Misreable and ignorant cyclist...

[1duck]

I ride both mtb and road, but neither very quickly so i just try keep as left as possible to let people pass...seems pretty logical.

 

[1duck]

whoops double post thanks to the laggy internet.

 

[medoramas]

Moved to general and OT.

Can I ask what you thought you'd achieve by cycling up the middle and braking? You must be a hoot in a car.

I didn't get right in the middle and I did it because the closer I was getting to them, the wider apart they were going, simply just to not let me through. The reason I braked was to not get right in between them. Not my fault I was faster...
Don't worry, it was in a sensibility limits

And I'm not a race driver at all if it comes to my behaviour in a car

 

[hamster]

expensive carbon road bike + team kit = "I'M GOING FOR A BIKE RIDE AND IT IS INCREDIBLY IMPORTANT"

Yep, they put me off doing sportives after a couple of encounters!

 

[Carge]

expensive carbon road bike + team kit = "I'M GOING FOR A BIKE RIDE AND IT IS INCREDIBLY IMPORTANT"

Yep, they put me off doing sportives after a couple of encounters!

Tosh!
I have an expensive carbon road bike - and team kit - and amazingly I find I have the same manners on the road bike as I do on the mountain bike.

Maybe it's the rider - and not the bike. I've encountered as many to55ers on MTB as road bikes over the years

 

[sylus]

This sounds like the similar situation on motorcycles where you have a few groups

harley riders...mostly ignorant and look down on others

power rangers in their leather one pieces and jap rocket for the summer...don't care about others

all year round riders..tend to look like stig of the dump as the kit see's all year round riding and views others as bikers too

scooter riders..everyone hates them

 

[hamster]

expensive carbon road bike + team kit = "I'M GOING FOR A BIKE RIDE AND IT IS INCREDIBLY IMPORTANT"

Yep, they put me off doing sportives after a couple of encounters!

Tosh!
I have an expensive carbon road bike - and team kit - and amazingly I find I have the same manners on the road bike as I do on the mountain bike.

Maybe it's the rider - and not the bike. I've encountered as many to55ers on MTB as road bikes over the years

As I said in my original post, morons is morons.

Having got a shedload of abuse on a couple of sportives for stopping at give way lines on blind junctions, I've decided to leave it to the wannabes. There are good guys who do them who can hold a line and ride in a bunch, but plenty who can't and are just asking to start a pileup.

If they want to race, they should get a licence and do it properly.

At the same time you gets the guys on monster full-sus rigs riding forestry commission tracks...slowly.

 

[highlandsflyer]

I would have steamed past them on my S/S Fat Bike with the full pannier set and trailer, then thrown some tacs into their path to prevent them catching me.

How I would have laughed, sat in the pub by the log fire imagining them walking home. All the way home the fifty miles they were probably pacing for.

 

[FMJ]

I wave to all the riders I cross paths with, even the ones dresses up like tubes of toothpaste. If they do the nose in the air thing, it's simply a matter of flipping the hand aroud 180 deg. so the back is facing outward and retracting 4 of the 5 fingers. 10 seconds later it's forgotten and I'm back to enjoying myself. Getting worked up over it is rather pointless, IMO,

 

[gerryattrick]

So the OP passed a couple of roadies. They couldn't have been that good because a good roadie will beat an equal mtb'er anytime on the road on their usual bikes, and vice versa on an XC route.

I've never got this them and us crap, whichever discipline it comes from.