Message to wheel suckers

Message to wheel suckers

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RGambo

Original Poster:

847 posts

168 months

Wednesday 20th August 2014
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Just a quick one. Please don't catch up the person who has passed you ,said hello whilst doing so and proceed to suck his wheel without making your presence known. You have NO idea what the guy 2inches in front of you is going to do and he. Doesn't know to let you know he's going to do something!
Last night riding into a headwind I over take a bloke, say hi press on. He decided to catch me up, suck my wheel, I don't know he's there, I come to my right turn, sit up and look over my shoulder to check for cars and signal, OH st, wheel sucker doesn't know what I'm doing, panics and god knows how we both dint end up on the floor.

So PLEASE, IF YOU ARE PASSED, LET THE PERSON GO OR SAY HI SO WE KNOW YOU'RE THERE!

Johnny

9,652 posts

283 months

Wednesday 20th August 2014
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Pedal harder... hehe

numtumfutunch

4,705 posts

137 months

Wednesday 20th August 2014
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its why God invented phlegm and/or potholes

"oh sorry, I didnt know you were there"

nammynake

2,587 posts

172 months

Wednesday 20th August 2014
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Really annoys me too. Went past a guy recently on a slight climb who proceeded to sit on my wheel for the next 2 miles without uttering a word. I only realised after maybe half a mile. I made a half-arsed attempt to drop him but had about 50 miles left to ride so decided to back off after a few hundred meters and resume my normal pace. He just slowed accordingly and sat there until he turned off eventually. Cock.

upsidedownmark

2,120 posts

134 months

Thursday 21st August 2014
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Counterpoint: If you're going to crawl past, or worse still accelerate to pass, then slow down again, EXPECT me to be there. I'm not going to back off just to flatter your ego...

(that said, no harm in saying hi, and I'm also going to ride in such a manner that you don't need to know I'm there, which I accept not everyone does)

Kermit power

28,634 posts

212 months

Thursday 21st August 2014
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I don't do this precisely because I want to see for myself what's coming up on the road in front of me. I'm too much of a control freak to bring myself to rely on the guy in front of me maybe or maybe not telling me about upcoming potholes.

What annoys me, therefore, is the opposite of the OP's complaint, namely people who put on a spurt to overtake, and then promptly drop back to a more sustainable effort once they've done so. If you want to go faster than me, that's fine, go faster, go past me and then keep going faster! Don't compensate for your lack of confidence in the size of your genitals by overtaking me and then forcing me to either slow down or overtake you in turn so as to not be forced to watch your hairy arse crack trying to escape your desperately threadbare old Lycra (in the case of one particular chap on Monday morning!) irked

Gizmoish

18,150 posts

208 months

Thursday 21st August 2014
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I seem to have the opposite problem - after following someone for a bit i'll move up to take a turn, look round and they're gone.

RGambo

Original Poster:

847 posts

168 months

Thursday 21st August 2014
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Kermit power said:
I don't do this precisely because I want to see for myself what's coming up on the road in front of me. I'm too much of a control freak to bring myself to rely on the guy in front of me maybe or maybe not telling me about upcoming potholes.

What annoys me, therefore, is the opposite of the OP's complaint, namely people who put on a spurt to overtake, and then promptly drop back to a more sustainable effort once they've done so. If you want to go faster than me, that's fine, go faster, go past me and then keep going faster! Don't compensate for your lack of confidence in the size of your genitals by overtaking me and then forcing me to either slow down or overtake you in turn so as to not be forced to watch your hairy arse crack trying to escape your desperately threadbare old Lycra (in the case of one particular chap on Monday morning!) irked
I agree, that annoys me too. I just get fed up with people just being ignorant and not comunicating. Yesterdays rider might have been a cat 1 racer just having a 5 min rest for all I know, I just happened to be travelling faster than him at my pace at that moment. that's the point I don't know what his ride plan is, he doesn't know mine, so why ride so bloody close with out saying something.

TwistingMyMelon

6,385 posts

204 months

Thursday 21st August 2014
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Lol just pedal faster!

I always find it odd when it happens though, more often than not I dont realise they are there until as the OP says it is too late!

I commute everyday on an MTB with slicks, aceration is quite blunt but I just get up to 18 and cruise there, I often come up behind other cyclists, sometimes we chat and share the work, had a few roadies (i'd class myself as a roadie ) who just blank me, then suck my wheel then after 200m overtake me. As soon as we then hit a slight incline or wind their pace drops down to their original pace , so I either overtake them or if the traffic is busy I get stuck behind them for a little bit . It doesn't really bother me, its just odd and annoying behavior, especially when Im rushing home to avoid the rain and I get blanked when I say just hello!

