Sad little vignette ...

[jefmcg]

A couple of weeks ago, I was on the top of Box Hill with @vickster, and while we were stopped I took a quick panorama. A guy appeared on the grass near me wearing a red "Beating Blood Cancer" jersey, breathing so hard I thought he was about to die. Anyway, I asked if he was OK, he turned and I realised he was a young man, and not about to die. Obviously he had just caned it up the hill. A few seconds later he was joined by another guy in the same jersey and they took pictures of each other, holding their fists and then their bikes above their heads. After a minute or 2 they got back on their bikes and headed back the way they had come - just as a third guy in the same jersey got to the top, looked wistfully over his shoulder at his departing friends, and turned around immediately and followed them.

No victory photos for the loser!

It was a lovely day, though. Sorry I didn't take a photo of the riders.

 

[Pat "5mph"]

I would have offered to take a picture of him and bike with his phone.
Actually, shame on the friends, they should have waited for him.

 

[winjim]

There's a joke to be made here but it's in such terribly poor taste that I shan't make it. You can guess what it is.

 

[Bollo]

Box Hill is a disappointment.

 

[jefmcg]

I would have offered to take a picture of him and bike with his phone.

He was out of sight before I even registered what had happened and said "oh!". Also, they weren't speaking English, so it could have been a complicated dialogue.

Actually, shame on the friends, they should have waited for him.

Yes. They will never even know about it. The wind will have dried his tears by the next stop, and you don't say "why didn't you wait for me" to riders who clearly have HTFU.

 

[jefmcg]

Box Hill is a disappointment.

Depends what you were expecting.

 

[Bollo]

Depends what you were expecting.

More.