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I'm very sorry to says but you're aboustely right, it is indeed our ego and most definitely the fact you're a woman.
I recall having similar train of though a couple of years ago, for some reason when a man overtook me, I think "fair play, he look pretty on form and work hard to get this fast".
But when a women overtook me, subconsciously I think "a girl overtook me? I'm that slow? I can't have that!", mainly because I was raise being taught that women are inherently weaker than the men, and if they overtook you, it mean you're not even fit enough to breathe, even if it's Laura Trott!
I no longer have that subconscious though anymore, and I have a better riding relationship with my girlfriend (which I never realised it was an issues in the past), I acknowledged she's better at me in certain discipline, I can barely keep up with her on descent and as a resulted crashed badly!
So yes, it's our ego that got the best of us thinking that train of thought, I can only apologise for that and hope that there'll be less in the future.
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Right. Commence rant.
I have had enough of men on geared bikes overtaking me in dangerous positions, like with pedestrians coming towards us on an access road (the marshes end of Coppermill Lane) or on the rather pave-esque climb of MacKenzie Road, N7, and then not having the legs to get all the way past me and sitting there, slightly ahead and to my right, waiting for me to meekly let them get in front of me slowing me down. Regardless of what’s behind us or otherwise going on with the traffic. Why do they do this? Because I'm a woman? Because I'm riding a fixed gear bike? Because they haz small penis? Because their massively inflated homo erectus egos demand it?
I do not care. I only wish to live. Cycle training, every damn last one of them.
Rant over. I feel much better now, thank you.