Rude, head shaking cyclist

antfly
antfly Posts: 3,276
edited April 2011 in The bottom bracket
I was at least a bike length behind this guy today for about 15 to 20 seconds, immediately after a junction we had both stopped at, when he looked around. I smiled and nodded and he just shook his head. Well, first of all rude, very rude, secondly if you are trying to accuse me of wheel sucking we had only just left the traffic lights and that was the first I saw of you, so ridiculous as well. I did ask what the problem was as I passed a few seconds later but got no response. The words Aintree and Liverpool physiotherapists were on his back.
Smarter than the average bear.

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  • jibi
    jibi Posts: 857
    Wheel sucking is our god given right

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  • Ollieda
    Ollieda Posts: 1,010
    I feel bad about today, I was monging it a bit as two overtook me so i joined on the back and followed up the hill, I shot off ahead down the hill and carried on but didn't see them again.

    Obviously to me I wasn't being rude, just knackered and needed a bit of a boost but didn't get to say thanks after, to them they could easily see me as rude and just sucking their rear wheel.

    Although your guy looks like he was actively being a dick, some just are, some are misunderstood
  • brin
    brin Posts: 1,122
    Maybe he was shaking his head in resignation that he hadn't dropped you? :lol:
  • tailwindhome
    tailwindhome Posts: 19,434
    Thor?
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  • mroli
    mroli Posts: 3,622
    Mate - if that's the worst thing to happen to you today.... :lol:
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  • petemadoc
    petemadoc Posts: 2,331
    Was it Cancellara by any chance?

    He seemed to be getting pissed with people sucking his wheel today
  • AndyRubio
    AndyRubio Posts: 880
    Some people are cocks some of the time, don't waste your energy on worrying about his being a dick.
    My hour on the plinth
  • skyd0g
    skyd0g Posts: 2,540
    maybe he was just breathless after a hard effort (by his early season standard as possibly a newbie out on his first ride fully kitted out) and was just trying to communicate 'I'm shagged' ....?

    ...not trying to defend him, just sayin'...

    ...then again, he may just have been an @rse. :wink:
    Cycling weakly
  • bails87
    bails87 Posts: 12,998
    He shook his head?

    Do you need counselling? You go to the therapist while I round up a posse.
    MTB/CX

    "As I said last time, it won't happen again."
  • inkyfingers
    inkyfingers Posts: 4,400
    I had a bloke suck my wheel for a few miles yesterday into a strong headwind, I did my best to drop him but couldn't...actually turned into quite a hard session. When we got to a junction and went seperate ways I was ready to make a sarcastic comment but he got in before me, thanking me for a much harder workout than he would have got on his own so fair play to him. I suppose we both did well out of it in the end!
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  • antfly
    antfly Posts: 3,276
    bails87 wrote:
    He shook his head?

    Do you need counselling? You go to the therapist while I round up a posse.

    Thanks but therapy probably won't be necessary, I think I will get over it, given time.
    Smarter than the average bear.
  • durrin
    durrin Posts: 123
    I can understand if people don't want others wheel-sucking, especially if they're not used to riding so close to someone else. It probably makes them nervous. I don't like to wheel-suck in areas where it is likely one will have to maneuver quickly, and I don't like others doing it either.

    Personally, if I want someone to not sit on my wheel, I either wave them past, try to ride them off my wheel, or slow down.
  • Gypsum_Fantastic
    Gypsum_Fantastic Posts: 172
    durrin wrote:
    Personally, if I want someone to not sit on my wheel, I either wave them past, try to ride them off my wheel, or slow down.

    Failing that flatulence or snot rockets usually do the trick :roll:
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,462
    AndyRubio wrote:
    Some people are cocks some of the time,

    And the rest are cocks all the time :wink:
  • turnerjohn
    turnerjohn Posts: 1,069
    durrin wrote:
    I can understand if people don't want others wheel-sucking, especially if they're not used to riding so close to someone else. It probably makes them nervous. I don't like to wheel-suck in areas where it is likely one will have to maneuver quickly, and I don't like others doing it either.

    Personally, if I want someone to not sit on my wheel, I either wave them past, try to ride them off my wheel, or slow down.

    +1 exactly ! or just man up and rince them :D
  • millimole
    millimole Posts: 53
    If anyone is able to stay on my wheel then they are much less fit than I am, and bloomin' good luck to them! If I were ever able to sit on anyone else's wheel they they aren't trying hard enough!
  • plowmar
    plowmar Posts: 1,032
    Sitting on some ones wheel ?, don't you get sore? :wink:
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    Wheel-suckah.

    Shame. On. You.

    But you can come to Cycle-confession.

    You can come on here and try to absolve yourself of this crime, we ride so we can see through you. 10,000 hail mary's and 4 our fathers and a £200 donation to my upgrade fund should do the trick if you want to sleep at night. :wink:
  • antfly
    antfly Posts: 3,276
    I wouldn't mind if I was wheel sucking, I would crawl up a rocky hill on my hands and knees and donate to the upgrade fund, but I wasn't, honest. I was just waiting to see how fast he was. I would hate to overtake only to be passed a few seconds later, the ultimate humiliation ! This guy was just an unfriendly, reactionary head shaker and he was far too slow anyway. I'm almost over it now.
    Smarter than the average bear.
  • FocusZing
    FocusZing Posts: 4,373
    antfly wrote:
    I was at least a bike length behind this guy today for about 15 to 20 seconds, immediately after a junction we had both stopped at, when he looked around. I smiled and nodded and he just shook his head. Well, first of all rude, very rude, secondly if you are trying to accuse me of wheel sucking we had only just left the traffic lights and that was the first I saw of you, so ridiculous as well. I did ask what the problem was as I passed a few seconds later but got no response. The words Aintree and Liverpool physiotherapists were on his back.

    It doesn't matter what I mentally pacify myself with. It always bloody angers me when people are pig ignorant. I spend the next 5 minutes trying to figure out what the hell I did wrong, until it gets interrupted by another cyclist with a decent personality.

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