Originally Posted by
Creakyknees
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.
When you breakaway, it should be treated as a home run swing. Big risk, big reward. A breakaway is a game, and part of it's art is finding the right one to get involved with and knowing when to initiate one on your own. To do this, you have to feel the "mood" of the field (some fields collectively chase everything, some fields will let stuff go, and the mood changes as the race progresses), and you have to race enough to know who's who in the field you are racing. On top of it all, you are going to commit to losing a lot of races until you figure it out.
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