Drago
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Its the same in cars. How often have you been driving, someone overtakes and then sits in front at the same speed as you? It's a psychological inadequacy, an atavistic desire to 'dominte' others.
The weird one in cars is the opposite: speeding up as you're about to overtake.Its the same in cars. How often have you been driving, someone overtakes and then sits in front at the same speed as you?
The weird one in cars is the opposite: speeding up as you're about to overtake.
On motorways and dual-carriageways, I stick cruise-control on and am thus doing a constant speed. I'll often be doing 70, slowly gaining on someone doing 67-ish, then when I pull out to overtake, they speed up. I drop back in behind them and they slow down again.
A good 10%-ish of cars do this.
My biggest gripe is when you come up behind someone clearly taking it easy, not really paying attention to whats going on around them, even freewheeling on the flats (not as many as you might think in norwich). You have the audacity to overtake them at a decent pace and the next thing you know, you here changing of gears and they're try to stick to your rear wheel as if we were bestest buddies (no i haven't run out of steam!) If you could go that fast in the first place, why didn't you? It's seems to always be late twenty to early middle age blokes on nice looking drop bar/flat bar bikes fresh out of the box. Some cyclist are well tetchy .
I find these more "fun" to chase i try and catch them while following the rules and not RLJ to prove to them how RLJ didoes work :-)there's a good reason for all this - a slightly faster cycle is often a good challenge for the ride..
except when they ignore traffic lights and take risks beyond my risk treshold...
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