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LONO100

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Hi all, fellow 26" hardtailer here. I don't post much but I'm constantly on the forum picking up tips and knowledge from all the members here. Usually when my gf goes biking with me, we usually hit up some nice easy trails and fireroads, and sometimes we will do some scenic rides which are plenty out here in the bay area and sometimes are on the pavement. A few weekends ago, the weather was awesome so we decided to do a scenic cruise from Sausalito, across the golden gate bridge, to pier 39 where we would have lunch and ride back. While the ride was beautiful, the one thing that got under my skin were the high percentage of d bag road bike guys who thought the roads and paths belonged exclusively to them. Now mind you, the gg bridge and the piers in SF are world famous tourist sites, and there are lots and lots of people on bikes with their families casually riding around taking in the beauty.

what I noticed out of nearly every road bike guy flying by was this extreme rudeness toward the tourists and other casual cyclists and pedestrians. It was unbelievable. At one point I saw a guy towing his young son in one of those little trailers, and I can't tell you how many road bike guys yelled obscenities' at him as they passed him while he towed his son across the bridge. I saw road bike guys passing buy literally calling people names and yelling at people as they passed by. It was the silliest things I've ever seen. I mean what do they want!? For no tourists to ever find their way onto the gg bridge so that the road bikers can have it all to themselves!? If you don't want to deal with tons of people while you road bike, go away from the city. There are plenty of great rides outside the city where its completely wide open. It just made me really mad, I was actually waiting for one of these middle aged fake tough guys in their little outfits to yell at my girl just so I could have a reason to pound the hell out of one of these guys. And it seems to be everywhere. I've been all over the country and everytime I run into a road bike guy, he almost always has a crazy attitude.

when I'm on the trails, and even on a busy single track, I rarely run into a guy who isn't a nice guy with great trail manners. Sorry, just venting, and glad I'm into trail riding and not wearing little spandex shorts and feeling like the entire world and all the roads in it belong to me.
 
#2 ·
Us vs. them..............again?

Sorry to hear about your experience. It does suck pretty bad, but, we've killed this topic several times before. Search it out and bump the thread if need be.

Cheers.

p.s. They're not ALL bad. There are D-bags everywhere no mater what you're in to.
 
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Rural Roadies are Chill

LONO100 said:
Hi all, fellow 26" hardtailer here. I don't post much but I'm constantly on the forum picking up tips and knowledge from all the members here. Usually when my gf goes biking with me, we usually hit up some nice easy trails and fireroads, and sometimes we will do some scenic rides which are plenty out here in the bay area and sometimes are on the pavement. A few weekends ago, the weather was awesome so we decided to do a scenic cruise from Sausalito, across the golden gate bridge, to pier 39 where we would have lunch and ride back. While the ride was beautiful, the one thing that got under my skin were the high percentage of d bag road bike guys who thought the roads and paths belonged exclusively to them. Now mind you, the gg bridge and the piers in SF are world famous tourist sites, and there are lots and lots of people on bikes with their families casually riding around taking in the beauty.

what I noticed out of nearly every road bike guy flying by was this extreme rudeness toward the tourists and other casual cyclists and pedestrians. It was unbelievable. At one point I saw a guy towing his young son in one of those little trailers, and I can't tell you how many road bike guys yelled obscenities' at him as they passed him while he towed his son across the bridge. I saw road bike guys passing buy literally calling people names and yelling at people as they passed by. It was the silliest things I've ever seen. I mean what do they want!? For no tourists to ever find their way onto the gg bridge so that the road bikers can have it all to themselves!? If you don't want to deal with tons of people while you road bike, go away from the city. There are plenty of great rides outside the city where its completely wide open. It just made me really mad, I was actually waiting for one of these middle aged fake tough guys in their little outfits to yell at my girl just so I could have a reason to pound the hell out of one of these guys. And it seems to be everywhere. I've been all over the country and everytime I run into a road bike guy, he almost always has a crazy attitude.

when I'm on the trails, and even on a busy single track, I rarely run into a guy who isn't a nice guy with great trail manners. Sorry, just venting, and glad I'm into trail riding and not wearing little spandex shorts and feeling like the entire world and all the roads in it belong to me.
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Wow! That must be an urban thing, or maybe just a bay area thing. The roadies around here are chill, and most are part-time roadies & part-time MTBers (including me). Can't we all just get along?:cool:
 
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I spent a lot of time living and road biking in the bay area and never saw that happen once. I rode across the GGB and into marin on a very nice, very crowded day and didnt experience anything similar to that either!

In general, people on bikes have been the friendliest group of people ive ever ran across, road or mountain. Good people tend to ride bikes.
 
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exactly that

LONO100 said:
Hi all, fellow 26" hardtailer here. I don't post much but I'm constantly on the forum picking up tips and knowledge from all the members here. Usually when my gf goes biking with me, we usually hit up some nice easy trails and fireroads, and sometimes we will do some scenic rides which are plenty out here in the bay area and sometimes are on the pavement. A few weekends ago, the weather was awesome so we decided to do a scenic cruise from Sausalito, across the golden gate bridge, to pier 39 where we would have lunch and ride back. While the ride was beautiful, the one thing that got under my skin were the high percentage of d bag road bike guys who thought the roads and paths belonged exclusively to them. Now mind you, the gg bridge and the piers in SF are world famous tourist sites, and there are lots and lots of people on bikes with their families casually riding around taking in the beauty.

