Just goes to show that roadies and roadies everywhere.
I can picture well the scene that s7ephaine describes. Pretty much everyone greets each other in a rural French shop; 'Madam, Monsieur' etc as they walk in. It's habit as much as anything else. And whilst I've never met a full lycra roadie in a shop, I have been ignored by the steely-eyed thousand yard stare on the road. I guess that's habit too.