Things that are a pet peeve in cycling that are not common or maybe are just irrational.
Leme start.
When people wear team jerseys for a team they are not on. Or cheep fake nati champ jerseys.
The people thinking they have a “Titanium race bike”
People who still refuse carbon all together cause its “Not strong enough”
I cant wait to hear yours
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My pet peeve is that people care about this. Wear a football or basketball team jersey and nobody bats an eye. Wear a cycling team jersey and everybody loses their mind. Doesn’t make any sense. Irritates me when I hear one person tell somebody else not to wear a team jersey.
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My pet peeve is people who put down others for buying nice things. “Oh, they were on an S-Works bike wearing MAAP gear and I passed them on my single speed wearing jorts and a sweatshirt”.
That kind of post always gets a ton of upvotes and I really don’t get it. Why do you care if other people inject money into the cycling industry? People never brag about “I was driving down the highway in my $10,000 car and I passed a guy driving a Ferrari, what a loser!” Makes no sense to me.
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My pet peeve: Planned obsolescence!
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The lead in a paceline pulls off, then stays near the front going almost the same speed.
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ebikes. Fine for utility bikes, but not otherwise, and especially not mtb.
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True. I hate getting more people into cycling.
/s
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This is another one I just completely don’t understand. Why do people care what bike other people ride?
For a lot of people, the answer is “I had a bad experience with some jerk on an ebike”, but that leaves out the vast majority of people riding them responsibly and for various reasons that improve their cycling and life. I totally don’t understand the hate.
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I don’t get the hate anymore either. I have both an eMTB and a regular XC bike. I ride the XC bike more and it (and my gravel bike) are my go to outside training bikes. The eMTB is just another training tool that I use when I still want to get in a few hours outside, but want to keep the intensity low.
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I don’t hate them, have one for hauling kids & cargo, but it does seem that they sometimes cause conflict just because they operate in the same, often limited, space as human powered bikes and they have a very different set of constraints that their operators don’t necessarily understand. I don’t even think it comes down to the operators being jerks – in many cases these are people who have never and would never ride a non-assist bike in my town. That’s both the huge success of ebikes and the challenge.
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Related to this: Marketed Obsolescence. Like, all the marketing that comes with a new bike launch that makes you (or tries to) feel like your model is now worthless. And the white papers brands put out with all the marketing, erm, I mean scientific data that proves it’s a better bike than the previous one.
This one I’m a little bitter about because I fell for the marketing with the Tarmac SL8. I had an SL7 and bought into all the “data” about the SL8. And then I hopped on the SL8 and it was exactly the same bike as the SL7. You could have blindfolded me and maybe I could have picked them out. Such a tiny difference. I regret selling my SL7 and actually sold the SL8 within a few months because it never lived up to the expectations I had from all the marketing fluff.
I get that brands need to sell more bikes. But the pages and pages of the “scientific white papers” is just ridiculous.
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You ratioed the OP with this one 
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Do teams not license the jersey grafics including adverts? Are you not supporting the team by purchasing and wearing it.
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I have a pet peeve with physics. Specifically gravity and mass. 
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Are these independent statements, or intended to be connected?
You mentioned national champs in your post. You do realize that the current US gravel national champs rider, won on a titanium “non-race” bike…?
Is he allowed to wear a national champs jersey, even if it’s a legit one, or can he not wear it because his bike wasn’t carbon fiber?
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Elitism (particularly when I do it and notice it afterwards)
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Intrusive apostrophe’s
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Ignoring the jerks I’ve run into, including one that started calling me a faggot when I was not nice ENOUGH to him when I was trail running*. Everywhere I have seen ebikes, gas dirt bikes were soon to follow.
The ebikers think they are just mountain bikers. The electric dirt bikes just think they are ebikes. And then the dirt bikes don’t see a difference between them and electric dirt bikes, and now the trails are getting trashed.
This isn’t hyperbole. I stopped a guy for riding his dirt bike on a forest trails labeled as “no ebikes” and he said “but, this isn’t a dirt bike”. Because he was riding his ELECTRIC dirt bike with ELECTRIC bicycles, and saw no difference. And the roosts he was leaving begged to differ. I have now seen multiple SxS’s, never mind the gas dirt bikes.
I was fine with them on the trails when the only one I saw was my friend who would ride his 20 miles from home, ride with a group of bikes with the power set on minimum (or off), then ride 20 miles back home. But those times are long gone, and I am FIRMLY in the electric mountain bike hate because it does negatively effect me.
I saw a group coming down the trail, so I stepped aside and let the group pass. But this guy was upset that I wasn’t polite by saying hello as he passed.
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Yeah, that pretty much lines up with what I was saying where you end up disliking all ebike riders because of a few crappy people.
I do hear you on how it sucks that people are now riding small motorcycles on bicycle trails which is often unsafe and damages the trail too. I just don’t blame the guy riding the ebike and following normal mtb etiquette for the guy who’s rude or the one tearing up the trails on a motorcycle. I’ve met plenty of rude mtb’ers and roadies, but I don’t dislike all cyclists as a result. I do get how one bad apple can turn you off to the whole apple tree though.
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My only pet peeve with e-bikes is when people climb popular descending trails. They can’t do it on a regular bike but now with the super power boost try it. 
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