make a note of the club shirt the idiots were waring and registering on their website, then posting abuse.
no, neither have i.
Eddie Waring ?
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Eddie Yeats?
What did they do? teddy.
Are you sure you're not just being resentful at people who are faster, fitter and thinner?
C'mon lets hear it! 🙂
make a note of the club shirt the idiots were waring and registering on their website, then posting abuse.
😯 😯 😯
Why?
I'm suspecting this might be one of these" I was held up in the car on the way to the trail centre/ sunday shopping for all of 40 seconds" type threads
(happy to be proved wrong though)
just the usual, but i had was lucky enough to get the shoulder of cold from each and everyone as they passed in turn.
What alerted you to their ignorance?
I think you should write to the Daily Mail as they might give a shit.
Is there a written rule where all people who participate in similar activities have to say hello to each other?
Dear Local Paper
bloody cyclists,blah blah, etc
Yours sincerely
Irate Reader.
(you get it a lot round my way)
If they ignored you, maybe they weren't so ignorant after all... 🙂
just the usual, but i had was lucky enough to get the shoulder of cold from each and everyone as they passed in turn.
Anyone make any sense of this?
Are you sure it wasn't "the shoulder of COOL" 8)
I don't think being pis sed off at cyclists on a cycling forum is the way to go teddy, try www.clarkson.cock.uk or sommat
Isn't this just roadies in general?!
Yeh some roadies are ignorant, but then so are some mtb'ers. Depends on the person, not what bike you ride 😉
Its all riding to me, and i love it all, from bmx to downhill to road riding...
😀
Thing is though, you cannie win.
I'll say hello to some MTBer when I'm on the road/ CX bike, and 9 times out of 10, they'll give you the "****! Its a lycra-clad jeyboy!" type blank stare.
Maybe I should stop wearing pink?
me too.
i often find the 'leader' of the chain sets the stall out for whether they will acknowledge you or not.
When out on my bike,I say hello to anyone else on a bike,whether it be a fellow mtb'er,roadie,family group,etc.
If they respond in kind,then all well & good.
If they just 'blank' me,then I just carry on riding,& the moment is soon forgotten.I certainly don't lose sleep over it!
Too much other stuff high up the importance scale imho.
+1 Gary_C. Life's too short eh?
I did a turn on the roadbike today - couple of hours hard riding up in the hills but a bit more urban on the way back. When I wasn't close to spewing my lunch up, I gave nods, "hi's" and jaunty waves to roadies, mtbers and so on (couldn't move for bl*dy cyclists today 🙂 ) and got it back in turn - from the lot of 'em.
There were however, a couple of times - usually when I was piling down hill, trying to avoid potholes, eyes streaming and both hands to the bars, where I wasn't able to look right, let alone wave at oncoming cyclists.
I apologise for being ignorant. It wasn't deliberate. Maybe the same applied to the guys in question?
I've come across chain gangs before who have not said hello but the way I see it is that they're all out training. The guy in front is concentrating on keeping the pace and the people behind are more focused on the wheel in front. I still say hello but if I don't get a response I won't let it bother me.
Got a load of cheery hello's today though. Must be the weather. 😀
what? they were knackered and concentrating on their cycling & staying alive 'pon road? Ignoring YOU?
bloody cyclists, blah blah, etc
what did these ignorant basterds do? I'm gonna kill them ****s if they've really pished in yer chips. basturds!
these lads were crawling past me, passing 12 inches away doing maybe 3 mph more...
each one got a good morning from me, each one completely ignored the pleasantry.
too tempting to pass up as they had there gang colours on.
bit like a van cutting you up with the works number on it....
Those b.. b.. BASTERDZ!
It really annoyed you that much? Jeez. Worse things in life to worry about.
So why doesn't everyone on there morning commute on the train say hello then?
who cares if they say hello they probably think your a knob or something. i do after reading your stupid rant!
ill pass with a nod, hello, there's a bull in the bridleway comment. but wont loose sleep, post about it if they don't reply.
Is this some strange new definition of the word ignorant?
Teddy - I take it you've never ridden at a velodrome then?
I've seen and met people that say good morning to everyone that passes. I dare say, they were friendly and that, but most people do give them the shoulder of cold. Speshly when they are in their gang colours.
