Lady Cyclists - Etiquette?

[Yellow Saddle]

Hello. Your pace or mine?

 

[jnrmczip]

I seem to be continually overtaken by everyone on my morning commute down the Bristol Railway Path. still, it's a commute, not a race.

Maybe they have all just slept in ?? And rushing around.
Haha

 

[GrumpyGregry]

Bottom line, is there any etiquette in such situations? Or should I have followed closely?

Bottom line? Chortle.

Dunno. But my girl friends tell me "bottom ogling" or, as one put it, "arse letching" is perfectly allowable when out running with lycra clad men and thus what is sauce for the running goose is probably also sauce for the cycling gander.

And srsly "ladies"?

 

[Dan B]

How did you know they were titled? Did they have their coats of arms emblazoned on the sides of their bikes?

 

[ufkacbln]

Personally I was traumatised a female cyclist...

I had a puncture on the trike and a young female roadie stopped to see if I was OK, and then chatted as I repaired the puncture

Now for someone of my age, being chatted to by a charming female cyclist who has stopped for the purpose is an ego boost!

Then came the trauma.....

She explained that you can get the tyres back on without using levers, and before I could say Marathon Plus.........she added, but I suppose at your age the arthritis must make that difficult.

 

[ufkacbln]

More seriously...

I remember an article a few years ago about female cyclists who had broken down.

The suggestion was that approaching them, especially at night could be frightening

The answer was not to dismount, but to stay on your bike a few feet away and offer assistance, tools or a mobile phone, only dismounting and approaching when requested to do so

 

[ufkacbln]

Hello. Your pace or mine?

Is this when you find out that she is a "fast woman"

 

[Pale Rider]

A few years ago I had a breathing problem which made me wheeze while walking.

I was gaining ground on a young lass who, surprisingly, was going even slower than me.

She glanced back and I could see real fear in her eyes.

Unwittingly, I had made a woman fear sexual assault.

Thus when passed by a lone female cyclist, I will drop back a bit enabling her to quickly establish a comfort zone.

I would be less bothered if she was accompanied, but still wouldn't try to hang on to her wheel.

 

[stephec]

A few years ago I had a breathing problem which made me wheeze while walking.

I was gaining ground on a young lass who, surprisingly, was going even slower than me.

She glanced back and I could see real fear in her eyes.

Unwittingly, I had made a woman fear sexual assault.

Thus when passed by a lone female cyclist, I will drop back a bit enabling her to quickly establish a comfort zone.

I would be less bothered if she was accompanied, but still wouldn't try to hang on to her wheel.

I've been in a similar situation when walking behind a girl once at night.

She kept looking over her shoulder, so I ended up walking at a snail's pace until she was well ahead.

 

[derrick]

I ride with a lot of girls, and there are a lot who are faster than me, i will sit on there wheels as much as they sit on mine,

 

[snorri]

. However, if a female cyclist appears to be nervous of having you behind them,

OK, but as a single man you will have to help me with this, I'm behind her, right? So how can I tell if she is nervous, does her arse twitch, or what?

 

[shouldbeinbed]

Cruise up behind them, slap the nearest one on the bum and say, two sugars in mine at the next tea stop love. Then tell the you're the local UKIP candidate and laugh like Sid James while bracing yourself for the well deserved beating.

*joking, honest*

 

[ufkacbln]

I've been in a similar situation when walking behind a girl once at night.

She kept looking over her shoulder, so I ended up walking at a snail's pace until she was well ahead.

Recommendation by (some) women's groups is never to walk behind a lone female, cross the road and walk on the other side

 

[ufkacbln]

I'd be traumatised too if someone had a sex-change right in front of me.

Sorted!

 

[Pale Rider]

OK, but as a single man you will have to help me with this, I'm behind her, right? So how can I tell if she is nervous, does her arse twitch, or what?

You can't tell if she's nervous of you.

But common courtesy - not to say common sense - requires you to assume she may be.