He's right, you know... 😉

Hmm- yeh but if you were in a car and you overtook someone then they put their foot down tis a bit annoying - Why did you put you foot down when you were pootling? That said I wouldn't have called you a *** **** 😯

Let's be honest, if you'd allowed yourself to be overtaken by you, wouldn't you be annoyed at yourself?

I guess overtaking someone who then takes "offense" and overtakes back could be regarded as a wee bit childish.

Oh and apparently any form of "racing" on public roads is for immature kids only...

Eh was he not supposed to overtake you while you were daydreaming?

You should have scoffed at him for being on a langster. Was he wearing his sisters jeans too?

I know its a bit petty, but if I'm commuting and someone passes me, I always try and catch them, counts double if they RLJed.

If I can't catch them then I get fitter trying.

If I do catch them there is every possibilty that they think I'm a knob but at least I'm a fast knob 😉

Maybe it was nothing to do with your riding, maybe he was an STW user who recognised you?

I'm with Hora on this.

He probably has a small winkie, don't worry your head about it.....
😀

racing passig riders is for noobs. not worth commentig on tho.

I wouldn't've heard him due to the iPod. Still, if I'm pootling its usually cos I want to pootle, not race.

Every ride is a race.

I see it as brightning up a dull commute. I've done it before and I've been passed and beaten likewise before.

Most memorable was when I went to overtake someone, he stepped on the gas and we drag-raced. I beat him to the lights but I was breathing out of my ass and almost seeing double...as he pulled level I turned my cheek away and pretended not to be fussed 😆

If I were commuting near you Hora, I'd slow to let you overtake me to make you feel better.

[i]a lad on a Spesh Langster overtook me[/i]

Not guilty m'lud, I drove to work today.
However, had I ridden in on my Langster, I would no doubt have overtaken you as well. 😉

Ahh you're mistake was overtaking him - you should have just slipstreamed him and only dropped him when his efforts to shake you off had exhausted him so much that he was tooo knack'd to say anything

Not guilty m'lud, I drove to work today.
However, had I ridden in on my Langster, I would no doubt have overtaken you as well.

Right that does it... Its a race!

racing passig riders is for noobs. not worth commentig on tho

**giggles**

Now I know it annoys people....... 😈

You should've burped right in his face.

Preferably curry/garlic.

once overtook a roady on my flatbar roadish bike who was clearly just setting out and warming up (stretching etc..) and then a few yards up the road he came flying past me, i'm guessing just to make a point.

i remember wanting to shout **** funny enough but i'm an adult 😉

He had earphones in but he'd removed his right one (probably to see what I'd reply)

I actually replied 'aye I bloody beat you though didn't I'.. 😆

hmmm

i've had people pass me on a climb on the commute -huffing and puffing a bit, obviously made an effort to chase and pass me. in this situation i have been known to sit on their wheel till they blow, then pass them (obv doing my best to look like i'm not trying)

i'm not very proud of myself when i do this though i have never been called a knob

As I passed him he said 'you **** ****'

What is 'being overtook' ? 8)

Overtooken, innit?

I enjoy overtaking roadies when I'm on a Borisbike. However they have to be especially poor riders for this to take place 🙂

opposite of undertooken

Never quite understood the whole racing on a commute. I had one guy come storming after me after I got passed when he got stuck in traffic, he then sat right on my rear wheel. And then failed to notice the red light when I stopped and he couldn't unclip quick enough. Uber noob lying in heap behind me. Silly roadie stopping the traffic as he tried to untangle himself from his bike...

I doubt it was anyone who recognised Hora. I doubt anyone could resist the temptation to push a stick into his spokes rather than just call him a name.

You shouldn't of passed him, instead just catch up and keep pace with him whistling loudly a happy tune whilst he's blowing out his arse trying to up the pace.

Or in answer to his comment, "you must get that saying from your wife."

And you wonder why cyclists don't get along with motorists or hikers if they even make a point of not getting along with their fellow riders.
Just saying.

Jakester - Member
He's right, you know...

+1

When I was about 12 my dad convinced me it was illegal to overtake someone who had overtaken you. I thiught I'd go to jail if I did it.

