Originally Posted by
WhyFi
You're sounding like a broken record because you're not getting it. You introduced the word "etiquette" and you keep trying to make "jumping on a stranger's wheel" a matter of etiquette... it's not. Not entirely, at least. It *is* wholly a matter of safety, though. Whether or not you ask permission and whether or not it granted, being on a stranger's wheel is not safe - you don't know them, you don't know their habits, being on their wheel is neither smart nor safe.
Further, they don’t know his habits and whether or not he’s going to plow into the back of them when they slow off of their current interval or whatever. It’s just dumb, rude and unsafe.