Of course it’s TDF season and we’re all a bit excitable, but can I request some courtesy?
I was sat at the lights this morning, jeans, T-shirt, trainers, got passed on amber by the usual type: new and gleaming low-cost roadie kit (DHB, Ribble etc) but with clear mtb origins (white “DH” spd shoes 🙄 ), legs flailing as he span past me over the stop line.
Of course 50m away he’s flagging and I only have to dig slightly into my reserves (30 mtb miles the previous evening) to pass him.
He catches me at the next lights but appears to have learnt his lesson – no overtaking this time, even with my deliberate even-slower-than-usual-overgeared take-off.
So newbies, PLEASE don’t assume that T-shirt, jeans and trainers = “slower than you”, just because you watched the tour last night and you can beat your mates to the top of spooky wood by 15 seconds!
TIA