Originally Posted by
rebel1916
I just genuinely don't understand this. If a group of riders is planning on working as hard as possible, why should they have to take an unscheduled easy day because some mook decides to tag along that morning? And I say this as a B ride type guy whou would be way more likely to get dropped rather than do the dropping.
It's the psychology of it that I feel is un-necessary. When a group goes through the extra effort to try to ditch a new person, there's some testosterone at play. I've witnessed this from within the group doing the dropping. The starting pace was noticeably higher then our normal rides, with more attacks early on. I've heard of this in other groups. I guess one approach is to consider it a form of initiation or test for the new person.
There's a difference between what I'm talking about and someone dropping from the group's normal pace.