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Cycling etiquette, meeting other cyclists

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  • #92
    dastardly00
    Registered Users Posts: 13,300 ✭✭✭✭dastardly00


    Rambling Man wrote: »
    Not immediately relevant. But not long after I started cycling, I came in one day and Rambling Woman asked me if there were many cyclists out.

    I told her "loads, but almost all of them on the other side of the road" She sat me down and after going through a few diagrams I realised I'd had a Dougal moment.

    I still give that as an answer if someone asks me if I saw many cyclists out on my spin..... "I saw loads, but they were all going in the opposite direction" :D


  • #93
    Wishbone Ash
    Registered Users Posts: 24,948 ✭✭✭✭Wishbone Ash


    It's a bit odd when in boards.ie kit, and you meet another in similar boards.ie attire and they don't respond to a nod/wave. :confused:


  • #94
    Kalman
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 233 ✭✭Kalman


    Schecter01 wrote: »
    This may seem a daft question, but what is the etiquette when a cycling alone and you cross paths with a fellow cyclist.
    My reason for asking is a really sound cyclist pulled pulled up alongside me today and started chatting away asking me how my ride was going etc, was a grand bit of Then he went his way and I went mine. Felt really good to have that, wouldn't happen when walking!

    Would it be common place to slide up along a fellow chap on his evening spin and engage in chat, or a quick nod suffice? I don't want to come across a weirdo sponging on someone's spin but I don't want to be a rude tit either, what are the "unwritten rules " of cycling etiquette??


    {Each a glance and gone forever} >>>>>from A Railway Carriage [R.L Stevenson

    "Only a signal shown and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life we pass and speak one another, Only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.
    {Longfellow, Tales of a Wayside Inn} >>>>>Like Ships In The Night.


  • #95
    Harrybelafonte
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,450 ✭✭✭Harrybelafonte


    Wishbone Ash wrote: »
    It's a bit odd when in boards.ie kit, and you meet another in similar boards.ie attire and they don't respond to a nod/wave. :confused:

    I've had people in my own club kit blank me.


  • #96
    Bloggsie
    Registered Users Posts: 1,054 ✭✭✭Bloggsie


    gadetra wrote: »
    I get that an awful lot. I thought it maybe cos they don't want to be 'beaten' by a woman. Even though I'm out doing my own thing, and presumably they are too. I'll never understand that. I had one in particular tell me, after the had done what you describe above to me when I was on my elderly commuter (or superbike to give him his full due!) from UCD to Leeson Street/canal, "You can beat all the boys if you had a bike like mine". Err, I was just cycling into town, completely minding my own business. He had a hole in the árse of his shorts too. that was unpleasant to say the least!
    a hole in the arse, that there is enough reason to pass the semi flasher by!


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  • #97
    eeeee
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 6,818 Mod ✭✭✭✭eeeee


    Harrybelafonte wrote: »
    I've had people in my own club kit blank me.

    :eek:

    But it's the best club in the country! :D



    My instinctual greeting is actually a solitary finger lifted off the bars. I forget it isn't as obvious on a bike and go to the nod/smile/wave after, by which time other cyclist has mostly gone by. I suppose it looks like a slow-mo-almost greeting!


  • #98
    eeeee
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 6,818 Mod ✭✭✭✭eeeee


    Bloggsie wrote: »
    a hole in the arse, that there is enough reason to pass the semi flasher by!

    Aye true, but I was going in for the day and night and I didn't want to sweat in my going-out clothes!


  • #99
    CramCycle
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 24,413 Mod ✭✭✭✭CramCycle


    MugMugs wrote: »
    Be careful or you'll dig up a Roadie -vs- MTBer argument :D

    We're all friends on two wheels, even those who go on two wheels and jump of to play in the mud (CXers) or those who fall off to play in the mud (MTBers), it's when they put on the swimsuit that their personality changes.

    Going gravel riding in the US myself in a few weeks (for work), as far as I can tell it is basically CX on dry, loose ground, rather than in mud.


