Your rant would be more to the point if it were directed simply at the guy who screwed up the ride. He's the guy whose inability to see beyond his own personal expections caused all the problems. Why you are trying to inveigh against the entire class of riders who can't or don't care to keep up with your L33t Sp33d is mysterious.
One might be tempted to observe, that since you knew his planning was likely to be inadequate that you should have taken special precautions against getting lost.
If you really believe you have never noticed fast riders complaining about social riders, it's likely your recall is being colored by your emotional state. There are regularly posts about slow people riding two+ abreast on MUPs. Iit is beyond debate that these people would fit within the aegis of "social rider", unless, of course, you wish to mint a third ring of cycling hell whence to relegate the loi polloi.
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Your rant would be more to the point if it were directed simply at the guy who screwed up the ride. He's the guy whose inability to see beyond his own personal expections caused all the problems. Why you are trying to inveigh against the entire class of riders who can't or don't care to keep up with your L33t Sp33d is mysterious.
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I guess I bored you and you fell asleep before you read the whole post. My rant was as much at "social" riders who think it's some kind of sin to ride fast as it was at the ride organizer.
But you are correct ... there are plenty of fast riders who dis "social" riders, too. What was I thinking? I forgot where the term "Fred" came from!
-- Bob C.
"Of course it hurts. The trick is not minding that it hurts." T. E. Lawrence (of Arabia)