Sometimes I'll overtake again, ease off, let them get close to an overtake, tease the pace up a bit so I can hear them working harder , then accelerate off, with the chatter of my mudguards banging about! Petty but it livens up the commute into a kind of interval training

Edited by TwistingMyMelon on Thursday 21st August 09:40

AyBee

10,522 posts

201 months

Thursday 21st August 2014
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Kermit power said:
I don't do this precisely because I want to see for myself what's coming up on the road in front of me. I'm too much of a control freak to bring myself to rely on the guy in front of me maybe or maybe not telling me about upcoming potholes.

What annoys me, therefore, is the opposite of the OP's complaint, namely people who put on a spurt to overtake, and then promptly drop back to a more sustainable effort once they've done so. If you want to go faster than me, that's fine, go faster, go past me and then keep going faster! Don't compensate for your lack of confidence in the size of your genitals by overtaking me and then forcing me to either slow down or overtake you in turn so as to not be forced to watch your hairy arse crack trying to escape your desperately threadbare old Lycra (in the case of one particular chap on Monday morning!) irked
yes I'll occasionally sit beside someone who I know has done that just to run them out of energy as they huff and puff to keep up their overtaking speed hehe

Rocksteadyeddie

7,971 posts

226 months

Thursday 21st August 2014
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Never let anyone sit on your wheel, nor sit on the wheel of anyone else. Easy.

BOBTEE

1,034 posts

163 months

Thursday 21st August 2014
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My gears work fine, I know this as I use them all the time. I had a guy on my back wheel the other day, I needed to change gear... clunk ccclunk ggggrrrr chik chik bang clunk gggrrrrrr clunk WTF?! biggrin

He stayed on my wheel till a slight incline and then passed me and cleared off, git! biggrin

T1berious

2,243 posts

154 months

Thursday 21st August 2014
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Yup, I've had a guy on the commute suck my wheel with nary a by your leave, fortunately my commute is short so he was dropped.

It does beg the question, you're out there for the exercise so why sit on someones wheel?

On the other hand everyone I pass on the commute I say morning or hi to. Doesn't exactly require much in the way of effort smile

WinstonWolf

72,857 posts

238 months

Thursday 21st August 2014
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TwistingMyMelon said:
Lol just pedal faster!

I always find it odd when it happens though, more often than not I dont realise they are there until as the OP says it is too late!

I commute everyday on an MTB with slicks, aceration is quite blunt but I just get up to 18 and cruise there, I often come up behind other cyclists, sometimes we chat and share the work, had a few roadies (i'd class myself as a roadie ) who just blank me, then suck my wheel then after 200m overtake me. As soon as we then hit a slight incline or wind their pace drops down to their original pace , so I either overtake them or if the traffic is busy I get stuck behind them for a little bit . It doesn't really bother me, its just odd and annoying behavior, especially when Im rushing home to avoid the rain and I get blanked when I say just hello!

Sometimes I'll overtake again, ease off, let them get close to an overtake, tease the pace up a bit so I can hear them working harder , then accelerate off, with the chatter of my mudguards banging about! Petty but it livens up the commute into a kind of interval training

Edited by TwistingMyMelon on Thursday 21st August 09:40
Ah, 200m, that's a fen trick. If you've spent four or five miles chasing someone down you have a brief pause so that when you pass it's elegant and you aren't out of breath biggrin

MiseryStreak

2,929 posts

206 months

Thursday 21st August 2014
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I never draft nor expect to be drafted by strangers, it's exceptionally rude to invade someone's personal space. You wouldn't stick your hand in someone's back pocket to get a bit of a pull when walking along the high street, so don't do it on a bike. The one exception is when approaching a female rider with a fantastic bottom, in this situation it is generally permissible to linger for slightly longer than you might otherwise, possibly using it as a beverage break. It is frowned upon to get the camera phone out, but only if you get caught.
Secondly, regarding not returning a greeting, unbelievably rude, if I go to the trouble of saying hello you'd better respond in some small way or expect to eat hedge.

TwistingMyMelon

6,385 posts

204 months

Thursday 21st August 2014
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WinstonWolf said:
TwistingMyMelon said:
Lol just pedal faster!

I always find it odd when it happens though, more often than not I dont realise they are there until as the OP says it is too late!

