Dear Mr. Commuter

[Too Tall]

When you whoosh by runners without warning, blow snot rockets as you pass me and shamelessly draft my generous broadback silently...it worries me. Are you brain damaged or suffer some unnamed social disoder I should accomodate? Am I insensitive to your needs? Please, for once slow down (your brain) and talk to me, I'd like to introduce you to my little friend Silca Pump.

XXOO, Toots.

[GrantM]

brake check...

it's important to make sure they're working, ya know ;)

[znfdl]

Josh: Happy Monday.

[Fritz]

Here they come. The car drivers. The ones we all hate. Some are on bikes now! It will only get worse.

[DarrenCT]

how about a size 14 shoe to the top tube? can u manage the balance to do that?

[frenk]

Too many bikes on the road may be as bad as too many cars :eek:

Now that I convinced two people in the office to commute by bike the secretary is complaining for our bikes stored in an almost unused room. One was fine, three not :shot:

[roseyscot]

Josh, i see a lot of that too. i'm even more surprised when i come across a fellow commuter/rider and we are clearly riding the same route at roughly the same speed so we catch lights together repeatedly and yet that person refuses to reciprocate my greetings. i'm just saying hello, not asking you if i can have a drink of your water. :frown:

[robin3mj]

I got a guy that drafts me on the way home sometimes, and then passes me at road crossings where I have slowed to make sure the coast is clear, then I pass him and the whole thing starts over again. I’ve yelled at him enough times that I half think my next step should be to fake a clear road crossing and watch him get creamed by a bus. Lucky for him, I do have enough scruples to avoid stooping to his level.

[AntLockyer]

I got a guy that drafts me on the way home sometimes, and then passes me at road crossings where I have slowed to make sure the coast is clear, then I pass him and the whole thing starts over again.

Same thing with me all the time but different people everynight.

[Saab2000]

the secretary is complaining for our bikes stored in an almost unused room. One was fine, three not :shot:

Swiss people complain about EVERYTHING!! And the secretaries are the worst. There is nothing on earth that they don't know more than anyone else about.

BTW, why are you up writing on this forum at this hour? It's not even 0400 in Lugano. Only 1 good thing takes place in Lugano at that hour and this is not the forum for discussing that.

[Too Tall]

I got a guy that drafts me on the way home sometimes, and then passes me at road crossings where I have slowed to make sure the coast is clear, then I pass him and the whole thing starts over again. I’ve yelled at him enough times that I half think my next step should be to fake a clear road crossing and watch him get creamed by a bus. Lucky for him, I do have enough scruples to avoid stooping to his level.

I hear you. This really screws with my head. Tell me I'm wrong were I to go off base ok? It seems like a goodly number of these folks have a storyline in their heads that has never been balanced with feedback of any sort other than positive reinforcement that we are infact in a deathmatch race.

Hear me out, when that cat zings by you and you re-pass him it affirms his wacko story line (in his head alone) that you are in some sort of stupid competition. There is nobody to tell him otherwise. Saddly there is nothing you can do to change the behavior other than slow down...let it go in your best Ghandi-like fashion.

Want to hear a real funny? After Mr. "spitsinthewindandonmylegs" hocked for the second time I peddaled up to him and said "FOR GAWD SAKES will you please stop spitting on me?" Of course total denial even though he deftly pulled infront of my wheel in a universal sign of "let's ride together". WTF eh?

HAHA I'm going to attach a flashing sign to my seat pin that reads "Wanna Race, just ask". Giggle...once we've established mutual terms I'm good with whatever goes down after that...effer's.

Dang I hate mondays.

[Saab2000]

When the passing/re-passing game starts I just stop and wait for a minute to let them get far enough ahead that I don't need to deal with them.

[WadePatton]

for the anonymous wheelsuckers. tape a note to your back: "if you want to sit that close on the same route each day -- i _do_ have a tandem"

or u-turn and play chicken. (aggressive salmon)

ride with your pump in your hand...or teeth, swat random things like junebugs.

i'm nuts.

have a nice day josh!

