The idiot on my back wheel

[BigAl68]

Does anyone else suffer from this?

Over the past few weeks I seem to be getting two different cyclists getting on my back wheel and staying there. One is a fairly nice young lad who after talking to him last week now, when given the lift of the right elbow, comes past and takes over and we seem to get home fine. I don't know they guy but he is polite and we say hi and bye when we meet and part. The other older guy in his fourties rides like an idiot. He gets behind me, half wheels me and once touched my rear mech. I have asked politely to pull back or pass without joy so yesterday I had enough and gave him a piece of my mind. He seemed to think I was the one in the wrong...

Anyone else deal with idiots like this. It should be noted we are on the Bristol to Bath Cycle Path and I am trying to get home quickly but safely and give other walkers and riders due care and respect but this guy is a nobber.

 

[raleighnut]

I'd look down at the bike a few times then slow as if I had a mechanical then when he overtook wheelsuck the fecker muttering and grousing about nowt in particular. See how he likes it.

 

[Fab Foodie]

Fart

 

[glasgowcyclist]

It mainly happens to me on my commute home, which is mostly uphill. When I find I'm being trailed by a wheelsucker I let the bike coast long enough to force him to pass; it's a stupid thing to sit on a stranger's back wheel on a commute. I never follow another cyclist any closer than one or two bike lengths.

GC

 

[Drago]

Two realist options. If you're legs are man enough you.can so we up an lose them. If not, slow right down until they get bored.and overtake, then return the favour.

Or just ignore them.

 

[BSRU]

I had someone draft/half wheel me last night, unfortunately for them I was riding easy so just stuck on the big ring and burnt them off.

 

[Blue]

Clear your nose at regular intervals and make sure to aim high!

 

[BigAl68]

I can put my head down and push on but I am trying to keep to a reasonable speed and not piss off the other path users. I sometimes get one in the morning and then it's a different matter and it's goodbye and off I go. If the idiot could ride I wouldn't be so pissed off and the young lad is very welcome as he then takes his turn for the last few miles. I don't know maybe I should leave a little later to avoid him but I want to get home to spend time with kids

 

[BigAl68]

I'd look down at the bike a few times then slow as if I had a mechanical then when he overtook wheelsuck the fecker muttering and grousing about nowt in particular. See how he likes it.

He can't go fast enough to be honest. He picks me up on a downhill but when he has passed I get up to him too quickly and then have to freewheel. Lol

 

[Shut Up Legs]

It mainly happens to me on my commute home, which is mostly uphill. When I find I'm being trailed by a wheelsucker I let the bike coast long enough to force him to pass; it's a stupid thing to sit on a stranger's back wheel on a commute. I never follow another cyclist any closer than one or two bike lengths.

GC

I do exactly the same. If you stop pedaling, all but the dumbest will get the hint.

 

[BigAl68]

I do exactly the same. If you stop pedaling, all but the dumbest will get the hint.

He is too thick to notice. Hey ho the joys of commuting. It should be noted he also wears sandles and will probably disappear when the weather turns

 

[raleighnut]

He can't go fast enough to be honest. He picks me up on a downhill but when he has passed I get up to him too quickly and then have to freewheel. Lol

Then tell the onanist to go forth and multiply using blunt Anglo-Saxon terminology.

 

[BigAl68]

Then tell the onanist to go forth and multiply using blunt Anglo-Saxon terminology.

That is what happened yesterday.

 

[Labradorofperception]

I used to regularly find myself some muppet's paceman on the pull up from Leeds city centre to Lawnswood roundabout. One or two of the Lawnswood chain gangers thought it would be fine to sit on the commuterman's wheel all the way up Woodhouse Lane and Otley Road to their meeting point at the school gates. Thing is they were punters themselves.

I used to repay the favour and sit on when I caught them on the Pool descent. Fat old men fall faster, Fat old men who have been biking twice their age and have DH rig at home fall even faster.

They don't like it up 'em....

 

[summerdays]

I don't enjoy the experience, I will sit behind someone for a bit if I'm not sure I'm faster than them, but only for a short while. There is one bloke who makes a habit of it, and I usually loose him on a hill when he gets bored of how slow I go. But then I catch him up again later as he sits behind the next person. I expect they tailgate on the motorway too!