snotty roadies

everogere

Couldnt agree with you more. I ride a road bike during summer and an MTB during the winter months ( dont mind that getting mucky ) and have found most riders give a nod or a wave. The point is, the acknowledgement of a another human being on the deserted roads and tracks of Yorkshire is purely good manners, doesnt mater if they are on an MTB a Road bike or on foot I would say.

cjw

Diogenes wrote:

cjw wrote:

Nope, I can't take roadies seriously either. I mean what's the fun in travelling on roads, full of smog, petrol fumes, bad mannered drivers, boring scenary - same old houses and pavements and blah blah blah... that I get day in day out. )

Where the hell do you live? Come and ride the Yorkshire moors, beautiful scenery, friendly people, quite roads and very few intolerant riders.

D

Essex not far from London and M25 . Roads are terrible near me.

geoff_ss

cjw wrote:

Diogenes wrote:

cjw wrote:

Nope, I can't take roadies seriously either. I mean what's the fun in travelling on roads, full of smog, petrol fumes, bad mannered drivers, boring scenary - same old houses and pavements and blah blah blah... that I get day in day out. )

Where the hell do you live? Come and ride the Yorkshire moors, beautiful scenery, friendly people, quite roads and very few intolerant riders.

D

Essex not far from London and M25 . Roads are terrible near me.

Get an OS map and study it. There's lots of quiet lanes in Essex. I rode a 400k audax from Chelmsford in 1990 on surprisingly quiet lanes. A lot of them must still be there even now. Much more recently I've ridden in Suffolk and that's lovely too. Not quite up to Derbyshire but good enough.

Geoff

cjw

Got plenty of maps. why the hell would I want to ride on lanes or roads?