Originally Posted by
asgelle
And remember this is a rule change that just came into effect this year. Until then it was perfectly legal, moral, ethical, what have you for a lapped rider to work in the break. As you say, lapped riders are allowed to sit in at the back of the break. I can't believe there is ever a discussion about this.
I'm looking at my 2008 rulebook and 3D4 says "Riders on different laps may work with each other, except that no rider may drop back to assist a rider who has broken away from the field [disqualification for accepting such assistance]" 3D3 is the same as quoted above. It's not new.