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- From: fraser@icphp1.epfl.ch
- Newsgroups: rec.bicycles.misc
- Subject: Re: Drafting etiquette?
- Message-ID: <4531@sicsun.epfl.ch>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 12:53:55 GMT
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- While people are on the subject of drafting etiquette-
- As a European who cycled a fair bit during two months in Boston, I
- should like to make the following remarks:
- (i) when passing serious-looking cyclists coming in the other
- direction, I always greeted them somehow, a nod of the head, (polite)
- gesture of the hand, wave etc, or shouted "Hi". I was singularly ignored
- in 95% of the cases. In Europe it's the 5% that don't acknowledge. Is there
- no "camaraderie" in the US (or just Boston)? All these cyclists saw me,
- they were out training/ridind but not head-down hell-for-leather.
- (ii) when I caught and overtook someone, again not even a grunt of
- acknowledgement. People jump on the wheel and stay there.
- So I'd be interested to have some feedback from US cyclists. Perhaps
- people are friendly off-road? I was also suprised to see that women
- cyclists were friendlier, despite the fact that they must be subject to
- a fair bit of harrassment from (male) cyclists and rivers alike.
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- Cheers,
- David Fraser.
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