I road with a triathlete, I actually have nothing against triathletes... just ta couple I ride with at my school, I ride with several others and get along with them great. This particular one is the worst not necessarily in her likeliness of causing a crash as I have another to nominate for that but in the fact that she was doing it on purpose and not just oblivious. she kept swearing the entire ride about how stupid f-in drivers were and she refused to unclip. She even did some weird turn on the wrong side the road to avoid unclipping when she should have stopped at an intersection as the car had no stop sign. I've seen cars do dumb stuff around cyclists, but despite her swearing at every driver...this bike ride was perfect in regards to drivers. Not a single car we came across did anything wrong.
What I hate about this is then drivers associate her bad behavior with all cyclists. As the president of a collegiate cycling club, I dont want her back as when new riders see more experienced ones blowing through stop signs they start doing stuff like that. Additionally since she was swearing so much I didn't think she'd take my feedback very well which was that she was the only crazy person lacking common sense. Sometimes you really should just unclip your pedal. Its not that hard to get back in.



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