I commute everyday on an MTB with slicks, aceration is quite blunt but I just get up to 18 and cruise there, I often come up behind other cyclists, sometimes we chat and share the work, had a few roadies (i'd class myself as a roadie ) who just blank me, then suck my wheel then after 200m overtake me. As soon as we then hit a slight incline or wind their pace drops down to their original pace , so I either overtake them or if the traffic is busy I get stuck behind them for a little bit . It doesn't really bother me, its just odd and annoying behavior, especially when Im rushing home to avoid the rain and I get blanked when I say just hello!

Sometimes I'll overtake again, ease off, let them get close to an overtake, tease the pace up a bit so I can hear them working harder , then accelerate off, with the chatter of my mudguards banging about! Petty but it livens up the commute into a kind of interval training

Edited by TwistingMyMelon on Thursday 21st August 09:40
Ah, 200m, that's a fen trick. If you've spent four or five miles chasing someone down you have a brief pause so that when you pass it's elegant and you aren't out of breath biggrin
LOL forgot about that, I guess I am a wheel sucker, as I sometimes take a brief pause and follow someone for a couple of seconds/20 metres so I can get my breath back before saying hi!

Nothing worse than seeing someone in the distance, slowly catching them..then you realise it is:

A bush (should have gone to specsavers)
A Jogger
A Granny on a bike


WinstonWolf

72,857 posts

238 months

Thursday 21st August 2014
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TwistingMyMelon said:
WinstonWolf said:
TwistingMyMelon said:
Lol just pedal faster!

I always find it odd when it happens though, more often than not I dont realise they are there until as the OP says it is too late!

I commute everyday on an MTB with slicks, aceration is quite blunt but I just get up to 18 and cruise there, I often come up behind other cyclists, sometimes we chat and share the work, had a few roadies (i'd class myself as a roadie ) who just blank me, then suck my wheel then after 200m overtake me. As soon as we then hit a slight incline or wind their pace drops down to their original pace , so I either overtake them or if the traffic is busy I get stuck behind them for a little bit . It doesn't really bother me, its just odd and annoying behavior, especially when Im rushing home to avoid the rain and I get blanked when I say just hello!

Sometimes I'll overtake again, ease off, let them get close to an overtake, tease the pace up a bit so I can hear them working harder , then accelerate off, with the chatter of my mudguards banging about! Petty but it livens up the commute into a kind of interval training

Edited by TwistingMyMelon on Thursday 21st August 09:40
Ah, 200m, that's a fen trick. If you've spent four or five miles chasing someone down you have a brief pause so that when you pass it's elegant and you aren't out of breath biggrin
LOL forgot about that, I guess I am a wheel sucker, as I sometimes take a brief pause and follow someone for a couple of seconds/20 metres so I can get my breath back before saying hi!

Nothing worse than seeing someone in the distance, slowly catching them..then you realise it is:

A bush (should have gone to specsavers)
A Jogger
A Granny on a bike
Or the bd turns off ten metres before you gloriously pass them punch

tobinen

9,184 posts

144 months

Thursday 21st August 2014
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MiseryStreak said:
The one exception is when approaching a female rider with a fantastic bottom, in this situation it is generally permissible to linger for slightly longer than you might otherwise, possibly using it as a beverage break. It is frowned upon to get the camera phone out, but only if you get caught.
By remarkable coincidence, last night I popped out for a 20km quicky to a pub for an ale. Unbeknownst to me, Newbury RC were out doing some TT along the B4000 (quite a good surface).

Needless to say I was passed by guys with proper TT bikes as if I was standing still. Nearly halfway in, I was passed by a female rider. I expected her to pull away but she didn't for a bit and maintained a small gap. It was a pleasant view. Eventually she left me going down a hill and that was that. The pub was only a handful of metres along and I had a lovely pale ale called 'Beat Box'. Worth trying if you like that sort of thing.

AyBee

10,522 posts

201 months

Thursday 21st August 2014
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T1berious said:
On the other hand everyone I pass on the commute I say morning or hi to. Doesn't exactly require much in the way of effort smile
I wouldn't stop talking if I did that on my commute tongue out

Rocksteadyeddie said:
Never let anyone sit on your wheel, nor sit on the wheel of anyone else. Easy.
Ever sit on the wheel of a lorry, moped or van?

Rocksteadyeddie

7,971 posts

226 months

Thursday 21st August 2014
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Rocksteadyeddie said:
Never let anyone sit on your wheel, nor sit on the wheel of anyone else. Easy.
Ever sit on the wheel of a lorry, moped or van?
I'm not sure that's the same thing. Mostly they are going too slowly in any case.