Originally Posted by
jrhoneOC
OP....It ALSO sounds like he could be a guy that was (very awkwardly) hitting on you.
+1
I’ve seen a few guys/situations like that.
Or he was simply one of those people whose ”natural” style of conversation can be kinda grating, for whatever reason. One guy I rode in the same group as this summer was like that. It was as if he always had to (socially) position himself in the group by:
- mentioning a few choice items that are rare - and expensive - about his bike
- mentioning a few choice items that were old and/or cheap on other people’s bikes
- say something about how hard/fast/far he’d ridden since the previous group ride
- and preferably something like if there was any drafting to be done, how he preferred drafting behind women, ”because of the better view ahead”...
Once he’d gotten that out of his system, he’d be ”ok” for the rest of the ride.
Compared to the OP, I had the ”advantage” of seeing this guy go through that routine several times, in bigger groups, making it easy to conclude that it wasn’t anything personal about his remarks.
Although clumsily, it seems like the OP’s guy at least tried to be helpful and encouraging.