The Ten Yard stare (fixed)

Yep. I get this all the time on Surrey's lanes too!!

That's 40 seconds of my life I'm never gonna get back.

i get the impression that the work block on youtube might actually be a blessing today...

From bicycles to dogwank in just 14 comments. Shurely this must be a record for most rapid and egregious off-topicness?

i dont nod i just stare at the bike and smile as it whizzes past

tink i beat hippy hands down this time... 14posts... MUAHHAHAHAAHAHHAAA

edmundane tink i beat hippy hands down this time... 14posts... MUAHHAHAHAAHAHHAAA
whats with this mad competition for posts surely if you want to outpost someone just put one word in each post

riding around the city i'll nod
on a road ride i'll lift one hand up off the bars

I think he was talking about the tone dropping quicker than a bride's nighty.

winston The oddest phenomenon about the recent boom in fixed wheel riding.....
When I'm pootling around London on my trusted Veto, I often come across this, usually from a rider coming in the opposite direction...a fellow fixed rider staring at you in a "who are you, what are you riding" way and hardly ever with a friendly nod.....you know when two toddlers come across each other for the first time and then just stop dead and stare at each other for about a minute???.....that's what it looks like, has anyone else experienced this?

This type of question seems to pop up all the time on bike forums. Not just fixed riders, anyone.
In Melbourne where there's bugger-all cyclists out my way I'd nod and say g'day to everyone coz you know they're keen.
In London where there's 200 other bikes I'm just not going to say hi to them all. If I notice something odd (most of you fixers are odd looking and smell funny) then I might say something. Usually though, I'm too busy swearing at defenceless old ladies and small children to bother about 'greetings'. ;)

tried saying hi to people and commenting on bikes to begin with but mostly just got blank looks or those "are you stupid" stares back so i stopped. Am happy to greet people back, but being looked at like i was something they just trod on i can live without.

It's pretty common practice over here to give a nod to people out on a cycle, the odd 'hello' or 'howeya' is also much appreciated.

Over where?

here

Where?

over there

Here?

no there

They're there?

No their there is not here it's there.

Which now mean they're are here

on the stair, a little mouse with clogs on....

...oh there

[cite] hippy:
In Melbourne where there's bugger-all cyclists out my way I'd nod and say g'day to everyone coz you know they're keen.
In London where there's 200 other bikes I'm just not going to say hi to them all.

that reminds me of this:

If you're gonna take the time to gawp and "check someone out" you may as well be friendly with it, what's more important who I am or whether I've got an Aerospok?