Road Cycling - Holding your line vs riding the apex

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gruven
06-08-04, 08:30 PM
Are "holding your line" in a turn and riding through the apex of a curve mutually exclusive?
Riding the apex is purely for riding or descending with no one around you, not if you're in a group?

Smoothie104
06-08-04, 08:37 PM
It depends, if you are in a group, holding you line means not going to far either left or right, but following the flow of the road, while everybody else does the same.

If you are single file, and at speed. The fastest way through the corner is riding the apex. If you pull a stunt like that in a 3 abreast group, you are not holding you line, unless of course, you are in the front, then its your perogative.
cottonmather0
06-09-04, 12:31 PM
Yep, if you are in front then your line is whatever you may choose for it to be. If you are in the back then you have to 1.) adjust to whatever the guy in front is doing and 2.) be predictable to the guy behind you.

Ergo, it's always better to be in front :D