Originally Posted by rubiksoval

yes, this is it.

To defend it (if you're so inclined. As mentioned, sometimes it's easier just to retake a wheel somewhere else) you drive your handlebar into the person's hip/thigh as you lean the other direction, or just reach up and push them off with your hand. Technically you're not supposed to do that. In real life that happens ad infinitum at the pointy end.

Keep in mind if you're doing things like that, it's good to be aware of who you're doing it to and at what point of the race. It's generally frowned upon to do that to someone on their teammate's wheel in a leadout situation unless they just let you do it (i.e., they don't belong there anyway). If you act too aggressively, too, it can really piss people off. Maybe not such a big deal in huge racing locales, but repeated behavior like that in local areas where you're racing the same people repeatedly can cause unneeded consternation and really come back to bite you in subsequent races.

And if you don't have 100% confidence that you can do these things safely (for you and everyone else), definitely don't do the stuff. At the end of the day, crashing is the last thing anyone wants to do. don't be a person that makes people even think that they're going to be crashed out.