What a miserable bunch........

[swansonj]

When I ride for leisure, I usually acknowledge other cyclists, and care not a jot whether they respond or not. On Saturday, I was out in the Surrey Hills doing the route of the Cheam and Mordern CTC Hilly Fifty (created, I believe, by our own @dellzeqq) and I seemed to get many more responses, indeed I seemed to get many more spontaneous greetings from club cyclists, despite my own obvious leisure-not-club appearance. I surmised that many of the other riders were practicing for the Prudential RideLondon thingy, which route overlaps with mine several times. Perhaps the joy of being taken into the Surrey Hills had infused them, or perhaps they couldn't conceive of anyone cycling those roads other than for an organised Sportive, assumed that I was doing it too, and greeted me on that basis.

 

[John the Monkey]

Has anyone done the "Mountain Bikers always say hello" or "People in Rapha on Carbon bikes never wave" things yet?

 

[Rickshaw Phil]

From the AA's own archives... undertaking what is now an offence




Another article describes how on their first day a new member was beingthanked by so many people for not doing anything...

It was offence back then too, but the police couldn't prosecute the patrol scouts for failing to salute one of their members.

 

[Smokin Joe]

Can we please have a national "No Waving or Nodding Day?", then we might get some peace for at least one fecking day in the year.

 

[Nigel-YZ1]

Do you wave to other motorists when you're driving a car?

Round here motorists seem to greet each other the same as dogs do. They try to stick their nose up your arse!