UphillSlowly
Making my way slowly uphill
Seems to be different conventions depending where I am in the UK. Is it less friendly the further south I go? Are roadies less friendly?
This has been done on the forum a thousand times.
Say hello or don't say hello. Ignore or don't ignore. It really doesn't matter. If you are the type that gets upset at someone not saying hello when you're on a ride, then cycling's not for you. Enjoy your own ride, don't worry about others.
Its the same where ever you go in the country, so stop with the north/south divide thing.
This mornings rant over. Thanks.
Oh yes. The penny jar needs topping up... so...
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edit: Oh yes, sometimes I say hello, sometimes I ignore. Dependent on my cycling mood.
I do get more acknowledgement than before the lockdowns. It might be just people's attitude to bikes having changed -the different "tribes" within cycling being more defined then, but perhaps now we are all just cyclists. Something else has changed for me since then though. I used to ride a general purpose drop handlebar touring bike, so to casual cyclists maybe I looked like another "roadie", whereas to dedicated roadies I obviously wasn't one of them, though many people did nod or raise a hand. Nowadays I am usually out on some sort of recumbent, and nearly everyone acknowledges me in some way, and many more actually speak as they go past. Not scientific, but that is my experience.