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• #27
nah i draft ma3k all the time! saves me using my energy! eat less ..profit!
That is why you are so fat.
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• #28
That is why you are so fat.
more of me to love
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• #29
alot more.
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• #30
to draft behind.
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• #31
JS you pricks?
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• #32
ha...maybe ;)
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• #33
I only draft vehicles, or occasionally me and friends will take it in turn slipstreaming each other, but I never bother to draft strangers, and if they try and draft me....well THEN ITS ONNNNNNNNNN!
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• #34
yeah yeah, get out and shred.............
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• #35
stab it and steer baby.............
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• #36
He gets out of his saddle and honks bit
Honks? as in bell, or smell?
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• #37
I'm like and old horse in the traces when I get behind another wheel... its just a reflex to draft and I gage their experience by their reaction... if its "Oi get off! Do your own work! I've got a long way to go!". then we know they are complete idiots/jerks. If its a quick glance behind and no reaction then we know they have experience and could care less what you are doing.
Buses, trucks, cars all are fair game - engine sounds, looking under the rear axle for pot holes, staying to one side with the head tilted to see around all make for 35 years of fun with out any mishaps - so far!
Good post, stay safe, keep the rubber down.
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• #38
I get behind another wheel... its just a reflex to draft and I gage their experience by their reaction... if its "Oi get off! Do your own work! I've got a long way to go!". then we know they are complete idiots/jerks. If its a quick glance behind and no reaction then we know they have experience and could care less what you are doing.
Lies.
I don't want to have to concern myself with some idiot on my ass, how do I know his skill level if I have never ridden with him before?
Best tactic for ridding yourself of leaches is to swipe the tail out.
I had some wannabe Armstrong try that with me up Kingsway one day, locked up and slid to the side and he got all red in the face and started swearing.
His unpreparedness/inattention puts me at risk if something serious should impede me.For consenting adults only, not lazy bum-lovers.
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• #39
+1
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• #40
a) It irritates the fuck out of me (irrationally, I know) when some one wheel-sucks, so I give them a little skid.
b) The nodder in the OP sounds exactly like my mate Si.
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• #41
b) The** nodder** in the OP sounds exactly like my mate Si.
:)
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• #42
Not confident enough to throw skids at wheel suckers. I just give them a sharp burst of acceleration into a pothole and roll away.
Maybe oneday I'll unweight the back and throw them an endo. That'll shit them right up.
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• #43
I draft people all the way up Holloway road, see wich hill they go up (Highgate or Archway) then blast them!
To be fair I try to take my turns on Holloway road but they object to this and think you are trying to race them (wich I knid of am) so they overtake emidiatly, ride up there quicker than they can, burn there legs out before the hill, then get left for dead by the twat on the pink bike.So it was you behind me last night then? I was wondering what was going on. Didn't think much of the fluro jacket though
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• #44
I hate being drafted as well - just puts me on edge. Getting out of the saddle and groaning while rubbing/spanking my bum usually sickens them enough to drop off.
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• #45
I hate being drafted as well - just puts me on edge. Getting out of the saddle and groaning while rubbing/spanking my bum usually sickens them enough to drop off.
If you've properly tynan'd your saddle, you shouldn't even need to do this.
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• #46
It's also good to have a saddle bag filled with nails and shards of glass. It can be deployed via a tug on the zip and at a moments notice.
Working on 'Slick Shoes' Sidi's atm
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• #47
What is there about drafting that makes the front guy care??? If the rear rider overlaps wheels he goes down faster than pig shite and the front hardly feels it - so what do you care?? OK so the idiot ploughs into you if you do an emergency stop but your good enough to avoid that situation - arn't you?
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• #48
You moron.
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• #49
The very nature of an emergency stop is that the situation is unavoidable. Kids running out in the road, cars pulling out suddenly from a side road because they didn't see you etc. You can't predict everything out there.
Besides, if the overlap happens when the guy behind starts going faster than you, you sure as hell will feel it, a lot.
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• #50
bicycle cottaging?
was thinking the same :)
also its fun singing a song going up a climb, (something like, sex and drugs and rock and roll by the late Great Ian Dury) when the drafter behind you is maxing out to keep up and their heart is just about to jump out of their throat, ha-brutalism