He was a boring bastard though...

you may well have confused him by stopping at a red light 😆

Schoolboy error. You should have sat on his back wheel and wheelsucked him. Much more annoying 😆

You shouldn't of passed him, instead just catch up and keep pace with him whistling loudly a happy tune whilst he's blowing out his arse trying to up the pace.

Indeed or freewheel loudly 😐 Better still get your lunch out of your back pocket and eat it on the move while he blows wind, also a good time to take calls on your mobile.

Was overtaken on my commute home today, we hit a hill he toiled i kept up my happy cadence, he then passed on the left in traffic and was almost squeezed by a bus.

Guess he just wanted passed me.

Sounds like the op acted like a tit. I'd have said the same thing if I was him. Nothing worse than idiots who want to race you, be it on the bike or a car.

http://www.bikeradar.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=12575770&start=21260

1000 plus pages of commuter racing !!!

I can't see what the issue is with having a bit of a duel, as long as it's safe what's the issue ? Langster boy should have put himself in a position where he could make it stick 😀

Fine if both parties want to race, otherwise you just look like a tit.

I can never be arsed to race on a commute. It's too far and I don't want to spend the whole day knackered. If someone sits on my wheel without asking they will get ridden off it though.

I'd just slow right down until they passed.

When I was a super fit racer type I used to love a bit of psychological warfare on my commute.

Come past some bloke, big cheery hello so they know you are a girl, slow it down a bit to see if they take the bait and try and keep up. Increase the pace gradually until they are breathing out their arse, slow down again until they take the bait again and try to pass. Hammer down and grind them into the dust both physically and psychologically.

All good harmless fun, plus a good bit of sprint training.

are we talking about commuting or what? If I passed someone at a steady pace and they decided to sit on or pass me back, then so what. I would just carry on at the same pace and think they were a pratt...whilst saving my legs for proper racing, you know, races that require a licence where you get points.

Unless I have it all wrong and Commuter racing is where its at. Oh the sense of satisfaction when you catch a roadie with a rucksack must be something else. How dare you overtake....that showed you.

commuter racing FFS ! knoobs

I must add when I say pootle, I was going down a 'hill' and spinning out so freewheeled a while.

I imagine he'd reeled me in to pass me and didn't expect the rider infront to have some life in him (i.e he probably thought I was easy pray to 'hump' and assert his maleness).

I'll always race on my commute, its such a dull, lifeless ride so why not liven it up? No one has to rise to it do they?

Are folk that stressed out that they see it as some sort of challenge to their male virility?!

On some days I'll even mark a car and see if I can catch them (and stay with them) at each set of lights.

I would just carry on at the same pace and think they were a pratt...whilst saving my legs for proper racing, you know, races that require a licence where you get points.

Ha ha! 😆

would just carry on at the same pace and think they were a pratt...whilst saving my legs for proper racing, you know, races that require a licence where you get points.

Aye but for the regular guy in the street training a great deal, eating nibbles and wearing lycra just to come 50th in a regional organised-race that wont even exist or be remembered by anyone in 30yrs time is abit shit really isn't it?

Mind you. Each to their own

As above, I can't see the problem if someone wants to sit on your wheel. It's not taking me any more energy to get to work...

I generally pass people on the ups, always say hello. A few have come gurning past me on the downs....head down, teeth grinding. I say hello to them then as well.

hora - Member

would just carry on at the same pace and think they were a pratt...whilst saving my legs for proper racing, you know, races that require a licence where you get points.

Aye but for the regular guy in the street training a great deal, eating nibbles and wearing lycra just to come 50th in a regional organised-race that wont even exist or be remembered by anyone in 30yrs time is abit shit really isn't it?

no points for 50th !!

anyway, your right. I have just destroyed my racing licence. Cant wait for tomorrow's 'commute' - hope I meet someone on a cervelo so I can 'do them ' in a sprint for a town boundary or something equally as exciting. Or maybe a bus will come past and I can jump on the back of it and pretend I am like...really fast or something.

Commuter racing. yeah !!!

