Passing commuters

When you're doing intervals and come up behind a seasoned commuter and have
to pass, how do you do it without looking like a tosser trying to race?

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OzCableguy Wrote:
When you're doing intervals and come up behind a seasoned commuter and
have
to pass, how do you do it without looking like a tosser trying to
race?
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Why would you look like a tosser ?? If you are that paranoid about it
just shorten or extend your interval appropriately.

Or better still if they are that seasoned ask them to lead you on a
"REALLY" long interval


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MikeyOz

Get up out of the saddle, pedal as hard as you can then sit down as you pass
them, a simple 'morning' or 'afternoon' as you blast by usually has the
effect.
Jock

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"Jock" wrote in message
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Get up out of the saddle, pedal as hard as you can then sit down as you
pass
them, a simple 'morning' or 'afternoon' as you blast by usually has the
effect.
Jock


heh. Yeah, I guess it's no big deal what they think really, but sometimes I
wonder what crosses their minds when a big fat bloke on a mountain bike
whips by huffing and puffing for all I'm worth only to have them catch me up
a bit further down the road once I've backed off again. Worse still is when
they catch me up right when I'm about to do another sprint. It must scream
"******".

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In aus.bicycle on Sat, 13 Oct 2007 02:03:50 GMT
OzCableguy wrote:

heh. Yeah, I guess it's no big deal what they think really, but sometimes I
wonder what crosses their minds when a big fat bloke on a mountain bike
whips by huffing and puffing for all I'm worth only to have them catch me up
a bit further down the road once I've backed off again. Worse still is when
they catch me up right when I'm about to do another sprint. It must scream
"******".

I seldom see another rider, so probably won't have to deal with the
problem.

If I do I had best have both hands on the bars, riding past someone
while leaning back with one hand negligently dangling is probably
screaming "******" even louder.

Especially if you slow dramatically on hills...

Zebee
- who has done Melville St 3 times in a row now! still slower than
walking.... Dunno how I'll go on a hot day.

OzCableguy Wrote:
but sometimes I
wonder what crosses their minds when a big fat bloke on a mountain
bike
whips by huffing and puffing for all I'm worth only to have them catch
me up
a bit further down the road once I've backed off again

As you pass them shout out "come on lard ar$e"


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MikeyOz

"OzCableguy" wrote in message
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heh. Yeah, I guess it's no big deal what they think really, but sometimes
I wonder what crosses their minds when a big fat bloke on a mountain bike
whips by huffing and puffing for all I'm worth only to have them catch me
up a bit further down the road once I've backed off again. Worse still is
when they catch me up right when I'm about to do another sprint. It must
scream "******".


Hehe - last night I called in at the Mountain Goat Brewery for the 10th
anniversary celebrations and ended up catching up with Bikesoiler over 5 or
so beers. I left there just before 7.30pm, negotiated past the security
guard on the door and the line of people waiting to get in (the place was
packed), and rode home on my singlespeed mtb along the Yarra Boulevard until
the Chandler Hwy and then on the Yarra Trail home from there. As I was
coming over the second last hill on the Boulie (just before crossing the
Fwy) I was overtaken by a young guy on a roadie out for a training ride (no
backpack). I let him go past, then just as I got to the bottom of the last
hill (just after the Fwy) another young guy went past me (also no backpack)
and he looked like he was putting in the big ones to smash past me up the
hill. I decided to crank it up a bit and so I stayed about 5m behind him
all the way up the hill - I made sure he knew I was there because he only
had a couple of white flashers and I had the 2 x 3W Cree LEDs on the bars
and another 2 x 3W Cree LEDs on my helmet and I made sure that I kept the
helmet light trained on his back the whole way up!!! He tried to get out of
the saddle a couple of times to drop me but I was able to stay with him (My
SS runs a 38 x 16 gear). He was clearly buggered by the top of the hill and
I was having a bit of a chuckle to myself - I then let the gravity turbo
kick in (steel bike + 102kg Gags + approx 8kg backpack + slicks pumped to 65
psi + hubs only repacked and adjusted last week) and I went past both of
them on the downhill without having to turn a pedal.

