Well, I did mention a specific partner and I did mention a specific category of rider, so that is two of your three requirements met.
You said "any cyclist". I agree with you on the partner.
Many posters here know I live in the Cotswolds, so they will know that I am not talking about an urban scenario with many other people about.
I live in rural Aberdeenshire, if this is about how rural we can be. Odd category for a bunfight, but hey. I don't see that this makes a difference as to whether it is legitimate to take offense at somebody not responding to you.
Many posters here have ridden with me
Likewise.
I have no problem with being overtaken, but I don't like it if somebody is showing off and being rude (and marginally dangerous) in the process.
Are we moving goalposts here? We've gone from "any cyclist" to people who are showing off, being rude,
and being marginally dangerous. I don't see how you get "showing off, being rude (and marginally dangerous)" from a failure to respond to "Hello." Are we talking about what they wear? I used to wear Olympic triathlon kit to train because I got it cheap in a bargain bin at a race, not because I was pretending to be one of the Brownlee brothers in disguise. The bike? I'm just happy to see other people out on bikes instead of tooling around in their motors pretending they're having a nice time because the sun is out and they've got the top down, and if someone can afford a nice bike, then it's their money. Better a Pinarello Dogma than a Subaru Impreza, frankly.
If you want to pull that cockish shit then don't die on a hill 500m up the road because you've just killed yourself to overtake me because I will be cockish back.
I don't understand how it's cockish to overtake someone on a nice bike in matching kit without saying hello. And so what if they die on a hill 500m later? Maybe they are doing intervals. Maybe they just wanted to see how fast they could go. Maybe they over-estimated their fitness. Maybe we should welcome people taking up cycling because more bikes on the road means the roads are safer.
Frankly, unless you, or Kim, were that man in bright Castelli kit shaving past me and Steve on a deep-rim carbon superbike, then I really don't know why you are trying to make my post about you.
And again, you are the one who said "any cyclist", which puts anyone who happens to share a road with you in the firing line. Now you're saying it's not any cyclist, it's just this one specific Castelli-wearing cyclist on a deep-rim carbon superbike who was showing off, rude, and marginally dangerous. That's neither normal nor a fetish. That's some sort of personal vendetta. That's between you and them.
As an aside, on the subject of women on bikes, I cant think of a single time a woman has gone past me and not said hello to me passing, just as I will say hello when I pass other people.
OK. So because you can't think of a time this has not happened, it never happens at all? I think you are conflating your personal experience with how the world is and should be.
I've had women stop to talk to me when I've been stationary at the side of the road. I don't find anything odd about that. It's just nice. It is one of the joys of not being enclosed in a speeding metal box, isolated from everything and everyone.
It's not odd. But neither is choosing not to interact.
Yes, of course people have a choice not to interract, but if you behave in the manner as described in my first post then you are already interacting.
This is a change from what you said originally. You specified any cyclist passing you without saying hello would experience you catching up with them just as they were dying on a hill so you could extract a resentful hello.
I'm still not sure I understand how passing you on a bike fitted with deep rim wheels while wearing Castelli kit and not saying hello is choosing to interact (quite the opposite, I'd have thought), but I'm glad we've got the exact circumstances sorted.
Sam