Preaching to the choir here, but just a friendly reminder to those of you that wear headphones while riding - try to keep your music at a level where you can hear what's around you - I.E. other riders coming up behind you. 

Now for the real part of this:

To the fella that was riding WWC in a red sleeveless shirt, black Fox shorts, red Shimano shoes, white 26er, BLARING Taylor Swift in your headphones (Yes I was granny pedaling for that long behind you that I heard and remember this all) - I'm the "mother effing a$$h0le d!ckhead" - my name is actually Sean, though - that was behind you for 1.3 miles while you were 100% oblivious to my MANY attempts to gain your attention in the usual friendly manner. Sorry for not being sorry.  Maybe turn your headphones down before you start screaming at me when I pass you on the widest part of the trail... 

Enoch wrote on 07/20/15 at 9:37pm:


Lol, I thought about that after the fact.  But I literally am not a "racer" mentality.  I give people tons of time to move out of the way.  I even say outloud "no rush, whenever you get a clear chance".  But when I passed him on the right through the trees, he flipped out!  I even said sorry right as I passed him, until he decided to take a guess at my name, as stated above.  Oh humans, you never let me down.

I am guilty of sometimes riding with my headphones. What I am not guilty of, however, is blaring them or not being aware of riders behind me. I also yield the trail quickly when someone is clearly about to overtake me. 

I find the principal offenders can all be found at the WWC. Last week I got stuck behind two girls on the Lake Loop (I almost wrote "Weight Loop" - oops) who, despite hearing "rider back" multiple times, kept huffing along. Fortunately they both got "disembiked" on the one large root that lays across the top of a small uphill and I could blow by them. It wasn't the first time that I encountered rude people on the trails there (one time some idiot that had clearly never been there thought she was smart and informed me and my buddy - "that says one way" when we exited the Lake Loop. It was clearly the exit though. Eh - enjoy your eminent heart attack and let me know where you come out). 

I thought about PMing the WWC guy on here and asking him if the employees at the bike rental could remind the patrons to yield to faster riders. And maybe keep their mouths shut. 

I feel like we should be the ones swearing. I also feel like a guy blaring Taylor Swift should lose his mountain biking privileges. And if he had a beard, he should be forced to shave it. 

He's lucky you're as patient as you are...

JeepnBikeGuy wrote on 07/21/15 at 12:37am:

HA!

JeepnBikeGuy wrote on 07/21/15 at 12:37am:


Oh yes, it was.

The only reason I like Taylor Swift is because I'm going to marry her - but she just doesn't know it yet.

One headphone in, one out is the way to roll....

I don't wear headphones for a few reasons:
1. I like the sound of knobby tires on dirt/rock/roots and occasionally nothing at all.  There's a peacefulness to it that I don't want to cover up with earbuds.
2. If there's a mechanical issue with my bike that I can't feel, but can hear, I want to hear it sooner than later.  When I used to be into the rockcrawling scene, I always shook my head at the guy blasting his stereo through obstacles as vital parts were dangling off his rig.
3. I don't want to be the d-bag that has no idea what's going on around me.  I've been behind enough of them.

I enjoy music when i ride alone but i use a phone mount on bike and listen through the speaker.  i do try to keep the volumn low due to wanting to know when someone is near,  the large variety of musical genres that i listen to is not always for others and also a few songs might be embarrassing for others to hear.  i do run a bike bell to warn others that i am behind them(which is seldom) and it normally works pretty well.

flynbryan19 wrote on 07/21/15 at 1:54pm:


I would say I listen to it about 20% of the time and only when I ride alone. Sometimes it's helpful when you are trying to increase the intensity of your rides. A little Blink 182 goes a long way, especially during the first few miles. 

Btw. He might have been dressed like one of us, and doing what we "do" - but dressing like one of us don't make you one of us. 

Left one in right one out and volume is pretty low unless it's Taylor Swift or ABBA😅.