Notices by Artemesia (artemesia@sfba.social)

@ascentale @MartyCormack @bikenite

A8) although I used to use an entry level race bike as my road bike (loved that bike, it got stolen), I do not like racer-wannabes' behavior locally during tour de france. Getting punishment passed by a spandex warrior as I'm slowly biking to the saturday farmer's market wearing a backpack does not make my day. Now, I enjoy watching the TdF more than most people, but leave the race behaviors on the course. There's also the dipshit name team on tour that pulled a peloton on a very busy MUP. I expect they lost their sponsorship over that. #bikenite

@bobjonkman @InkySchwartz @ascentale @MartyCormack @bikenite

Some cyclists do it too. If I have to break cadence to avoid contact when the overtaker swings back into the bike lane, that's a punishment pass. Now, some newbies doing an overtake don't realize that as soon as you overtake you lose your draft effect so you have to crank on a bit harder post-pass, but when the overtaker is wearing full spandex with a race number pinned to his (always "his") jersey, that's not a newbie. And no, motor vehicle traffic was not a factor, the adjacent car lane was empty.