my greetings to fellow cyclists are in direct porportion to how light the traffic and how remote the location. if it;s hairy out there, i only greet them if the bike is really worth commenting on or if i really like the person. if i'm in the middle of no where i always say "hi" just because i admire the spirit of anyone biking in the middle of nowhere, too! i don't care what they are riding, it could be utter crap or something really interesting.
devon warner
in congested and hairy
san francisco, USA
> From: John Betmanis <johnb@oxford.net>
\r?\n> Subject: Re: [CR]Greeting Cyclists on the road
\r?\n> To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
\r?\n> Date: Tuesday, August 26, 2008, 10:58 AM
\r?\n> At 12:42 PM 26/08/2008 EDT, BobHoveyGa@aol.com wrote:
\r?\n>
\r?\n> >I too have noticed that some folks on very expensive
\r?\n> modern bikes do not car
\r?\n> >e
\r?\n> >to greet you as they pass. My impression has been
\r?\n> that they are not always
\r?\n> >
\r?\n> >unfriendly, they are sometimes just too out of breath
\r?\n> to speak.
\r?\n>
\r?\n> And too afraid to take a hand off the bars for fear that
\r?\n> they may crash? ;)
\r?\n>
\r?\n> John Betmanis
\r?\n> Woodstock, Ontario
\r?\n> Canada