  • #100
    CramCycle
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 24,413 Mod ✭✭✭✭CramCycle


    gadetra wrote: »
    My instinctual greeting is actually a solitary finger lifted off the bars.

    The true sign of a culchie, learned from their parents doing the same to one and all while driving or walking, even if they don't know them, just in case, the other party knows them.


  • #101
    eeeee
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 6,818 Mod ✭✭✭✭eeeee


    CramCycle wrote: »
    The true sign of a culchie, learned from their parents doing the same to one and all while driving or walking, even if they don't know them, just in case, the other party knows them.

    Ya might know of them :pac:

    Or in my case, since I'm out of home a good while now, they know me but I don't know them. So it's an insurance finger wave!

    I actually think it could make it as the official bike greeting. You don't have to take your hands off the bars, but is yet fully functional as a gesture. I am bringing it in. That's my excuse. A one woman mission for cultural change (not because I forget to do anything else at all :) ).


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  • #102
    NamelessPhil
    Registered Users Posts: 1,097 ✭✭✭NamelessPhil


    I do the weird culchie head nod, you know, the sideways twist.

    I did that to a guy in a tractor last weekend on a 200km audax somewhere out in the back of nowhere near Kells and got the full wave in return. All it needed was a sheep dog in the cab and I could have been back in my childhood.


  • #103
    Wishbone Ash
    Registered Users Posts: 24,948 ✭✭✭✭Wishbone Ash


    Harrybelafonte wrote: »
    I've had people in my own club kit blank me.
    Same here (...and as recently as yesterday!)
    CramCycle wrote: »
    The true sign of a culchie, learned from their parents doing the same to one and all while driving or walking, even if they don't know them, just in case, the other party knows them.
    I thought that was the raising of the thumb from the hand hanging over the top of the steering wheel.


  • #104
    CramCycle
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 24,413 Mod ✭✭✭✭CramCycle


    Wishbone Ash wrote: »
    I thought that was the raising of the thumb from the hand hanging over the top of the steering wheel.

    Never seen the thumb one but the fully outstretched arm (so their hand is on the windscreen), with their fingers as spread out as possible, turned sidewards, like a really weird "eastside" gang sign and a mad open mouthed grin was the other one that I seen in my youth, not as popular as the finger wave, and not as rare as the full wave.


  • #105
    eeeee
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 6,818 Mod ✭✭✭✭eeeee


    Ah the full hand spread is popular amongst lorry drivers (The father was one). It only appeared for people you actually knew. Ditto in tractor etc. Although the single finger is equally applicable. It's also embarrassingly instinctual to me also, although I try to confine it to down home.

    The thumb is equal to the finger, but less common down our way anyway!


  • #106
    Alek
    Registered Users Posts: 4,520 ✭✭✭Alek


    I do the weird culchie head nod, you know, the sideways twist.

    I've been living in this country for 11 years and it still takes a bit of thinking what does it really mean when I see it.

    "Your helmet is unstrapped dude"

    "Turn that blinding light off"

    "Nice bike but freddish kit"

    ...

    :pac:

    Somehow it does not look positive to me, sideway head movement usually means "no".

    Personally I open my right hand without lifting it from handlebar to greet oncoming cyclists on longer spins and in areas ridden bit less than Dublin>Eniskerry route on Saturday ;)


  • #107
    Kinet1c
    Closed Accounts Posts: 824 ✭✭✭Kinet1c


    I give a nod and will generally get a response back. When I don't :mad:


  • #108
    Encrypted Pigeon
    Registered Users Posts: 12,753 ✭✭✭✭Encrypted Pigeon


    I tend to give a salute when I can, but more often than not all I get in return is a look as to say "what is that bloated looking daffodil doing trying to ride a bike" :o


