Originally Posted by LandLuger
It seems that the "freds" of the cycling world seem to be the most competitive. I'll go out on a weekend mock century ride and come up behind these lycra clad wannabes, and as soon as they see me they kick it up a bit like they were asleep or something. They just keep glancing back every minute checking out the distance. I just cruise along until they finally blowup and pull of to the shoulder of the road. It seems like the lowracer just screams, "race me" to these fellows.
Rich Pinto calls this tossing a grenade, and I found out about it after I'd had fun doing it a few times on my Corsa. What you do is adjust your speed to slowly go by a paceline. Once you go past the front of the paceline, gap them by 50-100 yards, then slowly wick your speed up, most the time the paceline falls apart around 27-30, as the strong riders want to chase and the slower guys can't hang. By falling apart they loose any aero advantage that they have and you smoke them.
Of course the drool factor of a Velokraft is pretty high, so of course they want to race seeing all that carbon fiber.