why roadies why???

[TYGA]

Big difference you are out there riding as its a passion, you love it and you want to be there. Lift a finger, share the joy, spread the love...no need to wave and shout "How do you do..."  Now shopping, on the other hand....ever heard of Mall Rage? Fark I hate it, I'd rather be cramping while riding up a hill into the wind nursing a slow puncture and a wheel buckle on a corrugated gravel road with numerous bunches of yabos in their F250's racing past kicking up dust and stones than get my ass dragged through a mall.

[Edition 507]

Roadies have a certain superior image to protect. Greeting MTB riders would be an adulteration of this image. Besides, some other roadie might witness this unsavory act and expose you on pain of being ostracized by the roadie community.<?: prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />

[TNT1]

 

Do any motorbike riders great you?

 

 

"YES!!!!"

 

"DT"

 

Sweet... If a dude riding like a hooligan on a black DRZ motard waves/and or toots at you anywhere between boksburg and illovo, it was probably me

 

[Old school]

Funny how I find this to be reversed most of the times.. MTB riders not greeting the roadies.

Its simple. 

Every person on a bike is a cyclist so greet al riders as far as you notice them. Dont feel offended when someone dont greet you.

[AndreZA]

I bet you would have been greeted if you wore some lycra booties.

 

 

[Moab]

My 2c worth...  think us roadies dont greet sometimes cause we are too busy  watching the road for glass and other gunk that is left by people that could slice our tires and put an end to our ride for the day. In general I find roadies not too bad and mountain bikers not too bad. When it comes to racing however I find roadies more friendly and chatty and mtb-ers too agro.

 

[Christov]

Can not see the big issue on this. If you greet some one and do not get a reply, so what? If some one greets you, and you do not greet back, so what, it is not that you shpould know everyone out there.

I do however feel it is rather rude if you do not greet or smile at some one who greets you or smile at you.

Not a big issue, just part of how you were brought up.

Goeie maniere en vriendelikheid, soos my ouma sou s?, kos niks.

[Daxiet]

I am an MTB rider and at first when occasionally hitting the tar in Muldersdrift on my MTB I took excepetion to the evil roadies who just never greeted. The stats mentioned right in the first post are pretty accurate. However as time went by I realised that if you have to greet everyone you pass on a busy day in Muldersdrift your legs wouldn't be the tired component on your body after a long ride, but rather your poor right arm.

I will always greet the stray MTB rider or if on an isolated road the stray roadie. But it does get a bit much greating a hundered riders on a day.

 

If however greeted I will always try return the greeting.

 

I think in general the brotherhood feeling comes in the MTB community only.

Daxiet2008-12-04 02:31:48

[Velouria]

 

i ride a total of 40 km's to work and back on my mtb every day and this is the outcome of friendly greetings along the way:

 

mtb: 100%

 

roadies: 20%

 

WHY????

It is easily explained by the invisibility field all MTBs come standardly equipped with. Being exposed to the field allows you to see other MTBers that are currently cloaked. Once exposed, you will always be able to see other MTBers, even when not riding a MTB.

 

Interestingly enough - if a roadie and a MTB were to ride side by side, the invisibility field would engulf the roadie, and he would be invisible to his fellow roadies as long as he rides near the MTBer.

 

This explains why they don't wave - they just didn't see you.

 

From your research, I think we can conclude that only 20% of roadies also own a MTB.

 

[Francois]

 

i ride a total of 40 km's to work and back on my mtb every day and this is the outcome of friendly greetings along the way:

 

mtb: 100%

 

roadies: 20%

 

WHY????

It is easily explained by the invisibility field all MTBs come standardly equipped with. Being exposed to the field allows you to see other MTBers that are currently cloaked. Once exposed' date=' you will always be able to see other MTBers, even when not riding a MTB.

 

Interestingly enough - if a roadie and a MTB were to ride side by side, the invisibility field would engulf the roadie, and he would be invisible to his fellow roadies as long as he rides near the MTBer.