[frenk]

LOL Saab you got it! :biggrin:
(btw it's 4 P.M. so the only thing to do is... work (or take a glance at vsalon))


TT I'm with you, I hate Mondays. Here few people dare crossing the city by bike, so the deathmatch is with scooters and motorbikes (cars are stopped in a never-ending 0-5 km/h line).

[Saab2000]

LOL Saab you got it! :biggrin:
(btw it's 4 P.M. so the only thing to do is... work (or take a glance at vsalon))

I am so disoriented with fatigue that I forgot what continent I am on.... I am only partly kidding... :omg:

Right YOU are.. It is 1600 there. Say hi to the Via Ponte Vecchio for me!

[znfdl]

Josh, i see a lot of that too. i'm even more surprised when i come across a fellow commuter/rider and we are clearly riding the same route at roughly the same speed so we catch lights together repeatedly and yet that person refuses to reciprocate my greetings. i'm just saying hello, not asking you if i can have a drink of your water. :frown:

I have been working on this one dude to say good morning for about 3 years. Every now and then I get a grunt.......

Ba-da ba-da-da-da
Ba-da ba-da-da-da
Ba-da ba-da-da-da

Monday, monday (ba-da ba-da-da-da)
So good to me (ba-da ba-da-da-da)
Monday mornin, it was all I hoped it would be
Oh monday mornin, monday mornin couldnt guarantee (ba-da ba-da-da-da)
That monday evenin you would still be here with me

Monday, monday, cant trust that day
Monday, monday, sometimes it just turns out that way
Oh monday mornin you gave me no warnin of what was to be
Oh monday, monday, how could you leave and not take me

Every other day (every other day), every other day
Every other day of the week is fine, yeah
But whenever monday comes, but whenever monday comes
A-you can find me cryin all of the time

Monday, monday (ba-da ba-da-da-da)
So good to me (ba-da ba-da-da-da)
Monday mornin, it was all I hoped it would be
Oh monday mornin, monday mornin couldnt guarantee
That monday evenin you would still be here with me

Every other day, every other day
Every other day of the week is fine, yeah
But whenever monday comes, but whenever monday comes
You can find me cryin all of the time

Monday, monday (ba-da ba-da-da-da)
So good to me (ba-da ba-da-da-da)
Monday mornin, it was all I hoped it would be
Oh monday mornin, monday mornin couldnt guarantee
That monday evenin you would still be here with me

Every other day, every other day
Every other day of the week is fine, yeah
But whenever monday comes, but whenever monday comes
You can find me cryin all of the time

Monday, monday (ba-da ba-da-da-da)
Cant trust that day (ba-da ba-da-da-da)
Monday, monday (ba-da ba-da-da-da)
It just turns out that way (ba-da ba-da-da-da)
Whoa, monday, monday, wont go away (ba-da ba-da-da-da)
Monday, monday, its here to stay (ba-da ba-da-da-da)
Oh monday, monday (ba-da ba-da-da-da)
Oh monday, monday (ba-da ba-da-da-da)

[bbillington]

funny you post this today, Josh, as I had a wheelsucker this AM who had me pretty flustered. He wasn't a commuter, though. Just some tool who sat on for about 3 miles until we got off a slight downhill and he started going backwards.... funny how that works.

[Too Tall]

funny you post this today, Josh, as I had a wheelsucker this AM who had me pretty flustered. He wasn't a commuter, though. Just some tool who sat on for about 3 miles until we got off a slight downhill and he started going backwards.... funny how that works.

A "note" is going on my bike asap. Best short note wins. Points for passive aggressive.

1. Honk if you want to race
2. I BRAKE
3. STOP NOW

Go for it.

[znfdl]

funny you post this today, Josh, as I had a wheelsucker this AM who had me pretty flustered. He wasn't a commuter, though. Just some tool who sat on for about 3 miles until we got off a slight downhill and he started going backwards.... funny how that works.

Bryan: Saw that guy with you, he was soooo close that I thought you were riding with him......

[robin3mj]

Note:
I’m not Hincapie.
You’re not Cavendish.