Saying Hello When Passing / Ettiquette

[benb]

I also like saying hello to pedestrians I have stopped to let cross (I do that a lot, when safe to do so), and drivers of convertibles who have their roofs down.
I guess I'm just a friendly person.

It's one of the great things about cycling - how convivial it is.

 

[Profpointy]

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.

he was too busy concentrating on balancing !

 

[Markymark]

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.

He probably panicked that you'd upload a video of him because he cycled within 10 feet of you.

 

[John the Monkey]

And relax.


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jzx664u5DA

 

[martint235]

Feck off. I don't have any "fellow cyclists". I'm either on a ride with them in which case we said hello at the start or they are not my "fellows" and can just feck right off. I make an exception for the one in a morning with the very cute smile but that's it.

I talk to peds cos I'm a friendly kind of guy.

 

[cd365]

I say hello to every cyclist I pass on the road; whether they have a helmet on or not. If they are on the pavement I ignore them.

 

[Brightski]

Some think they are too cool to wave = not cool!

 

[tyred]

I regularly pass other cyclists and I always offer words of encouragement every single time I pass a cyclist.

But I suspect the noise of the engine and insulating effects of the car windows means they don't hear me.

 

[uphillstruggler]

Nothing wrong with trying to be nice and fit in. Gosh, there's some right miserable old farts on here!!!

Some??

 

[Ajay]

I waved at a rabbit this morning, little fecker just turned and hopped into a hedge. Ignorant cotton-tailed w@nker.

 

[benb]

He probably panicked that you'd upload a video of him because he cycled within 10 feet of you.

Oh you are droll.

 

[w00hoo_kent]

I also like saying hello to pedestrians I have stopped to let cross (I do that a lot, when safe to do so), and drivers of convertibles who have their roofs down.
I guess I'm just a friendly person.
It's one of the great things about cycling - how convivial it is.

I once asked a guy in an SUV if any of the emails he was reading on his phone were interesting as he trundled along in the traffic I was filtering past. He jumped like he'd been stung.

I say 'good morning' to the lollipop peeps when I pass them each morning, although I don't always commute the same route so haven't seem them since the schools went back. One says 'good morning' back, so that's nice.

Near the beginning of my commuting I was at the bottom of Bluebell Hill, about to do the ascent and a guy coming down saluted me, which near made my day. I still almost died from the exertion, but I'd have done it with a confusing smile on my face (Phil Liggett would then have reminded everyone it was not a smile of joy, but pain).

I always try to post something in a thread about waving to people, I think it's equally polite :-)

 

[Cycliste de route]

I always try and say 'ayup', or give a simple nod of the head.

I actually try to acknowledge runners/joggers also, but they almost always look far too knackered to return the gesture

 

[uclown2002]

Honestly, WGAF?

 

[Retribution03]

But his it a full on wave you all do or just a raised hand and are the nods an up nod or a down nod?