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Old 06-22-10 | 12:41 PM
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Originally Posted by Val23708
These help a lot. My college team does a training session on a grass field and has practicies wheel touching , picking up waterbottles off the ground while moving, bike sumo (2 people drag race to a set of narrow cones while bumping), taking legwarmers off while riding, and traveling up the middle of a narrow double paceline.

Being able to recover from overlapping wheels is a very valuable skill. No one can do it 100% of the time (See Lance, Levi, Tour of California) But if you've practiced it, you have a much better chance of pulling it off.
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