Quote Originally Posted by Starfish View Post
At the risk of sort of changing the thread direction...how do you tell someone you don't want them drafting off you?
I was thinking of the same thing that Teigyr suggested. Just slow down, so they don't WANT to draft you. I haven't had this experience yet, though. (Newbie!)

I've been wondering about all this same sort of stuff, though, so this is a good thread. On our tandem ride to the beach yesterday, we and our other tandem friends ended up drafting with a few other cyclists. There was a guy who had sort of attached himself to us for a while, then we caught up to two or three other guys and slowed down behind them. I kept expecting that we'd pass them, but finally clued in that we were drafting with them. They ended up speeding up when they realized we were there and we stayed with them the rest of the way.

I never asked, but wondered also about the etiquette of all of this. The guy that started drafting us didn't ask. As far as I know our tandem friends ahead of us didn't ask the "other guys" we ended up with. I have a feeling it's more acceptable among the guys, but I don't know. I'll have to get Dh's take on this.