Originally Posted by
EL LUCHADOR
why do you suggest not being last in the group?? ie, are there disadvantages to that?
Last in the group is not as relaxing a place to be as it sounds, at least not if you genuinely try to stay with the pack. That's the place where the constant repetition of braking and accelerating is most pronounced, whether from corners or just from the little shifts in speed that happen with any terrain that's not dead flat. All of that slowing and speeding up gets amplified as you go back in the pack. Consequently, the only "easy" riding to be had back there is when you decide to watch them ride away from you.