Just flick the elbow and let them roll through 
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Velodrome dudes who can’t stand being passed, so they lift the power just enough that you’re either sitting in the middle lane for way too long trying to inch past them, or constantly running up their ass. Just let me make a decisive pass before something sketchy happens.
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It happens so often here that i have the link to the council’s fly-tipping site on my shortcuts bar. I caught one on video last year as i cycled past and got him prosecuted. He went all the way to court, protesting his innocence, but i had him on film, next to his car, even answering the question: “You’re not fly tipping there are you mate?” with “yes, it’s …”… It was a lovely sunny Sunday morning and he felt no problem with tipping his crap into a beautiful country lane. Idiot.
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People who have big egos because they’re faster than you, we’re all just trying to have fun riding. If you’re faster than me good for you it really doesn’t matter because I’m trying to be better than I was yesterday. I’m enjoying the process more than the end result. There are other things make me angry but they’re not cycling related.
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I seriously don’t understand this. Anyone jumps on my wheel, I let them on as long as they want. Doesn’t hurt me a damn bit.
Feels like a dick move to not help give a tow to someone who might need a rest. I have spare watts.
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Heh, I had to look up what fly tipping was. Never heard it called that here in the states.
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Maybe you missed the “unannounced” part of his comment. I think it gets to the safety and awareness aspect that other replies hit on after that comment.
At the very least, a rider SHOULD let someone know they are latching on to draft. But to be honest, they really should start by ASKING if it’s OK to do so in the first place. A random rider happening onto another may well be interrupting a planned workout, moment of respite where being truly solo is the goal, or any other reason a rider might want to ride alone.
It’s rude to a large degree IMO, that someone should assume their unplanned presence is welcomed and/or appreciated. It sure could be in the right time with the right rider. But just jumping on without notice or request is wrong to me. Asking permission is better than assuming in this case as it is for so many others.
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I’m happy for people to jump on my wheel, just say hi or thanks, hands up to everybody I see, can’t see why if you are going to ride with somebody (that basically what they are doing), they can’t say hi / thanks, had a guy jump on my wheel the other day, said he couldn’t come through, was happy pointing out pot holes, talked to him a lights, hate it when you get the silent treatment, then I start bunny hoping over potholes
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Yes. I live in an urban area (Chicago) - I don’t want to hit my brakes to avoid a car, a pedestrian, a squirrel … or really anything, and have someone ride right over the back of me. This has happened to me 4-5 times.
Also, it’s rude.
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Exactly. I am always stunned at how often it happens here.
Hard to do that if I don’t know they’re there until too late.
When some one jumps on my wheel I don’t know I usually up the pace, if its not high one already, and if they are still there you soon get the jist of whether they have the skill to do it safely. If they have I don’t really mind its a very slight aero advantage to me.
As a solo female cyclist, this can be pretty unnerving. We have to be constantly vigilant for irregularities around us, for safety (other than crash) reasons. Unsurprisingly, this isn’t anything that regularly occurs to male cyclists as an issue. So if you’re a male cyclist who wants to sit on a woman’s wheel, announce yourself.
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Huh? If they want a tow, they can ask … feels like a ‘dick’ move not to ask … or at least not to let someone know you’re sitting 6 inches off their wheel.
If I went and sat in my neighbors yard because it was bathed in sunlight and mine was shaded, I’d knock on his door and at least pay him/her the courtesy of asking.
Generally, if you want to ride in a group where I live, those rides are not hard to find. If someone is riding solo, it’s probably because they want to ride solo and not worry about a stranger of unknown skill right up their ass. 
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I think the key part is that unannounced basically means they aren’t riding with him originally. I’m assuming he’s riding solo and having some random person he passes, grab onto his wheel.
Yes, that’s what I took from it as well, when I said “they are basically riding with you”, it because they are grabbing you wheel, and riding with you, just not talking to you, which is rude
I won’t jump on someone’s wheel. I don’t like it when people do it to me. I’m doing a workout. I’m riding a certain pace. Whatever. I don’t need anyone on my wheel and I don’t want to have to point out potholes for the person.
It might be different if I sort of know the person or have ridden with them in the past on a group ride. And I’ll ask if I can jump on or if they wanted to ride together.
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Yes. This☝️
Agreed … it’s really simple to do this.
Dude, you’re getting a Dell.