What's with this having to speak or nod at people you don't know? Bikers do it as well it's bloody annoying.For all you know you could be saying hello to an axe murderer
if it helps, this morning out on sunny Dartmoor poncing about next to/occasionally astride my big bike/full face helmet I successfully exchanged hellos and/or waves from:
-man on xc hardtail,
-man on proper road bike,
-man on singlespeed road bike,
-man on fixie roadbike, (all separate)
-2x farmers in 2x tractors, (one 'walking' his collie as he drove)
-volvo estate full of silvertops.
Only ones who didn't wave were pillion couple riding gingerly in high crosswind on proper fast sports bike. Perhaps they didn't want to let go, in that wind i wouldn't have!
a few axe murdering roadies crawling past, passing 12 inches away doing maybe 3 mph more. each one completely ignoring the pleasantry. In their gang colours.
now, that should be the OP! FTW!
Who ****ing cares if someone does or doesn't wave to you when you are out riding. Grow up you SAD ****ING LOSERS. You are riding a bike not looking for a date.
on todays ride i spoke to about 10 riders, i think 2 didn't reply, i've not thought about it since, i'm finding it a bit odd that you think it so serious you want to "abuse" fellow cyclists because they ignored you?
Do you think the same conversations are had on the Ramblers Association forums?
Yup, lots of overly sensitive folk on here, with clearly too much time on their hands. Who gives a monkey if someone doesn't say hello to you?
If they're a decent bunch of riders, passing you at 12" (if it really was), is not really a big problem.
If another tossing weekend warrior MTBer gripes about not having his hand* stroked by someone on a road bike as they pass him while he puffs away along the tarmac on his over suspended "trail" bike I shall make a point of calling each of them I pass a useless c--t. I mean, it's not like most of these people can ride fast enough to catch me....
FFS
*or any other limp appendage.
i nod, gently raise a hand/finger or say hello at any cyclist coming the other way, or overtake or just meet, be that on road or off, but my self-esteem is sufficiently high enough that i'm not bothered if they return the greeting or not, but most of them do, because i'm quite handsome
LOL! just lolling at this thread, I love it though, it's what stw is about. Yes, I am sad, before you point it out.
I must be completely ignorant, as I say hello to far more ramblers when I'm out riding on the hills than I do to other people on bikes when I'm riding on the road. Is the OP sure none of them raised a little finger to acknowledge his presence (as is standard for acknowledging other people on the road)?
Though I actually recommend he does do what he was originally thinking of and register on their forum to post abuse. Could you just let us know first what club it is, so we can watch - should be amusing? Not that either of the roadie clubs I've belonged to has a forum on their websites last time I checked.
I would find them passing 12" away very annoying and would say so - but not saying hello? WGAS! I find it very strange to say hello to people just because they are on a bike. If its somewhere remote or the weather particularly foul or nice I might pass comment but other wise? Why
I do tend to acknowledge ramblers as aracer says - to thank them if they let me past and for good PR
I was out on Saturday morning when I had a rear blowout. I was stranded on the side of the road waiting for Mrs MM to pick me up when this licra clad roadie took the time to stop and ask if I needed help. I was quite shock as this shattered my illusion that all roadies are appartently ignorant. Not knowing what do I ignored him. 😉 Then I realised I was in my roadie tribal colours and chased him on foot to aplologies but it was to late, he'd gone. Am I a bad person? 🙄
I generally find it's MTBers that are too cool for school, they're probably in the zone 🙄
Jedi did we get a nod from any MTBers.....no. We did enjoy being overtaken by the MTBer, who almost in a loss of self control threw his arms in the air 'stage winner' stylee.
I say helo to everything man or beast.
Yesterday was a good day for mutual nodding 😆
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yes, you didn't have a spare tube and pump? 😉
I didn't know what a "club shirt" was. So I Googled it.
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I'd be bloody infuriated if he didn't say "hellooo!" too
I had a pump and two tubes and also a big hole in the tyre. Tried repairing hole but patches wouldn't stick to tyre wall. Didn't want it to happen again so called it a day.
