Originally Posted by pelotonracer
wow... you gotta love BikeForums.
Some guy asks a simple question, & you get 15 posts saying "go look somewhere else".
For the record, basically its when riders, at start of the final sprint, play their cat-and-mouse game of who will lead it out.
Agreed.
Geez, what's the big deal?
Anyway...
Yeah....cat and mouse....neither guy wants to go for it just yet....so they check each other out, not pedaling at full effort by any means. Someone has to lead and someone has to follow. The guy following usually has the advantage because
A) The guy in back gets the draft
B) The guy in back gets the element of surprise in an attack
So they dance around each other trying to get that spot.
And many times while they fart around like that up front, the peloton is gaining much faster because they have slowed down up there playing games.