Saying Hello When Passing / Ettiquette

[glenn forger]

For the umpteenth...

draw level. say nothing. don't look at them. Suddenly shout "ALLEZ!!!!"

charge off.

You're welcome.

 

[Markymark]

I offer sex to every other cyclist I pass. Only about 1 in 4 take the offer.

Miserable bunch.

 

[Bollo]

I accept offers of sex.

 

[Cyclopathic]

if 'fellow' cyclist looks like a nobber, why should i bother?

Because it's always useful to practice your interpretive dance, whether it's to a nobber or not.

 

[Turdus philomelos]

I usually keep my interpretive dance for specific drivers on my commute to and from work. I sometimes treat them to some basic elementary lip ready interpretation as well

 

[pauldavid]

I always say hello to a fellow cyclist.

How do you spot them when they haven't got their bike with them?

 

[byegad]

So no offers then?

 

[youngoldbloke]

To greet a fellow roadie an almost imperceptible raising from the bars of the smallest finger of the right hand should suffice, anything more is embarrassingly excessive ....

 

[vernon]

Hello!

I got passed about 2 weeks ago by a fella on a roadie. He said "hello mate" and it made me smile.

Then, yesterday, the first time I've passed someone else since this incident and I didn't say hello.

The etiquette part of cycling is somewhat of a mystery to me, as I've yet to ride with other cycling enthusiasts and I'm still a bit green.

Anyway - should I have said hello?

I'm also interested in hearing peoples thoughts on this in general TBF.

There is no etiquette. You aren't part of some special subgroup of humanity with attendant rituals. You share the preoccupation with visual/audible acknowledgement with 2CV owners, MG Midget owners, MGB GT owners, Parcelforce truck drivers, Land Rover drivers, motor cyclists, Sainsbury home delivery drivers, Tesco Home delivery drivers, Norbet Detressangle truck drivers, Stobart truck drivers, bus drivers from the same company, taxi drivers from the same taxi company and other minority motorised road user groups. It's nearly as bad as the folk who list their bike collection in their sig lines.

They are all nobbers.

Be a Jedi like @Marmion and make the world a better place.

 

[winjim]

 

[jdtate101]

Yawn...not this again! Please please please can people stop asking this. It's almost as bad as the ruddy helmet debating threads.

 

[winjim]

Yawn...not this again! Please please please can people stop asking this. It's almost as bad as the ruddy helmet debating threads.

There's a debate about helmets? I hadn't heard...

 

[vernon]

There's a debate about helmets? I hadn't heard...

@Fnaar's got a purple helmet

 

[winjim]

@Fnaar's got a purple helmet

In that case is it a mass debate?

 

[benb]

I always say hello/good morning/hiya or whatever, but I don't normally care whether the other party acknowledges me.

A while ago I was just behind someone doing a trackstand at the lights, and I cheerfully said hi, and something along the lines of how I wish I could do that.
Completely ignored me, which I did find rather rude.