I guess you could say that was how not to overtake a "seasoned commuter" -
hehehehehe. You have to keep them young whippersnappers honest every now
and then.

Gags

On Oct 13, 9:37 pm, "Gags" wrote:
"OzCableguy" wrote in message

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heh. Yeah, I guess it's no big deal what they think really, but sometimes
I wonder what crosses their minds when a big fat bloke on a mountain bike
whips by huffing and puffing for all I'm worth only to have them catch me
up a bit further down the road once I've backed off again. Worse still is
when they catch me up right when I'm about to do another sprint. It must
scream "******".

Hehe - last night I called in at the Mountain Goat Brewery for the 10th
anniversary celebrations and ended up catching up with Bikesoiler over 5 or
so beers. I left there just before 7.30pm, negotiated past the security
guard on the door and the line of people waiting to get in (the place was
packed), and rode home on my singlespeed mtb along the Yarra Boulevard until
the Chandler Hwy and then on the Yarra Trail home from there. As I was
coming over the second last hill on the Boulie (just before crossing the
Fwy) I was overtaken by a young guy on a roadie out for a training ride (no
backpack). I let him go past, then just as I got to the bottom of the last
hill (just after the Fwy) another young guy went past me (also no backpack)
and he looked like he was putting in the big ones to smash past me up the
hill. I decided to crank it up a bit and so I stayed about 5m behind him
all the way up the hill - I made sure he knew I was there because he only
had a couple of white flashers and I had the 2 x 3W Cree LEDs on the bars
and another 2 x 3W Cree LEDs on my helmet and I made sure that I kept the
helmet light trained on his back the whole way up!!! He tried to get out of
the saddle a couple of times to drop me but I was able to stay with him (My
SS runs a 38 x 16 gear). He was clearly buggered by the top of the hill and
I was having a bit of a chuckle to myself - I then let the gravity turbo
kick in (steel bike + 102kg Gags + approx 8kg backpack + slicks pumped to 65
psi + hubs only repacked and adjusted last week) and I went past both of
them on the downhill without having to turn a pedal.

I guess you could say that was how not to overtake a "seasoned commuter" -
hehehehehe. You have to keep them young whippersnappers honest every now
and then.

Gags


Haha... As Oz put it, they we're probably thinking "******"! :-)
LOL!!!

In these situations I always assume the guys I'm passing are on their
way home from a 100 k ride with a few hill repeats thrown in. That's
be the only way I could pass!!

Gags wrote:
... He was clearly buggered by the top of the hill and
I was having a bit of a chuckle to myself - I then let the gravity turbo
kick in (steel bike + 102kg Gags + approx 8kg backpack + slicks pumped to 65
psi + hubs only repacked and adjusted last week) and I went past both of
them on the downhill without having to turn a pedal.

I like it a lot. ;-)

My favourite is when I'm commuting home on Aaargh[1] and I get passed
while I'm stopped at the pedestrian lights by a poser/wannabe who
blows the red. They've usually opened up a 100m or so gap by the time
I get a green, and on the rare occasions that manage to catch them
going up the long hill I make sure to call out "Put in, lad!" as I
sail past. ;-)


BTH
[1] http://www.smallsolar.org/BTH/budgetbike/

Gags Wrote:
I decided to crank it up a bit and so I stayed about 5m behind him
all the way up the hill - I made sure he knew I was there because he
only
had a couple of white flashers and I had the 2 x 3W Cree LEDs on the
bars
and another 2 x 3W Cree LEDs on my helmet and I made sure that I kept
the
helmet light trained on his back the whole way up!!!

Poor guy, he probably couldn't see the road in front of him because it
was always in shadow. When a rider I was following found out that my
Cree light had a low brightness setting (0.7W not 4W), I was asked to
next time use it when following so he could still see the road in front.
Oops.


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