Racing: an honorable sporting event, or a back-alley knife fight?
06-23-09, 05:07 PM
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06-23-09, 05:43 PM
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I've raced about 20 times this year, and I remember a break only actually staying away in one of them and that was greatly helped by team tactics (my team had a guy in the break and was controlling the field pace) and a field neutralization. The next closest one was in a downtown city street course.
It should probably also be mentioned that I race at a lower level than you, and at the lower levels, the rider fitness levels that it takes to make a break stick are less common. YMMV.
06-23-09, 06:17 PM
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out walking the earth
I'm going to bow out of this. Racing isn't as one dimensional as the conversation needs it to be.
06-23-09, 06:17 PM
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out walking the earth
06-23-09, 06:55 PM
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aka mattio
06-23-09, 10:09 PM
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06-24-09, 03:27 AM
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out walking the earth
I don't know what it's like where you guys are, but guys do the three race around here to avoid the harder masters races. The races tend to have ones, former pros, national champs, and things like that.
06-24-09, 04:09 AM
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That is spot on for Florida, too. One theory that I have heard is that with so many smaller domestic pro squads failing the local P 1/2 races are getting harder, so some of the older guys do the 35+. Sort of turns the 35+ into P 1/2 lite. Good fun, though!
06-24-09, 06:32 AM
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gsteinb, fwiw, respect, you're a badass racer.
06-24-09, 07:44 AM
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out walking the earth
06-24-09, 07:49 AM
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speaking of treachery (rhetorically of course), a friend and teammate has been going out of his way to flick me, and f with me on training rides. last night he almost rode me into a curb.
this is his way to teach some tricks that i apparently did not know.
he's a good teacher, if not a little too enthusiastic.
this is his way to teach some tricks that i apparently did not know.
he's a good teacher, if not a little too enthusiastic.
Last edited by botto; 06-24-09 at 08:24 AM.
