Originally Posted by GGDub
Say, about as rude as sucking someone's wheel and not taking a turn on the front? And how is this less rude than the brake-n-clear technique? It's not that I can't ride with someone on my wheel, I do that every april to september with road racing. My point is, if you want to be competitive on a bicycle, grow some nards (or ovaries whichever is the case), join a club and start racing. Doing it on the MUP eventually ends up with some butthead running over an old lady which here in Calgary, brings out the bike cops to enforce the insanely low 20km/h speed limit.
I agree with you that racing is not for the MUP's but it is for the streets. I tried riding with a club but the politics and egos that dictated a 'pecking order' trying to hold me back on training rides so that weaker riders with 'seniority' in the club don't look bad.
It seems that if you (or worse, your father) own a bike shop and sponsor a few riders you have a ticket to never have to take a pull, and not be dropped and made to look bad, what a joke. I hooked up with some B and C graders and we organised our own training rides which was really good for a while untill the rest of the club found out and the politics killed it.
Anyhow, my new bike is not UCI legal with the cowhorn bars and aerobars
