Sometimes I hate other cyclist
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Leodis
Veteran
- Location
- Moortown, Leeds
I braked to the left not dead straight, he followed my line to the side. It wasn’t a fast 25mph type brake test, it was like 10 mph up a slog. I wouldnt do it again, I would put the pedal down and ATTACK, ATTACK, ATTACK
winjim
Straddle the line, discord and rhyme
This, of course, is the other option. Preferably whilst simultaneously tutting and giving him a hard stare
LCpl Boiled Egg
Three word soundbite
Nice edit @13:57. I'm pretty sure your original post said you'd do it again. What changed your mind?
Leodis
Veteran
- Location
- Moortown, Leeds
Yeah I might, shave my legs and talk about Watt outage
I made a typo and meant to say I wouldnt do it again.
LCpl Boiled Egg
Three word soundbite
Fair enough.
I'm considering it
MontyVeda
a short-tempered ill-controlled small-minded troll
- Location
- Lancaster... the little city.
I can empathise with Leodis... me and a pal did a tour of The Lakes years ago, and whenever i rode in front, he'd be a couple of inches off my back wheel... mostly at speeds way too low to make a difference... it was massively annoying... especially when he started berating me every time I touched my brakes. "Stop riding up my arse then!" "I'm riding in your slipstream." "What f***ing slipstream? We're going about ten f***ing miles an hour!!" We're hoping to do the WOTR this year or next... i anticipate the same.
Crankarm
Guru
- Location
- Nr Cambridge
Any one I see far behind who looks like they are busting a gut to catch up with me, I slightly raise my cadence, nothing too strenuous on my part but enough to make them work a little harder but still allowing them to get nearer to me. Then as they approach my rear wheel I slow giving he impression I've cracked, heeheeeeeee, and let them pass, heeheeheee then as they do so I jump on their rear wheel and get a nice tow for however long they are going my way. They of course will continue to bust a gut to maintain their futile over taking move as they won't want to lose face and in doing so they will do all the work pulling me along. Ha-ha! If obviously they do slow right down as they are just weak cyclists then I just burn straight past them leaving them with egg and ignomy on their face. I'm gone. Heeheeheeeheeeeheeee. If you have a persistent wheel sucker then just fart a nice long low frequency tunnel shaker. This should get rid of them.
thefollen
Veteran
- Location
- Balham/Tooting Bec
My legs from various weekend/Monday physical endeavors were absolutely shot as I span home the couple of miles from boxing last night. I was scalped by a lady.
If someone closes in on me I slowly move to the right, making sure they follow my line. They get approx two minutes of free slipstream then I move left, stop pedalling and shout "your turn now!" I sometimes flick my elbow out too but hardly anyone seems to know what this means.
totallyfixed
Veteran
- Location
- The only county without a McDonalds
Is this somehow worse than being overtaken by a gentleman?
thefollen
Veteran
- Location
- Balham/Tooting Bec
Not worse necessarily, simply more infrequent. Believe it's the second ever occurrence.
