Road bike cyclists, why don't you nod back?

[Cyclopathic]

Hooray.. The penny jar is getting low..and it's a good one too...

How does the penny jar work? Do you put money in for each post or each time a thread is started?

 

[martint235]

Surely it won't run to










8 pages.

I think we'll get to 10.




At that point someone will probably start a new thread

 

[ianrauk]

How does the penny jar work? Do you put money in for each post or each time a thread is started?

Each time a thread is started..

 

[Flick of the Elbow]

Another example this morning, got passed by a miserable git on a racing bike wearing Saxo team jersey, just rode passed me like I didn't exist. In the old days you'd learn riding etiquette by joining a club but nowadays many of the cyclists that you see on racing bikes haven't had this education and the only social interaction they want is on strava or in pretend races.

 

[slowmotion]

Each time a thread is started..

Please can I have the helmet franchise?
Please!

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

Please can I have the helmet franchise?
Please!

Here, have a helmet piggy bank....

 

[slowmotion]

@deptfordmarmoset, that's my old age sorted then. I love you.

 

[Pat "5mph"]

Another example this morning, got passed by a miserable git on a racing bike wearing Saxo team jersey, just rode passed me like I didn't exist. In the old days you'd learn riding etiquette by joining a club but nowadays many of the cyclists that you see on racing bikes haven't had this education and the only social interaction they want is on strava or in pretend races.

Ha! The op is right then! Lycra cladded roadies are most snobbish!
Because there are no clubs for mounting bikers, nor for old ladies on bso with baskets. We don't need no education!

 

[User6179]

Another example this morning, got passed by a miserable git on a racing bike wearing Saxo team jersey, just rode passed me like I didn't exist. In the old days you'd learn riding etiquette by joining a club but nowadays many of the cyclists that you see on racing bikes haven't had this education and the only social interaction they want is on strava or in pretend races.

Are you joking ?, He is probably the local clubs social secretary

 

[SpokeyDokey]

I have done a study on this, I am only half a page into my thesis but I see a Phd* looming, this is how it goes:
brand new bike, doesn't matter if it is a mounting bike or a roading bike but you are glad to be out on it so you smile a lot and wave at others you see on bikes who must be feeling just like you. Those that wave back fit into 9 different categories of nice and those that do not only 1 as far as I can tell although there are sub categories including a) Lycra clad and b) bike that cost more than £60.
I am determined to finish this first page before sundown so any increase or insight on the 9 types of nice nodders would speed me along.

Bugger - I didn't see this in time for your deadline.

I had heaps to offer as well.

 

[slowmotion]

I got back from Richmond Park at about 7:30 pm after a great traffic-free bimble in the darkness amongst the occasional stag and young deer that get caught in the front light as you go by. I like the Park after dark. At weekends it tends to be utterly rammed with blinged up roadies, but they head home when darkness falls, and when the road empties, its magic. You can do a circuit and only see a dozen cyclists. Imagine my surprise when, having wheezed up Dark Hill, a couple of people on road bikes came alongside and wished me a "Good Evening".
I buried them under the patio.

 

[Flick of the Elbow]

Ha! The op is right then! Lycra cladded roadies are most snobbish!
Because there are no clubs for mounting bikers, nor for old ladies on bso with baskets. We don't need no education!

Not helpful.

 

[martint235]

I got back from Richmond Park at about 7:30 pm after a great traffic-free bimble in the darkness amongst the occasional stag and young deer that get caught in the front light as you go by. I like the Park after dark. At weekends it tends to be utterly rammed with blinged up roadies, but they head home when darkness falls, and when the road empties, its magic. You can do a circuit and only see a dozen cyclists. Imagine my surprise when, having wheezed up Dark Hill, a couple of people on road bikes came alongside and wished me a "Good Evening".
I buried them under the patio.

Good job, well done. That's two less nobbers to disturb my commute.

 

[snorri]

Good job, well done. That's two less nobbers to disturb my commute.

Pehaps in the short term, but the nodding cyclists equivalent of Mormon City has already dispatched a replacement team of nodding evangelists to the Richmond Park parish.

 

[slowmotion]

Pehaps in the short term, but the nodding cyclists equivalent of Mormon City has already dispatched a replacement team of nodding evangelists to the Richmond Park parish.

My patio is really quite big....