TonyI’ve never before felt anything but camaraderie from fellow #audax riders. Yesterday a group of 5-6 who obviously felt that I shouldn’t be faster than them because I don’t look like a ‘cyclist’ (I’m 1.87m and 95kg), repeatedly caught me, blocked me in and slowed down; one nearly taking my front wheel out in the process, after which we had a frank exchange of views. Discretion being the better part of valour I made an unscheduled cafe stop and never saw them until the end.
Pete@onetwotony I've definitely witnessed a change in—and it sounds elitist but—the accepted norms of group cycling over the past decade or so, and a muddying of the old 'sportives are pretending to race, audaxes/reliability rides are pretending not to race' jokey truism.
Your café stop sounded a sensible distraction.