Bad manners

[Saluki]

They might have been mid interval and speaking is rather difficult, or going for that strava section ?

Strava section in the Fens?

I had a bunch of riders just fly past me last thursday. The lead rider yelled 'hole' just as I was manouvering around it. No 'hello' or anything and they made me jump.
As for getting round the hole, they didn't leave me a lot of room so I had to go the other side of the hole or over it. I chose the other side. My aim is getting better.

I could see that they were shifting so on a good old training ride but I could have done without being startled.

 

[BUR70N]

That is very true.

Don't give up being nice because of others bad manners. You never know who you might meet along the way.

Indeed, better to be polite than just rude. Sometimes you get a smile or a nod back other times...

 

[puch]

People who drive Land Rovers (the original sort) usually acknowledge each other on the road.

Ditto bikers, but with caveats: sports bikes don't admit trail bikes & Harley's; Harley's ignore anything but their own; commuters on hairdryers are invisible and, everyone ignores BMW's...

 

[perplexed]

Strava section in the Fens?

I had a bunch of riders just fly past me last thursday. The lead rider yelled 'hole' just as I was manouvering around it. No 'hello' or anything and they made me jump.
As for getting round the hole, they didn't leave me a lot of room so I had to go the other side of the hole or over it. I chose the other side. My aim is getting better.

I could see that they were shifting so on a good old training ride but I could have done without being startled.

Are sure it was just 'hole' he yelled, and you didn't miss the first bit?

 

[BUR70N]

You mean to say 'a hole' was there?!

 

[Rob3rt]

I think you need to look introspectivelly if someone not saying Hi bothers you!

 

[goo_mason]

Try saying it to everyone that you encounter for a week and then re-assess the situation.

My Mum does, and has been for years and years. She's got on chatting acquaintance with SO many people that way, even if she has no idea who they are!

 

[goo_mason]

Occasionally I'll say a cheery 'morning' as I pass people on the way to work. On the way home, when it's busier, I usually nod & smile or slightly raise a hand from the bar in acknowledgement.

 

[on the road]

I often overtake other cyclists without saying hello or letting on, I don't consider that rude, I don't know them, never seen them before and once I've passed passed them I'll probably never see them again.

 

[RedFeend]

This problem is easily alleviated by something we learned in childhood.

Polystyrene chip cartons. Tear a piece off, and jam it in the rear of the frame to make it lightly poke into the rear spokes. It thus produces a pleasant buzzing noise as one cycles, pretending to be a motorbike.

Regarding the Land Rover flashing thing. That is fine.

However, if you are a Land Rover owner who persists in displaying the 'One Life. Live it' legend on the rear of the vehicle, then may all the hounds of Hell descend on you and eat your testicles. Preferably not having brushed their teeth first. You do not have special insight to life which the rest of humanity somehow lacks. That is all...

Oh, and morning all!

In my youth it was playing cards and a clothes peg on the spoke.

Chips were wrapped in newspaper.

Land Rover owners don't flash. They raise their hand. I drive a 300tdi not a series 1. My spare wheel cover says 'Land Rover'. No slogans.

I don't have testicles (they haven't been bitten off, I've never had them or wanted them).

I will continue to acknowledge people I meet on these quiet Fen roads.

I will continue to be me and others around here will continue to be who they are.

That's all. End of.

 

[Summerking]

When I go out cycling here in Cornwall on the back roads I always acknowledge another cyclist or pedestrian, blanking someone who is only a few feet from you as you pass is to me plain rude, most cyclists and pedestrians down here do reply to or acknowledge you, often they greet you first.

 

[Fnaar]

When walking in the hills, I always say 'noon' to people I pass. Even if it's morning.

 

[hopless500]

Are sure it was just 'hole' he yelled, and you didn't miss the first bit?

 

[colly]

My Mum does, and has been for years and years. She's got on chatting acquaintance with SO many people that way, even if she has no idea who they are!

Mrs Colly is exactly like that.

Walking to the polling station last time we had to do out 'democratic duty', a woman walks out from a side road and happens to be walking next to us. Her and my Mrs chat away merrily all the way the the polling station. Probably 5 mins walk, if that, in that time I am sure they passed enough information about family, finances, illnesses etc that either one could have done a passable identity theft.

On the way back home I asked did she know her from work.....................''Er, no, I've never seen her before''

 

[400bhp]

suppose it depends a lot on the situation too.

7am on a cold january saturday morning wrapped up in multiple layers, peering out of the gap between hat and buff, you deffo share greetings - warm in the knowledge that both you and the other cyclist are one sandwich short.