odd behaviour...am i missing something

saunaboy
saunaboy Posts: 116
edited November 2010 in Road beginners
I dismissed this as someone just being a bit wierd but maybe I'm missing something...

Out on a ride with a mate & about 2 miles in, this fella screams past on a bike. Big lad, didn't look very fit but had a posh carbon weave bike. About 1/2 mile on, he's pulled up at a bus stop. When we pass, he starts up again behind us, follows my mate's wheel for about a mile, then goes past him, and wedges himself between my back wheel & my mate.

He then stays there for about 400m, then screams off past me again.

Up the road, he's turned off left at a junction. We go right. He turns arouns and belts back up to get back on my mate's wheel for another mile. We slow down a bit & he's still there. This goes on for about aother half a mile until he belts off again and stops.

(can I just add he's got an ipod in or whatever, and shades on, and makes no effort to return the nods/acknowledgements from us).

We go past again & he tries to go past once more but can't do it. Stops & that's the last of it.

Wouldn't have minded another one on the ride at all if 1) they communicated, or maybe asked if they could ride or 2) did some work at the front it was blowing a bloody gale.

Just thought I'd share that see if anyone has any thoughts.

Comments

  • Zachariah
    Zachariah Posts: 782
    I suspect (and I could be wrong) that what you have encountered there, is an idiot.
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    You should have Cinzano'd him.
  • JackPozzi
    JackPozzi Posts: 1,191
    I have in the past probably appeared to be acting oddly when I've been doing intervals, but that would normally see me go flying past someone then rest and they would repass again. I generally try to splutter "sorry, intervals" or something as I go past them though!

    Can't see any reason for what you describe though, sounds very odd
  • u05harrisb
    u05harrisb Posts: 531
    quite odd that, funny at the same time :D
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    JackPozzi wrote:
    I have in the past probably appeared to be acting oddly when I've been doing intervals, but that would normally see me go flying past someone then rest and they would repass again. I generally try to splutter "sorry, intervals" or something as I go past them though!

    Can't see any reason for what you describe though, sounds very odd

    I do the same if I'm doing intervals big shout/apology explaining myself as I pass/get passed!
  • saunaboy
    saunaboy Posts: 116
    nice to know there's nothing I missed. strange lad. def wasn't intervals, he gave that away when we went right at the junction & he was almost doing trackstands looking back to see where we were. Once he clocked we'd not gone the same way as him he was right back after us.

    As I said, just a bit of a shame. If he'd just hinted that he'd got nothing better on & would like to join we'd have thought nothing of it.

    cheers for replies.
  • Tom BB
    Tom BB Posts: 1,001
    Sounds very odd!......chuck a mini pump through his front wheel next time? :twisted:




    Joking of course!
  • Supergoose
    Supergoose Posts: 1,089
    NapoleonD wrote:
    You should have Cinzano'd him.

    LOL! Mama, Mama…The Italians are coming!!

    OP, there are some real oddballs about. Personally I would have 'brake tested ' the chap, it is a reliable method. One Ive seen work many times when closely followed by an unwanted passenger. 8)
    Rock 'n' Roule
  • ratsbeyfus
    ratsbeyfus Posts: 2,841
    Did he have bananas strapped to his bike?

    I had one of them red bikes but I don't any more. Sad face.

    @ratsbey
  • ShutUpLegs
    ShutUpLegs Posts: 3,522
    Supergoose wrote:
    NapoleonD wrote:
    You should have Cinzano'd him.

    LOL! Mama, Mama…The Italians are coming!!

    OP, there are some real oddballs about. Personally I would have 'brake tested ' the chap, it is a reliable method. One Ive seen work many times when closely followed by an unwanted passenger. 8)

    There is a popular cycle path near me, these oddballs hang about at the exits and entrances waiting for someone to follow/ annoy/ p*** off. I find not letting them overtake is helpful and they soon give up.
  • Bozman
    Bozman Posts: 2,518
    Maybe he just wants to be loved, it could be a dodgy mating ritual.
  • Airwave
    Airwave Posts: 483
    Are you sure one of you was'nt trailing a bit elastic from your jesrey or bibs.It may have been that he was trying to get away from you but could'nt :lol:
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  • Buckled_Rims
    Buckled_Rims Posts: 1,648
    Tom BB wrote:
    Sounds very odd!......chuck a mini pump through his front wheel next time? :twisted:

    That "myth" was busted on Mythbusters. Although I admit it was a motorcycle and a scaffold pole. :wink:
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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    He hasn't got a ponytail and funny handlebars has he ?
  • Smokin Joe
    Smokin Joe Posts: 2,706
    Perhaps it was some sort of mating ritual?

    You missed your chance there lad.
  • Monty Dog
    Monty Dog Posts: 20,614
    Been out a training rides - see a rider coming the other way but blanks my wave / greeting - then turns around in road obviously intent on trying to catch me, but I clock them trying to chase me down - then often seen becoming a smaller dot on the horizon. I'll happy share effort on a ride but I expect a bit of acknowledgement - blank looks / sitting on / sneers tend to be given short thrift - drop back on an incline, stick it in big ring and "see ya bud!" Besides it's good threshold training..
    Make mine an Italian, with Campagnolo on the side..

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