just accept that some people have different views to your own, probably founded on different experiences and takes. As above, you can come and sit on my wheel anytime, I'll simply slow down and wave you past. No drama necessary.]
If someone's behind you and you don't want them to be, just slow down, they'll go past, and carry on with your day.
This thread is outing the real roadies, we all know the correct etiquette is to pull to the right, then slow to let them pass and rejoin behind them.
No committed roadie is going to sacrifice their average speed to let someone overtake 😉
The (situational) irony, Matron! It's too much to bear!
I'm certainly not tough.
I just slow down and wave them past
Which is a perfectly valid response
Think we've got to the circular argument stage here, some of us don't mind, some of us hate it, we all have different experiences and concerns, no ones view is likely to be changed.
We got there at post 2!
It was always inevitable.
I'd quite like to see another cyclist on my commute. It's just me and the voices in my head to keep me company.