Margin Walker, in life there are no points for coming first. Thats reserved for girls. Real men come last 🙂

I was once riding home from a friends house in the early hours of the morning and going at a fairly quick pace when this chap came past me riding no handed on an old touring bike whilst smoking a fag ! I didn't give chase but it still makes me chuckle now thinking about it 😀

I was out for a fast spin on my road bike recently. Overtook a bloke on a cheapo full suss bike. A couple of minutes later I noticed he was still close behind me. Bearing in mind I'm doing 20+mph average on a light bike with skinny tyres. Carried on for about 10 minutes, he kept my wheel the whole time. Reached the point where I was turning off, turned round to him and said 'fair play mate!'. He looked like he was about to explode, was sweating like a pig and unable to speak. He just gave me a massive grin and a thumbs up.He'd nearly given himself a heart attack, but was so chuffed with himself!

Why not, eh? Good to see. Don't hurt no-one. 🙂

It's a bit of harmless racing on hora's part. The original bloke and everyone berating hora needs to relax a bit.

Only race when it's a race? Jesus. Have some fun in your life.

No harm in a bit of commuter racing. So long as it's just a bit of friendly light hearted competition. But to start name calling because you got reeled in and re-passed, that's just childish. I certainly wouldn't go calling a stranger names like that, you just can't be sure how well adjusted that person may be.

If you pass him again Hora just give a cheery "Morning!" makes him seem like twice as much of a cock by comparison, if you're an amiable and plesant chap.

If he retook me I'd have silently said 'barsteward', grinned and when pulled up said 'hello, nice weather etc. What gear are you running'.

Saying that some riders at lights stare straight ahead and wont even say hi. Some folk are just too miserable.

I'm still with you on this Hora. S'fun, innit? Nowt more 🙂

Sounds like the op acted like a ****. I'd have said the same thing if I was him. Nothing worse than idiots who want to race you

But why? Why would you think that? Why would you say that? If you don't wanna be overtaken, don't overtake anyone. And why act like a spoiled brat if you are overtaken?

I can only think of one reason to be like that: You're beaten and you know it. 😛

If they are slower than you then they are fair game..........just dont let them re-overtake you! DOH! 🙄

[i]And you wonder why cyclists don't get along with motorists or hikers if they even make a point of not getting along with their fellow riders.[/i]

[i]Getting along[/i] with fellow riders? Have you seen the squabbles on here??!

Was commuting home on the MTB t'other day on fatties. Some noob thought he could take me on a hill, he got dropped quicker than that hookers knickers after Rooney had handed over the cheque (allegdly, dont want STW in trouble do we).

Commute racing is fun. Dont worry about him, prob had his pride bashed whilst being watched by glum faced car drivers 🙂

Nothign wrong with a bit race on the way to or from work. If I get passed by a roadie on my hack bike I always see how long I can keep up with them. It's a bit of fun and helps the fitness whilst not hurting anyone.

I'm working on the premise that miserable people who save racing for the race track are just saying it to wind us up and this was in fact someone who actually knows Hora as suggested above. 😉

surely its only a race when the other person knows they're in a race and wants to take part?

when some fool sits next to me at traffic lights revving away in his saxo and races away from the lights... he's in a race with an imagined competitor.... i get to make the choice whether i'm racing, not him.

so whats the harm in setting yourself targets on your commute/ride to work, whether its a time you want to beat, a car you want to beat or someone with a sexier bike you want to beat... as long as you're not doing anything dangerous in the process?

for the people that get stressed about being overtaken, you need to get over your poor poor egos, go treat yourself to a skinny mocha choca lotta latte and reassure yourself you're awesome no matter how fast or slow you go 🙂 If you rise to the bait and end up racing the person yuo're annoyed with for racing, then your a willing competitor to a race you dont know the rules of... fooooooool

Definitely re-overtake, especially if their bike looks faster than yours. http://www.itsnotarace.org/

I'd drag-race another car or rise to someone drive fast or overtaking me in a car.

The closest I've gotten to this is leap-frogging on the motorway with a fellow motorist. It enlivens a boring long motorway drive.

On a bicycle is totally different.

2 cyclists = race

It really is that simple.

I'd drag-race another car or rise to someone drive fast or overtaking me in a car.

Ignore that, I meant to insert NEVER.

The title says it all, should have just "sat on" and got a easy tow to work, bell.

I'm a total child when it comes to roadies. If they pass me I often speed up and sit at the back of their group.

Nothing like a full suspension mtb sitting right behind them to get them twitchy. One chap at the back of a group got quite shirty recently when I was riding my Anthem along behind them on a country road and kept free wheeling loudly.