Originally Posted by operator
Wow that's insightful. That's like saying if people can't drive without ever causing accidents they should walk instead.
That is correct. Maybe they should be walking.
But for a pace line, having 100% newbs doing a paceline is just plain stupid. Yes you need to do it to learn how to do it. But you should be one newbie out of 5 or 10 experienced people doing the pace line, not one of many inexperienced people on the same pace line.
By the way, it is common to yell one's intentions not to use hand signals. "Car up", "car back", "stopping", "slowing", etc....