Take a penny leave a penny

Alright so heres the senario at play here. You're on a bike trail and you start drafting off of someone and chances are that the rider your drafting off of will get pissed. Noone likes to take a pull for some random person on a path, it's even worse when someone doesn't ask if they can draft behind you. It's one of those unwritten rules that you don't do that.

Yesterday I was on my way to the U-district from Redmond on the Burke Gilman trail when someone comes up on my wheel and starts riding in my draft. At first I was a bit peeved that he was doing this so I put the hammer down and started pulling hard but he was like my shadow and probably had much fresher legs than me. This went on for a while when he came up in front and started pulling for me. This was great and I was very happy at this point. He was even signalling for people, stops, and debry. This is how it should be done: if you draft off of someone expect to take your turn in the wind pulling and feeling a burn: its another unwritten rule. After I realized he was willing to work with me and take turns I started signalling like the lead-out of a group ride. The other rider and myself took about two turns each and set the pase pretty high: I could tell that we were both getting pretty tired. This lasted until we reached the U-district and he branched off and exchanged out respective "thanks for the pull" and went on our merry way. It was just a perfect cap to an otherwise great day of riding. It's great to know that there are very nice riders out there.

Hello there

Hey there everybody. Ive been telling myself that I was going to start a blog about bike kinds of things for sometime now. I just haven't gotten around to it. Well now that I've been layed up sick and out of training for the past couple of days, I'm bored. I'm hoping that I can impart some of my limited bike wisdom and irrelovent banter upon you guys.