NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #31/NN_1992_31.iso/spool/rec/bicycles/misc/1723

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Newsgroups: rec.bicycles.misc
Path: sparky!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!hermes.chpc.utexas.edu!ezag637
From: [e-mail] (Steve Manifold)
Subject: Re: Drafting etiquette?
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
Organization: The University of Texas System CHPC
References: <[e-mail]>
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 92 14:38:24 GMT
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In article <[e-mail]>, [e-mail] writes:
>
>  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.

Having lived in various parts of the US as well as Europe and Japan, I have
noticed that friendliness to strangers varies quite a bit from region to re-
gion.  Here in Texas I've noticed a higher frequency of greetings among
cyclists than in other places.  I wonder if the weather has something to do
with it.  The unfriendliest people (at least outwardly) I've met were in
cold, rainy climates.

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Steve Manifold                                              University of Texas
[e-mail]                           College of Engineering
[e-mail]                       Center for Electromechanics