Originally Posted by grolby

Huh? Pack riding skills, definitely. Bike handling, not necessarily. Track bikes are designed specifically to NOT change direction very well, since tracks don't have corners and huge deviations from your line in a race will pretty much take out the whole pack. No offense meant to the OP, I'm not suggesting trackies can't handle their bikes at all! Just that cornering on downhills is completely different from what you do in a scratch race or keirin.