[Closed] What is it with (some) roadies ?

ah but you'll be having a lot more fun when riding than they will 😉

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?

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.

Moonhead - yah

before I saw the light I always said hello to mtbers - 2 wheels good etc - admittedly the way roadies say hello to each other can be subtle - but they do say it

Even as a roadie I find plenty of other roadies who just can't be bothered to reply to a 'Hello' - there are just a lot of rude / unsociable people about....

Yep I nearly always get blanked when saying hello even when out on the road bike - perhaps it's because I'm fat and don't wear skinny lycra? I find it's normally the younger guys in matching "team" kit who are the rudest, the older guys on old steel retro looking road bikes are always alright!

Its funny, I was parking in a car park the other week and a guy with a car parked up next to me. I started chatting about his car, the car park and general banter, but he didn't seem interested and just walked away. Rudeness!

winterfold,

Before you saw what light? What does that mean?

I'm not saying they stopped and shook my hand or actually say hello verbally, I can recognize a discrete nod. Doesn't always happen though. I don't care what someone is riding, or if they are lycra clad or commuting...no harm in a bit of a nod.

the older guys on old steel retro looking road bikes are always alright!

that's me.

Young people are just a but rude though arent they? i try not to blame them for it, its just part of being young and insecure.. etc

Moonhead, I dont agree.

All, and I mean all of the MTB riders I meet at trail centers speak to each other. Even if its just a nod and hello. Whether its on the trail, in the car park or in the caf.

I agree that there seems to be an issue with Roadies.

2 separate roadies blanked me today (I was on roadbike too, but commuter with panniers) - i said a cheery 'hello!' they said f*** all.

Basic manners - or lack of.

I had started to believe the "us & them" take on things. I get really peeved when I nod to roadies & they blank me. Then, when I think about it, I've greeted so many fellow mountain bikers with a cheery "hi", to be totally blanked in return ... all said & done, it's a common courtesy thing that isn't governed by the size of the wheels & the terrain that we ride ... It is about whether you're a sociable person or a miserable git!

A few years back I used to road ride, time trial & do club runs (before mountain biking was even heard of & cylocross was the best thing that ever appeared on Grandstand) ... I trained hard & put the miles in ... the big thing I've sussed about the difference between road & MTB since those days? Smiles! ... I ask, who's having the most fun?

2 separate roadies

I think you'll find they are actually all part of the Borg.

you guys should try living in germany... then you'll know what being 'blanked' really means....

There was this psycho in a car park the other day...he just wouldn't shut up. I'd parked up to stretch my legs and he started stalking me round the car park waffling on.... I scarpered rapidly...

I swear at everyone I see on a bike, that way if they were going to ignore me I got a preemptive strike in and if not then my cunning disguise of wearing a big 'tache and a beret makes 'em think I'm monsieur tourette and I get away with it 😀

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it's the individual

plenty of rude and ignorant people on all types of bikes

All, and I mean all of the MTB riders I meet at trail centers speak to each other. Even if its just a nod and hello. Whether its on the trail, in the car park or in the caf.

doesn't sound like the Glentress I've been to, full spectrum of manners on view there

LOL @ Tazzy, Think I might adopt your approach.

Konastoner - Member

All, and I mean all of the MTB riders I meet at trail centers speak to each other. Even if its just a nod and hello. Whether its on the trail, in the car park or in the caf.

I agree that there seems to be an issue with Roadies.

Jesus. I don't speak to every runner, pedestrian, motorist, road or mtb cyclist I come across in day to day activities, Not sure why I'd single out single out roadies though. Frankly I have better things to do than exchange pleasantries with some stranger. If I'm catching up with a couple of old mates over a beer I don't want some wierdo pusing in on the scene, don't see why your scenario is any different. Get over it.

Oldfart

I wouldn't want to condone general rudeness, but just because you also had a bicycle doesn't mean that three random blokes should make room for you on their table and be nice and chatty [i]really [/i]does it? I mean, if they all had [b]hats [/b]on, and you walked up with a [b]hat[/b], you wouldn't expect them to ask you to join them would you? 😉

To be honest there's a lot of threads on here that seem to perpetuate this strange myth of rude roadies, and seem to add fuel to this ongoing fire. I think it actually ends up being self-fulfilling prophecy for some people, ie they expect road cyclists to be rude, therefore they often find them that way etc.

Of course, they could well have been a trio of self important kn*bheads too. 😉

@djglover- typed like a man who hasn't had enough hugs in his life, maybe you should relax more, have you tried some nice breathing exercises

Konastoner - Member

All, and I mean all of the MTB riders I meet at trail centers speak to each other. Even if its just a nod and hello. Whether its on the trail, in the car park or in the caf.

