I sleep in the day......
Back on the shift work, starting tonight.
I thought the grass was greener, but by January I wanted my old gig back. Took me 6 months to get the job back I struggled to get rid of :-)
Pack those commuter lights away....
Though I will miss my friends I wave at on the boulevard going north every morning. The recumbent dude, beard and baggies. The Red and yellow kitted guy ( synergy?) who actually waves back.
Sad to say a certain bunch refuses to wave and stares curiously...
Really, how threatening can a reflective vest over a backpack and a headlight on a giant Bell helmet be? Is it the creaking old cross bike that calls across the boulevard like a ancient Maori war cry, making eyes narrow and body parts shrink inside the spandex?
Have a good week, everyone!
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I'm not much into waving, but try to getting a wave back from someone in your own kit on the ARBT - ha. We're makin' em exclusive to the race team next year...
I attack all that don't wave.
Give a nod, a wink or at least wave the finger.
Show some solidarity for the two wheeled when rolling along.
Courtesy isn't much to ask for and at least one doesn't look like a jerkwad.
We Spideys have one of the best looking kits out there, we could be jerkwads and be stuck up, but waving and being nice is in the membership contract.
There's actually a whole hierarchy of who has to wave and who doesn't:
-Road Pro's wave at no one but other RP's.
-Mtb Pro's only have to wave at other MtbP's and RP's.
-Cross Pro's only wave at other CxP's, MtbP's and RP's.
-Domestic Pro's wave at other DP's, RP's, MtbP's and CxP's.
-Cat 1's wave at other Cat 1's and then the above.
-Semi Pro Mtbers only wave at other SP Mtbers or the above.
-Cat 2's wave at other Cat 2's and then the above.
-Expert Mtbers only wave at other Exp Mtbers and then the above.
-Continue sequence through Cat 5 or Mtb Beginners.
-Recumbants and commuters only wave at other Recumbants and commuters or then the above.
-Unicyclists wave at other Unicyclists and then the above.
-Triathletes especially those that refer to themselves at such wave at everyone. Nobody waves back save other Triatheletes.
So now you know.
actually all mtbr & cyclocrossing men smile and wave to mtbr & cyclocrossing women.
at least in my experience.
bike commuters always seem to wave to other commuting women - again, in my experience.
but road racers - yeah there's that silly "hi" erarchy thing.
The crossers- all wave.
Especially when I was doing intervals with my backpack on going home over Diablo. Big smile wave.
Women wave.
The hierarchy is silly to me.
But then I used "proletariat" in a sentence the other day while suffering up MTR, so maybe it's the pinko tendencies :-)
I wave and stuff. Once this mt bike dude was rude, so I jumped on and sucked his wheel. He was cursing me but I just smiled and held on until we went our separate ways. Ahhhh that was a good day!
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