Racing another cyclist while commuting
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winjim
Straddle the line, discord and rhyme
kevin_cambs_uk
Guru
- Location
- Near Cambridge
That's how you can get fitter.
Thanks for the link. It made me laugh. But so true.
Ern1e
Über Member
- Location
- ROSSENDALE LANCS.
It also gave me a chuckle or two lol, but did you do your fcn ?
glenn forger
Guest
If they burn you up when you're pootling, don't get emotional. Sort that rubbish out, you want to be disciplined. They sweep past by timing the lights right as you've waited? Boo hoo, why don't you just buy a car and get fat? Time it. Timing it is exquisite. Get them, ON AN UPHILL!!!! Any charlie can overtake on a downhill, I laugh at them. Don't look at them. Don't acknowledge them in any way.
Bang down the gears, stretch your legs, engage, pump, cruise past. 'twas a trifle. Piffling. Bring 'em on.
I cycle in chinos and a polo shirt mostly, any of those roadie bumfluffs want to try it with me I'll leave them sweating like a paedophile on a bouncy castle, I've had it all, the panting overtake to draw level, you can tell they're busting a gut and then they ease off and ride parallel! Drop them. Bang down, stretch legs, pump. Don't even condescend to glance at the silly billies.
Bang down the gears, stretch your legs, engage, pump, cruise past. 'twas a trifle. Piffling. Bring 'em on.
I cycle in chinos and a polo shirt mostly, any of those roadie bumfluffs want to try it with me I'll leave them sweating like a paedophile on a bouncy castle, I've had it all, the panting overtake to draw level, you can tell they're busting a gut and then they ease off and ride parallel! Drop them. Bang down, stretch legs, pump. Don't even condescend to glance at the silly billies.
Mr Haematocrit
msg me on kik for android
- Location
- Out of the saddle
I like it when silly little stravassoles pass me on my carbon bike, must absolutely make their day, amuses me greatly watching them grinning like a young boy with his first porn magazine.
It certainly makes my day if its windy, I just tuck in behind them and get an easy ride up the road.
I race on a circuit, join me if your up to it.
It certainly makes my day if its windy, I just tuck in behind them and get an easy ride up the road.
I race on a circuit, join me if your up to it.
I'm based in Hertfordshire
cyberknight
As long as I breathe, I attack.
- Location
- Land of confusion
Good old SCR
If someone catches me good on them and if i see someone in the distance i am not going to make a special effort to catch them , you never know how far or hard they have ridden or how harder a job they have to get in a tizzy about it all .
Its like strava , i know its in my sig but its more a training aid for me to see if i am hanging in there as i get older to compare against myself , i do not have the time or energy to go chasing KOM`s anymore.
If someone catches me good on them and if i see someone in the distance i am not going to make a special effort to catch them , you never know how far or hard they have ridden or how harder a job they have to get in a tizzy about it all .
Its like strava , i know its in my sig but its more a training aid for me to see if i am hanging in there as i get older to compare against myself , i do not have the time or energy to go chasing KOM`s anymore.
Shut Up Legs
Down Under Member
Knowing when to go hard and when to slack off helps, too. My commute home from work each day is 33.5km with about 500m climbing, so I have to pace myself. Sometimes I'll deliberately hold my speed down a bit, knowing that when a commuter cup racer flashes past me, I'll have energy in reserve to show him*** the error of his ways! 
*** Yes, it's generally a "he": I hardly ever see women doing CCRs. I guess they really are our better halves.
*** Yes, it's generally a "he": I hardly ever see women doing CCRs. I guess they really are our better halves.
steveindenmark
Legendary Member
It's that testosterone thing again. I bet women don't do this.
BlackPanther
Hyper-Fast Recumbent Riding Member.
- Location
- Doncaster.
A lot of us like to play 'The Game'.
Even more fun than overtaking someone is to intentionally slow down a tad. Let them very slowly catch up with you (you need mirrors for this.) Then you have 3 options.
1/ Let them overtake you, by which time they will be at the point of collapse, and a re-scalp will be no effort whatsoever.
2/ When they're seconds from overtaking, just accelerate away at Warp 9.
3/ Let them overtake you and take no action, just see it as your good deed for the day.
nazzurro19
Active Member
- Location
- norwich
i have to admit i pass the same 6/7 cyclists day in day out on my commute to work i dont deliberately overtake them but yesterday one of them had a new racing bike and at the lights from red to green he stood up and gave it his all in top gear which made him accelerate very slowly i passed as normal and then he was trying to race me most of the way back for about a mile and a half
glenn forger
Guest
If you compare this with something completely different then the reaction would be different, yes.
