I Made a Deal in a Bike Race
Trying to understand the subculture here, and failing. If I understand correctly, during a very important bike race the author made a verbal deal with his competitor near the end of the race, and the competitor broke that verbal deal.<p>Let me hasten to say that had I made such a deal, I wouldn’t have broken it.<p>But shouldn’t the author have assumed that his competitor was playing mind games? If I understand correctly there are no rules against deals like this. And I imagine there are no rules against lying to your competitor.<p>I would feel if I were in the author’s place that I had allowed myself to be taken advantage of, that I had trusted a competitor, which is generally speaking not a good idea in a race like that.<p>It seems to me this is the author saying he trained physically for the race but got hoodwinked by someone he by nature should not trust.<p>Or is there something about the subculture I’m missing?