 

This explains why they don't wave - they just didn't see you.

 

From your research, I think we can conclude that only 20% of roadies also own a MTB.

[/quote']

 

He he, nou praat jy k@k, but I do love your explanation. Keep it up

 

[Slave]

I agree with you Christov. It doesn't cost anyone anything to be polite and friendly.

 

I do think though that a lot of the world's woes are created because we are not friendly enough. We have become far too self absorbed and selfish to give a dam about others and this loss of respect creates many problems.

 

Not saying we have to all be big buddies and live in each others pockets, but hell, let's at leat be civil to one another.

 

About a year ago, I got a puncture which I repaired and then got another very soon after that. While repairing it, my pump broke and I was pushing the bike home. Some roadie dudes saw my problem and went out of their way to come across the road and find out what the problem was. Gave me a new tube and pumped the wheel for me. That was more friendliness than anyone can ask for and made a huge impact on me.

 

Since then, I have replaced the broken pump, got a spare on the bike and even have one of those CO2 inflators with spare bombs.

 

Now as to that lunatic at the traffic light with a gun in his hand, just waiting for his next hi-jacking victim, well, he's just a totally different ball-of-wax and he should be avoided at all costs, unless you can get in a few really decent liberty punches and deck him.

 

Also agree that taking offence at not being greeted in return is a bit on the "off the spectrum" side of things.  In my experience roadies are not rude. They are helpful and friendly lot and if the dudes didn't greet you back, probably, they didn't see you and if they did see you, tough luck matie. Get over it and get on wth it. Some people are just like that.

 

[pastapouch]

I usually wave with the back of my hand, incase the other rider doesn't return it, I quikly change it to a middle finger salute.

[Gary Rabie]

I wonder if all of you who get so bent out of shape about not being greeted, greet the garden boys, school kids and workers etc riding their bikes when you pass them, or they pass you. If not, why? I am sure you will say you do so as not to be seen to be a hipocryte.

 

I wonder where this habit of greeting started? It definatley was not around when I started riding in the 80's. Do you greet other drivers when in your car, or only those driving the same car as you? Makes no sense to greet on your bike and not in your car, what's the difference? Oh so polite on your bikes but maybe a frothing animal behind the wheel? 

 

These greeting topics always crack me up. I can just imagine the indignation, "How very dare that roadie/MTB/garden boy/school kid not greet me!!!" HA HA

[amateur]

I also think people are to sensitve on this topic,

 

I don't think that roadies or mtb'ers are going out of their way not to greet you.

 

If someone passes me on the same side of the road or I pass them yes I greet and/or they greet, doesn't matter what kind of bike they are on, because it's easy I don't have to move my hands or scream as they can hear me ok, but if someone is on the opposite side of the road it is sometimes unsafe to take your hands off the bars, so you see them but you can't greet, as you are about to swerve for a pot-hole or something. I try to still nod my head but they might not see it and think I'm being rude and not greeting, or they are doing that to me and I think they are not greeting, so what I'd rather have them not greet me and not crash.

 

I honestly think poeple make this big thing of this mtb vs road thing, ag get over it, we don't hate each other because of the bike you ride, crap man, we are all cyclists.

 

[TNT1]

 

' date=' ag get over it, we don't hate each other because of the bike you ride,

 

[/quote']

  You don't ride on the east much do you?

 

[Slave]

 Aint that the truth Gary. I'm sure most of us only greet other cyclists who are obviously serious or semi-serious cyclists.

 

For those who don;t know the diffs. We only greet those who are wearing cycling kit.

 

I, on the other hand take a certain amount of egotistical satisfaction out of passing the commuting worker at as great a speed as possible and greet him as I fly past. But I don't wave to the "worker / commuters on the other side of the road going in the opposite direction, which is how we usually greet one another (or not).

 

and Yeah, we all get into our cars after a long ride and get really agro on all that adrenaline we just got while out on the bike.

 

Talk about Jeckle and Hyde.