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Easy- just cough really loudly and clear your throat as you come up to overtake. The more sensitive guys are less likely to take this personally, unless you discharge from your nostrils as you go past. No that is not going to work... what is wrong with keeping left if you are slower and asking to pass right? This seems plain logical to me. I suppose its they way you ask as well... If someone wants to chase up a hill let him/her? I still do not understand why the guys asking to pass are a$$holes? Even if they did do so boisterously, if you're in a rhythm climbing a hill you don't want to slow down and get going again for every guy plodding up on the far right so you make sure they know you would like to pass? Is it an ego thing? Exakerly Can't understand why its the guys passing who are aholes. Problem would not be there if the aholes who are wandering about in the road kept left.Common sense.Keep frigging left!!!! Allow me to clarify, it was around 10 in the morning - there was PLENTY space. Keeping left if you are slower is the right thing to do and asking people in the front to hold their line or to keep left is a common cycling practice that I use myself. Incidently, I was about a meter and a half from the left wall. Over the sound of fellow cyclists puffing and some muted conversation here and there, I could here these clowns coming up from about 50 meters back. It souded as if they were hired by some celeb to verbally clear the road ahead because of his late start or something, which is fine I guess. But when we caught up later, I wished I had one of those hand held blow horns or at the least a vuvuzela to let rip just as we came on on their backs...Does this make sense?

Yes, and there is a fine line between guys who think they own the road and stupidity.... When we were half way up on chappies on the 14th, these two guys came thundering through on the right shouting: "HOLD YOUR LINE!!!, PASSING ON THE RIGHT!!!, STAY LEFT PLEASE!!!" Everybody else was rather quiet and I could sense that it pissed off more people than just me. Lo and behold, we all passed the guys a third of the way up suikerbossie....mmmm

Cool storie met n happy ending - en die SS Hi-Mod Team kleure sou in elkgeval my keuse gewees het as ek dit in die eerste plek kon bekostig. GENIET HAAR!!!!

Chris, please post the specials man!?

Mr. Rock - Old school rocks, I have an old (but in PERFECT WORKING ORDER) 1997 R400 (metallic green/grey) standing in my office. Did a 3:24 Argus on it with 7Sp RSX as support - the goog 'ol days. The frame is so ahead of its time that I seriously comprehended fitting a 2nd hand 10spd Ultegra, doing a new paint job, and taking on the competition again on it... RESPECT. PS< Saw the most beautiful virgin matt black carbon Synapse with gloss decalls the other day in the local shop in for a service. Cannondale will always be a classy ride!

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At least I got anonymous right - yay!

I am guilty as sin.

Dirt*Girl, well done then!! I missed it also. The irony is that I was at my first hubaholics anonymous meeting, hows that for some beatiful irony?

Response would be :- Size and pic of bike preferably on a couch. Yes, yes Scotty, middelpen. u catch my drift?

Not to step on toes here but I find it strange that the posts from the ROOKIE clan makes that little bit more sense than some of our "more experienced" hubbers. Why is that? I sommer know I'm going to open a can of worms with this.. Close that can of worms! You have to be an ultimate Hubber to do that or ask one of us to do it for you. Point taken If you push it you can get those next 15 posts in and start a new thread about Domestiques. word

africanmtbkid: Remember, I have been on the receiving end of this stick in a couple of posts - no point in getting upset. This is all in the name of healty hubbing i guess. I will show respect where I feel it is granted to do so.

Not to step on toes here but I find it strange that the posts from the ROOKIE clan makes that little bit more sense than some of our "more experienced" hubbers. Why is that? I sommer know I'm going to open a can of worms with this.. Close that can of worms! You have to be an ultimate Hubber to do that or ask one of us to do it for you. Point taken

Just some food for thought.. Lets say I post two for sale adds tomorrow: 1)2009 Bianchi 928HOC with campy Super Record - R35000 2)2009 Spez S-Works Epic carbon disk with XTR and F/S e100 fork - R32000 What would the reponse be like? Have a nice weekend Off to the local pub with the missus after a windy but good ride.