Originally Posted by
Brian Ratliff
Why would you, if you are flying solo, cover any attack? If you are a sprinter, you let others do the work of covering the attack, if you are a breakaway rider, you find the one that sticks and bridge. Even flying solo, there are ways of racing against larger teams. To each his own I guess, but really there are ways of factoring in a race even if you don't have any teammates.
Sounds great in the comfort of my chair... not so easy to tell in the heat of the race which move is "the move" and not so easy to bridge sometimes... now consider the possibility the stacked team has 3 or 4 riders capable of winning, and you just blew your wad bridging to one move that for some reason is coming back, and here comes the counter with the other protected guy and a couple teammates.
But you knew that already.