Road bike cyclists, why don't you nod back?
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GrumpyGregry
Here for rides.
Yep. Because not waving to people who wear the same brand of shoes as me is the definitive hallmark of miserablism.Hi Mr Gregory sorry to trouble you but the first part of your user name is garbled on my screen, perhaps you could decode it for me
nickyboy
Norven Mankey
- Location
- You want hills? We got hills
Come on, admit it. You are a bit of a miserable twat aren't you though?
deptfordmarmoset
Full time tea drinker
- Location
- Armonmy Way
Why can't you lot all just nod off?
andyfraser
Über Member
- Location
- Bristol
Since getting a road bike and spending much more time riding on the road I find quite a lot of people wave or nod at me. I always wave or nod back and have now reached a point where I just do it without thinking. I don't know what that woman on her MTB thought this morning when I waved and smiled as I sailed down hill as she was struggling up in the other direction.
GrumpyGregry
Here for rides.
Nope. Because the joke user name of a character being played out in a cycling forum is not the definitive hallmark of miserabilist twattery in the real person.
GrumpyGregry
Here for rides.
You are lucky. They point and laugh at me...
Saluki
World class procrastinator
- Location
- ...Norwich over the water.
I nod, smile, wave etc (whichever is the most appropriate at the time given the conditions that I'm riding in) to pretty much everyone I see on a bike, whatever sort of bike they are riding. I'm just a tart like that.
I have noticed that when I'm no my MTB that roadies ignore me but just put it down to people being people. I don't sweat it.
I have noticed that when I'm no my MTB that roadies ignore me but just put it down to people being people. I don't sweat it.
GrasB
Veteran
- Location
- Nr Cambridge
Because those who choose to cycle shouldn't see them selves as a clique group which need to recognise each others choice of being in that group. It should be just a normal every day thing, such as walking. Would you wave to ever pedestrian you see walking down the road?... 
BWould you wave to ever pedestrian you see walking down the road?...
Around here at least, people do just that, well smile anyway.
I used to say hi, nod or whatever years ago, but cycling is so popular now. I'd rather just crack on with my ride, I will often 'let on' to other riders, but not always.
BrianEvesham
Mask is gone!
- Location
- South Littleton, Evesham.
Erm, yes.Would you wave to ever pedestrian you see walking down the road?...
Arrh, rural life!
andyfraser
Über Member
- Location
- Bristol
I see it as a real world extension of forums like this one. We're all here because one of our hobbies/interests is cycling. We chat about bikes and equipment which is to be expected. For better or worse we are a hobbyist group with a minority interest and acknowledge each other in the same way as MG owners, people walking certain breeds of dog or other groups with something in common.Because those who choose to cycle shouldn't see them selves as a clique group which need to recognise each others choice of being in that group. It should be just a normal every day thing, such as walking. Would you wave to ever pedestrian you see walking down the road?...
GrasB
Veteran
- Location
- Nr Cambridge
Ah, you get it
Even when in rural areas this only happens when the local population is very small. Do I say hello to people I know from my local village, yes. I do that if I meet them in the middle of a Cambridge as well, why because they're known to me. This is exactly how things were 20-30 years ago in a small village in Derbyshire, interaction with people in your village & possibly the ones close to yours if it was a very small village but once the population got to a certain size then you didn't say hello etc. However meet someone from your village in the (no-so) local town and you'd say hi.
Two points
1) You'll find far less classic MGs kicking about & owners of modern MGs mostly just see them as an other modern car & say I go down to the local playing field for a walk & stay there for 30 min. I'll see about 1 cyclist every 2-3 min. I'll see 1 or 2 dog owners in the same period
2) You're talking about very small subsets of much larger populations where the default is no interaction because well people are strangers.
It really irks me too when I go out of my way to nod or wave to a fellow cyclist and they dont have the common decency to return even the slightest acknowledgement.
The real sting in the tail though is when I report it to the police and they say 'they will follow it up...' Knowing full well they wont, I dont know why we pay our taxes...
The real sting in the tail though is when I report it to the police and they say 'they will follow it up...' Knowing full well they wont, I dont know why we pay our taxes...
guitarpete247
Just about surviving
- Location
- Leicestershire
