Originally Posted by thunder

Classic, agreed. If you read what all of what I wrote, I was saying sprinting is inherently dangerous, and the best sprinters don't think about the holes and line available to them, even if they are crossing wheels with someone behind. Since when did a sprinter look behind before they jumped for a hole. You look or think and it is almost race over.

Originally Posted by ed073

+1

neatly encapsulates the fundamental difference between someone who actually understands bike racing and someone who's "knowledge" comes from watching racing on TV