Re: Coumting bikes

On Sat, 20 Apr 2024 23:53:21 GMT, Tom Kunich <cyclintom@yahoo.com>
wrote:

On Sat Apr 20 12:57:51 2024 Catrike Ryder  wrote:

On Sat, 20 Apr 2024 15:41:01 GMT, Roger Merriman <roger@sarlet.com>
wrote:
 

Catrike Ryder <Soloman@old.bikers.org> wrote:

On Sat, 20 Apr 2024 11:12:03 GMT, Roger Merriman <roger@sarlet.com>
wrote:
 

Frank Krygowski <frkrygow@sbcglobal.net> wrote:

On 4/19/2024 4:19 PM, Catrike Ryder wrote:

On Fri, 19 Apr 2024 13:54:55 -0500, AMuzi <am@yellowjersey.org> wrote:
 

On 4/19/2024 1:15 PM, Catrike Ryder wrote:

Why would
anyone choose to ride under somebody else's directions?

 
 
As is often quoted, for every room in heaven there's another
just like it in hell for someone else.

 
Everybody follows their own directions. Some people's directions have
them following other people.

 
So the grumpiest person here, and the one with the most limited riding
regime, thinks there's no joy or value in riding with others.
 
On my most recent group ride, I had friendly conversation with at least
8 different people, and I was introduced to a few roads I'd never
ridden, some with beautiful scenery. At the group ride's end, I carried
on solo for another 16 miles or so at a higher pace.
 
I'm happy to be able to enjoy riding with others or riding solo, riding
fast or riding more slowly, riding for recreation or for utility.
 
Some folks are much more limited.
 

Indeed, I ride with a range of folks from friends from my youth to a
variety of different folks at the bike club. From very fit Strava segment
chasers to cake chatters, mostly off road though not always, such as riding
around London Cobbles organised by another club which was a hoot, with
someone I?d not ridden with much.
 
Do I ride on my own absolutely! I?m generally more technical than my riding
companion so bigger more scary stuff I do on my own.
 
Roger Merriman

 
While other people apparently enjoy small talk sessions, they tend to
annoy me because I don't want to come right out tell people that I
don't care how their brother-in-law broke his leg, so I have to sit
there and pretend that I do.
 

Fine that?s well a choice, ie clubs aren?t for everyone and clubs differ
with their focus some have a more performance focus others more social and
so on, plus some club rides are essentially chain gangs, no chatting
likely! Compared to social/cafe types that will be very much so.
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And anything in between.
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It?s not even a binary choice.
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Roger Merriman

 
 
Deeply introverted people like me don't really have a choice.
 
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/introversion

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You have to remember that riding a carrrike is not like riding a 2 wheeler. It is nice to have someone there if you catch a wheel in a crack and get thrown down the road at 30 mph

It seems to me that person would be more likely to do that if they're
gossiping with each other as they ride.