rider etiquette??????

[farmboy]

I am all in favor of jabbing roadies, just ask my friends that are roadies. There are a lot of cool dudes that ride road bikes. But there are a lot of douchebags too, on both kinds of bikes, there just tend to be fewer on the fat tired version, or so it seems to me. The line between roadies and mountain bikers is a little more blurry than it used to be these days. Seems like everybody's riding for some kind of team these days. What happened to sould riding? Just riding for the sake of riding. A person who owns a mountain bike does not necessarily make a mountain biker. So it goes for a person that owns a road bike. It's an attitude one chooses to portray. A real roadie doesn't ride on bike paths. And that's that.

[basebklyn1]

I think bike path riders in general fall into a totally separate category. Labeling people riding road bikes on the bike path's as "roadies" is just not accurate. I label these people as "bike path warriors." These are people that are usually only recreational riders, and are intimidated by actually riding on the roads. They also tend to be rude, inconsiderate, and rather inexperienced when it comes to all aspects of riding, besides of course, parking their truck/suv at the entrance of the bike path, riding to one end of the path, turning around, riding back to their car, and being total douche bags for the duration of that time. I rarely ride the bike paths here in town to avoid these types.

[Rage]

... I label these people as "bike path warriors."

Nice, I think you're on to something.

Rg.