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I think it's the pack mentality, rather than all members of clubs being dicks.
To a degree I agree, but doesn't pack mentality tend to disappear when the rest of the pack disappears?
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It's like getting ready to go out, or cycling on roads after singletrack, the emotions leak into the moments before joining the pack and last for a while after leaving it (cf all the crashes that happen just after lfgss group rides! :)
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But then confirmation bias kicks in. You see a London Dynamo cyclist riding like a dick, you don't think "Asshole", you think "London Dynamo are assholes". You see a London Dynamo cyclist riding responsibly and considerately...
You mark it in your diary as a really special day.
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I was going to make a comment about a particular club that go round richmond park... Then realised there were few clubs that don't act like dicks when in a big enough group.
I think it's the pack mentality, rather than all members of clubs being dicks.
Back to the calling out, riding home through Richmond park someone clearly deciding to ride on the right for no reason I could tell looking petrified when he realised that I wasn't slowing down or moving from the left...
For anyone who overtakes on the narrow path that goes through the middle of the park, I only ride the polo bike and mtb bike through there and have no qualms crashing headfirst into someone while I'm on either of those bikes.
#iprobablyneedtobecalledoutandirealisethat