Originally Posted by
Wylde06
This is pretty big, I think. Ive gotten to know quite a few people on different teams, and even tried to plan something with one of the guys in a crit (but of course my legs had other plans once the race started and I couldn't execute). I've even raced with another team when I was the only guy on my team at a race and I knew half of the other team that showed up with like 6 guys.
Don't be a dick and you will start to make "informal alliances" without even really trying, at least in my experience...which may or may not be worth anything.
The opposite also happens. Like you start to learn who is that one guy who attacks every race with 8 to go, makes it a quarter lap, explodes, then gets dropped. After awhile, everyone just starts letting him go.