Originally Posted by
needmoreair
So if it comes down to a cat 4 asking for advice on when to attack and having the choice of making all of these "smart attack" attempts hoping to pull off a rare winning break or sitting in and learning how to sprint (the most useful thing you can possibly do when trying to move up the ranks), I would say 100% of the time to sit in and go for it.
The only exception being in relation to my first post; and that is when strong riders make a strong move on a very difficult part of the race.
There you go generalizing again. With a qualifier of course. Winning sprints is about skill, positioning, and genetics. You can teach some of this but you can't teach genetics. Some of us, I'd say an awful lot of us, will never be competitive sprinters. That doesn't make us diesels, either. There are so many ways to win a bike race. Reducing it to two is myopic.