I agree that there seems to be an issue with Roadies.

Shite

Must be a Welsh thing then. 🙂

i wonder if it's the club's ethos to cultivate the them and us mentality ?

Ha ha! Interesting you should say that 🙂

Can't say too much here, suffice to say I'm a Bath CC member and now lead rides on the road but came to the club from a pure MTB background. Yes, it's fair to say the club is 'road orientated' (focussed on Sat and Sun club runs and TTs) and some in the club are amongst that minority of roadies who like you said for some daft reason don't count 'mountain biking' as cycling..

.. in fact I think I can even guess who they were? One on a flash orange and black carbon Storck.. in fact I can almost guarantee who they were.. I bumped into them this morning at 9am and they were off to Clevedon. In fact I was on my bestest road bike but wearing a mud splattered peaky lid and they did their best to ignore me 🙂

If I'd have been there I'd have moved over and insist you join us and asked you how the trails were. I've joined the Committee (or rather turned up and suggested they co-opt me) and even organised our recent Weds night 'Midsomer Madness' event 'in association' with Bath and all the other local clubs (Walcot, Somer Valley and the Black Canon Collective).

Don't lose any sleep over it Oldfart, it's them who missed out on your company not vicky versi 🙂

Must be a Welsh thing then.

even less credible?

pray tell the rest of us where these trail centre's of niceness are which people who ride road bikes never go to 😉

Perhaps they were actually not roadies, but triathletes? They can be proper rude.

I went past a whole stream of them, with their fancy carbon bikes, aero bars and space-age helmets on Sunday. I said hello, waved, all sorts.

Nothing.

Unpleasant lot. I was glad when it started to rain on them.

@djglover- typed like a man who hasn't had enough hugs in his life, maybe you should relax more, have you tried some nice breathing exercises

My house is hug central, two charming twin toddlers to provide that, time spent with mates though is rare and quite precious to me, random wierdos are not welcome!

random wierdos are not welcome!

it's all in the numbers. There were 3 roadies and you would have been a spare part in a spit roast 😀

Young people are just a but rude though arent they? i try not to blame them for it, its just part of being young and insecure.. etc

Dunno I'm only 22 and say hello to other riders when I'm out.. Most of those who seem about my age or a bit older don't though.

doesn't sound like the Glentress I've been to, full spectrum of manners on view there

Completely agree with this, with a big caveat; it's a very different place through the week, on night rides, through the winter or generally when it's quiet.

I think it's just because there are so many people there everyone just stops speaking to others. There definitely is a very different vibe on a busy weekend to the above mentioned times. May also be that a lot of the weekend riders are newbies and the regulars don't want to associate with them 😆

The roadie world can be very cliquey and although getting better, some clubs are still like this.

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Do you have a racing license? You need a racing license to sit at certain tables during some parts of the season. Also if your bike had disk brakes then sitting at their table would be in contravention of UCI road regulations.

People join clubs because they can't make friends and once they're in a club it saves them the embarassment of having to speak to other people. That's why they didn't speak to you

Best one I heard on this theme, a mate was out in the Dales on his road bike, he's a rotund gentleman of a difficult age, certainly no racing whippet. He slowly caught up a small group of similarly aged riders and asked them in a friendly way where they were heading, the reply was "what the f*** has it got to do with you?" Being a **** is seemingly no respector of age!

Perhaps they were actually not roadies, but triathletes? They can be proper rude

Bullshit. Triathlon is the most inclusive and welcoming sport I have had the good fortune to get involved in.

Triathlon is the most inclusive and welcoming sport I have had the good fortune to get involved in.

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I always find these threads a bit odd and just act as another wedge between roadies and mtbers. As we can see on the forum, that while we are all cyclists, we are not all amigos.
Why would you expect a fellow cyclist to acknowledge you? Some do, some don't. That's life.

People join clubs because they can't make friends and once they're in a club it saves them the embarassment of having to speak to other people.

Is that the same reason why you have joined STW?

[Is that the same reason why you have joined STW?]

Good lord no.

I joined STW to wind people up and post irelevant crap anonymously.

If that's what you want to believe!! 😉

I've recently bought a road bike. In light of this thread I shan't be having anything to do with you bunch of ****s any more

so Long losers!!!

Christ, you can't use the internet for a bit of harmless polarisation any more.
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Just the other week I was sat at an outside table with a couple of other lads and an oldish bloke on a tourer came and sat with us. Never said a word, just blanked us and sat there reading his map.

One night last winter I was cycling back from the Chase along a rural country lane when two of them caught me up and followed me back to civilisation because they hadn't got any lights. They turned off without a 'seeya' or 'cheersmate', nothing...