I usually do the 'handlebar partial-wave', unless I am hello'd at, in which case I hello back. Sometimes I am working too hard to say hello...
I mainly ride off road but have to suffer the road bike to keep fit.
Due to a serious accident on the road caused by an old duffer I do ride defensively when necessary i.e. Poor road surface, parked cars etc.
During every ride I have been skimmed by at least one car driver. Usual culprit: old male duffer who probably thinks it's illegal to cross any form of white line to overtake.
If you can't overtake cleanly-don't bother!
JoB "most of them do, because i'm quite handsome"
well, that and the stem mounted bazooka...
i ride on the road a fair bit and when i do i often don't feel like saying hi to everyone i pass, i'm in my own world cos i like riding alone sometimes. sorry if i've offended anyone locally!! but i don't get why would you feel offended if i don't know you? maybe some see it as simple courtesy but i'd say that's more about offering help to riders at the side of the road etc, it's different. i always do it and i always appreciate being asked.
agree with TJ, i'm more likely to say hi to older walkers, either as pr and/or just cos i like cheery walkers )
Do you have a Tom Selleck moustache? (See current issue of Singletrack for Ferrentino's column on the very same subject)
I smile, wave and nod at everyone. It makes me feel better at least. 🙂
"Dear Cycling Weekly,
I'm infuriated by mountain bikers who insist on churning along on big fat knobbly tyres thinking they'll get fitter, and then complain on those new fangled internet forums that a local chain gang failed to acknoledge them on a ride - do they not know that that gang will have been riding at threshold, therefore wouldn't have the breath to acknowledge them, even if they'd wanted to?
Yours sincerley
Lance Armpong
Y'know,for some reason, this thread reminds me of the Pai Mei story from Kill Bill 🙂
Never interrupt roadies in the middle of a bum chain, they need to concentrate.
If pepel arnt frendly I get my mom to tell there mom they shuld be my frend my momis wikid cool
Careful Mark Datz, you're starting to give yourself away!!! 😕
perhaps i have a face that makes people angry? but riding a road bike doesn't appear much fun. Mostly people are friendly and I always say hello when out riding, or at least raise a hand, nod of head to greet them.
Only Roadies are a bunch I'm used to not receiving any response from. Is road cycling run by the Probation service, is it community payback scheme being made to ride endless miles with only the backside of the bloke in front for a view? Mountain biking is just like road riding just with more stops to chat and 100 percent more cake.
If I was overtaken by a bunch of roadies going only 3mph faster, I wouldn't worry too much about saying hello, I'd keep quiet and tag on the back for a free slipstream.
Last time I checked roadies are just normal people who ride bikes for fun.However some of the road riding is training rather than social riding-great fun but between hanging on and missing holes in the road you don't always see every other cyclist on the road.
Name other sports where participants wave to each other.
Edit; that makes waving sound furiously gay.
Don't get this whole tribalist them and us thing, aren't we all riding bikes?
oldgit - Member
Name other sports where participants wave to each other.Edit; that makes waving sound furiously gay.
At least we don't play football, they seem to like slapping each others backsides...
"mummy, the nasty boys who past me yesterday didn't say hello, I don't like them anymore and they all look like girls with their shaved legs and tights on"
Get over it, imagine pleasantries in any other "sport" and you'll soon find cyclists are pretty friendly.
Honestly, why do we have to have a roadie bashing thread every bloody week? It's like a stupid playground gang thing or something.
Keep your petty prejudices to yourself.
Thing is to roadies the training is part of the race that coming weekend, everything is a pre cursor to that day.
On the other hand someone who happens to own a road bike and rides it as well ought to be more social. Bet all the miserable ones are MTBers stiching us up 😡
Hey steve_b77 talking about shaven legs, do you think it's too early?
And I was wondering about a light spray tan to avoid the Icelands budget frozen chicken look.
Is this some strange new definition of the word ignorant?
It's the standard defintion on internet forums I think.
Disaster strikes when roadies fail to wave at Teddy
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oldgit - Member
Hey steve_b77 talking about shaven legs, do you think it's too early?
And I was wondering about a light spray tan to avoid the Icelands budget frozen chicken look
Maybe, not too sure it'd go down too well with 'er in doors though 😆