Originally Posted by
njkayaker
It takes two to tango and the half-wheeler is certainly leading (not innocent).
But the half-wheeling can't happen unless the others follow.
You and genejockey are saying the same thing but genejockey is focusing on what the others can do about it (not follow by not increasing their speed).
Uh, no. I've been focusing on the unconscious nature of the speed increase. After a while you're going significantly faster than you intended and maybe not knowing how that happened.
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The thing is that people don't keep a constant speed.
So, the followers likely see the half-wheeling as a normal variation in speed (rather than an attempt at increasing the speed). And it's normal/typical to match speeds.
The problem being that repeated or continual half-wheeling will lead to progressive acceleration, not normal speed variation.