  • #109
    marty_crane
    Closed Accounts Posts: 298 ✭✭marty_crane


    Wishbone Ash wrote: »
    I was having a well earned break on a ditch on the N81

    Yeah, I'm in it for the glamour too


  • #110
    diomed
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,744 ✭✭✭diomed


    gadetra wrote: »
    He had a hole in the árse of his shorts too. that was unpleasant to say the least!
    Hi-viz :)


  • #111
    Hani Kosti
    Registered Users Posts: 270 ✭✭Hani Kosti


    CramCycle wrote: »
    I have only met three types of cyclists who don't wave back:
    Triathletes - they are not really cyclists
    Cyclists with nearly full kit but wearing runners instead of going with cleats - they don't know any better, give them time
    Orwell Wheelers - too good to communicate with the rest of us plebs :pac:

    Zing!!!! Still enjoy the feeling of being able to outrun a cyclist uphill on a windy day 😂😂😂


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  • #112
    Bloggsie
    Registered Users Posts: 1,054 ✭✭✭Bloggsie


    passed a posse from Lucan on the way out of Kilcock yesterday, 10-15 of them & not one of de hoors bothered to say hello, good morning, hows it going.

    all far to busy talking & causing a tail back into Kilcock. Where as any lone cyclist or two's i passed were very happy to give a shout out.

    must be a club thing!


  • #113
    Idleater
    Registered Users Posts: 6,236 ✭✭✭Idleater


    Bloggsie wrote: »
    passed a posse from Lucan on the way out of Kilcock yesterday, 10-15 of them & not one of de hoors bothered to say hello, good morning, hows it going.

    all far to busy talking & causing a tail back into Kilcock. Where as any lone cyclist or two's i passed were very happy to give a shout out.

    must be a club thing!

    I waved, and got chastened for saying hi to a loner probably with nothing better to do than complain on internet forums. You should pay more attention.

    the above is simulated truth

    Belated .o/ from lcrc.


  • #114
    daragh_
    Registered Users Posts: 3,121 ✭✭✭daragh_


    Everyone in Lucan is a gent and a scholar and I won't hear a word sent against them.



    That's got to be worth a least one lead out or a cash alternative.


  • #115
    Bloggsie
    Registered Users Posts: 1,054 ✭✭✭Bloggsie


    idleater,

    muchos gracias. i very much appreciate the gesture. you sir/madam are unique.

    daragh,

    "everyone in Lucan is a gent and a scholar", even the female members! wow thats some club, no doubt about it!


  • #116
    Wishbone Ash
    Registered Users Posts: 24,948 ✭✭✭✭Wishbone Ash


    Saluted a fellow club mate this evening (both of us in club kit) - no response! :confused:


  • #117
    MugMugs
    Registered Users Posts: 17,875 ✭✭✭✭MugMugs


    Wishbone Ash wrote: »
    Saluted a fellow club mate this evening (both of us in club kit) - no response! :confused:

    Never understood that. I've been blanked by an entire opposite approaching club pelaton before. Odd.


  • #118
    Lusk_Doyle
    Registered Users Posts: 4,338 ✭✭✭Lusk_Doyle


    Wishbone Ash wrote: »
    Saluted a fellow club mate this evening (both of us in club kit) - no response! :confused:

    Where was that? I was behind one of your club mates yesterday at the lights, which were red, going over the M1 for Swords. Guess what he did? I didn't wave.


  • #119
    Wishbone Ash
    Registered Users Posts: 24,948 ✭✭✭✭Wishbone Ash


    Lusk_Doyle wrote: »
    Where was that?...
    North Dublin City - I'm going to check Strava FlyBy and hunt him down! :D


  • #120
    Bloggsie
    Registered Users Posts: 1,054 ✭✭✭Bloggsie


    Wishbone Ash wrote: »
    Saluted a fellow club mate this evening (both of us in club kit) - no response! :confused:
    I know what his problem is he a member of the peoples front of judea & your not, your a member of the judean peoples front!


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  • #121
    Schecter01
    Registered Users Posts: 153 ✭✭Schecter01


    Splitters!!


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