what I noticed out of nearly every road bike guy flying by was this extreme rudeness toward the tourists and other casual cyclists and pedestrians. It was unbelievable. At one point I saw a guy towing his young son in one of those little trailers, and I can't tell you how many road bike guys yelled obscenities' at him as they passed him while he towed his son across the bridge. I saw road bike guys passing buy literally calling people names and yelling at people as they passed by. It was the silliest things I've ever seen. I mean what do they want!? For no tourists to ever find their way onto the gg bridge so that the road bikers can have it all to themselves!? If you don't want to deal with tons of people while you road bike, go away from the city. There are plenty of great rides outside the city where its completely wide open. It just made me really mad, I was actually waiting for one of these middle aged fake tough guys in their little outfits to yell at my girl just so I could have a reason to pound the hell out of one of these guys. And it seems to be everywhere. I've been all over the country and everytime I run into a road bike guy, he almost always has a crazy attitude.

when I'm on the trails, and even on a busy single track, I rarely run into a guy who isn't a nice guy with great trail manners. Sorry, just venting, and glad I'm into trail riding and not wearing little spandex shorts and feeling like the entire world and all the roads in it belong to me.
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Look do what i do, carry a tazer with you on every ride. Dude, there are serious psycopaths out there on bikes. Try rollin in the east coast crowd, all of them on super light weight weenie bikes, everytime. And the clothing they wear ahahahahahaah.

I bet the stress giant about those bikes lol. Omg its dirty, fokkkkkkk. Lol

Look, dont say a word to them, point ur tazer in the air and let it cracle a few times.
They will figure it out real fast.

There was an instance a while back where 10 or 15 kids were trail riding. Nice trails, big air jumps ect.

There was this guy on a very cool looking YETI fs bike.
He kept barging people to get to the jumps first. Well... he barged the wrong guy, the guy tazed him in the shoulder and that was it, he went home.

Its not just roadies, theres a certain type of person that just rages on other people. I think they feel like if they can get away with it, they will talk big smak.

But now we can just turn them off with one touch. They will wake up soon. Feel like hell and go home.
 
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LONO100 said:
Hi all, fellow 26" hardtailer here.
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Not a fellow 26" hardtailer..., I ride 29ers and therefore I am better than you. :p

(before that starts another tired debate, IT WAS A JOKE)

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I mean what do they want!? For no tourists to ever find their way onto the gg bridge so that the road bikers can have it all to themselves!?
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Yes, that is exactly what they want (they being the guys that act like d0uches not all road bikers).

LONO100 said:
It just made me really mad, I was actually waiting for one of these middle aged fake tough guys in their little outfits to yell at my girl just so I could have a reason to pound the hell out of one of these guys.
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Don't talk sh!t here like you are tough when it is obvious these guys are not here to defend themselves. Also be careful what you ask for. It isn't like those guys aren't in shape and one of those middle age fake tough guys may end up being tougher than you think and end up beating the brakes off you.

Besides, if you were a really tough, you would have stood up for one of the weaker tourists instead of just pretending to wish for a reason.

Sorry, my opinion.
 
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mjs1231 said:
Look do what i do, carry a tazer with you on every ride. Dude, there are serious psycopaths out there on bikes. Try rollin in the east coast crowd, all of them on super light weight weenie bikes, everytime. And the clothing they wear ahahahahahaah.

I bet the stress giant about those bikes lol. Omg its dirty, fokkkkkkk. Lol

Look, dont say a word to them, point ur tazer in the air and let it cracle a few times.
They will figure it out real fast.

There was an instance a while back where 10 or 15 kids were trail riding. Nice trails, big air jumps ect.

There was this guy on a very cool looking YETI fs bike.
He kept barging people to get to the jumps first. Well... he barged the wrong guy, the guy tazed him in the shoulder and that was it, he went home.

Its not just roadies, theres a certain type of person that just rages on other people. I think they feel like if they can get away with it, they will talk big smak.

But now we can just turn them off with one touch. They will wake up soon. Feel like hell and go home.
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You weave quite a yarn there fella. I was thinking of getting an SB-95, but you have me thinking twice.
 
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Hey moderators, why don't you clean up the "passion" forum and keep only the threads that are about riding passion. Better yet, put the "general" forum at the top above this one so that people post all the garbage in that one since it's the fist one they see and apparently most people don't read titles.
 
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sorry if this is beaten to death, jusy sharing a recent riding experience

Sorry if this has been beaten to death on this forum, I'm fairly new here and I jump on and read when I get free time to kill. I'm not saying mountain bike guy is superior to anyone either. I grew up riding BMX and I'm building a road bike as right now. I'm by no means a fan boy, I'm not a ford guy, I'm not a Chevy guy, I'm not an anything guy, but there is definitely a different vibe between dirt and pavement. And I don't think its a bay area thing either I was recently in Portland and Chicago and noticed the same thing. Sorry if this is an old topic, but the title of my thread prefaces what my rant was about, so if this is a tired subject for you, I don't think there's anything wrong with not clicking on it. Just sharing a recent riding experience as the passion byline suggests.
 
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@ jackl - You know what, I think you might have been accused of being "bike guy" once ot twice by the way you seem offended at my post. And if you have ever been on the gg bridge you would know that all the bike riders are on one side and the road bike guys were yelling at these tourists as they crossed paths and whizzed by. And no I couldn't simply turn around and stand up for this poor guy gettin cursed at by these bags, but as soon as we got to the Sausalito side where it opened up, I talked to the guy and told him that I was from SF, in the mission and this is not how most bay area people act toward people. He told me he wasn't from too far away (Gilroy) and he had been to the bay area before. So why don't you check yourself, if this topic is trash to you that's fine, just leave it alone then. But I'm getting the feeling that you may have been accused of being"bike guy" yourself. I'm just sharing a riding experience as the section byline suggests, I didn't know know I had to feel the same way you do about road bike guys. I wouldn't be surprised if you were a middle aged guy who thinks he's super athletic and can beat the brakes off people.
 
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