Timeline for Group ride - Proper descent etiquette
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| Jun 16, 2022 at 21:11 | comment | added | Andrew Henle | @Mohair When you get a UCI-sanctioned cycling license and actually do mass-start races THEN you can lecture about the "reality" of riding fast in groups. Until then, you are giving DANGEROUS advise because, frankly, you don't know what the hell you're talking about. | |
| Jun 16, 2022 at 20:41 | history | edited | Mohair | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
clarified the transition from pulling to descending
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| Jun 16, 2022 at 20:18 | comment | added | Mohair | @AndrewHenle When you go down a descent with a group, several things happen. First, the speed of all riders, including the lead rider, will increase. Second, the space between riders increases. Third, riders decrease their pedaling because it takes less effort or even no effort go as fast. That's the reality. Watch a pro race sometime, when they start a descent. No one sits up at the head of the "paceline" as you describe. No one slows as you describe. Everyone relaxes because they can coast and keep the same speed. Some riders stay in the pack. Some jump out and go faster. That's reality. | |
| Jun 16, 2022 at 19:59 | comment | added | Andrew Henle | @Mohair The paceline was already running, and the person who knows the least about the status of the paceline is the lead rider. There's no way you can get around it: this answer is giving dangerous advise. "Slow down at the head of a paceline"?!?!! Seriously? Like I said - descent or not is utterly irrelevant. If the group is in a paceline, the group is in a paceline. How about you try sitting up just once for a few seconds without rolling off at the head of a paceline and see how everyone reacts. You'll get your head ripped off. | |
| Jun 16, 2022 at 18:45 | comment | added | Mohair | @AndrewHenle Which is precisely why you don't try to run pacelines on a descent. | |
| Jun 16, 2022 at 18:27 | comment | added | Andrew Henle | @WeiwenNg But that will work only after it's downright obvious to everyone that the paceline has broken up. And the rider on the front is going to be the last to know. | |
| Jun 16, 2022 at 18:22 | comment | added | Andrew Henle | Rider A should have stayed where they were and let whoever wanted to go faster pass them on the left. Won't work in a paceline situation, and being in a descent doesn't matter. No one is a paceline is looking to move left until they get to the front, do their pull, and roll off. Stay where you are, let the faster riders go around you OH HELL NO. No one will ever be expecting someone at the front of a paceline to just slow down and not roll off. That's downright dangerous advice, and very likely to be the direct cause of a multi-bike crash at speed. | |
| Jun 16, 2022 at 15:43 | comment | added | Weiwen Ng | This may depend on the descent. The context implies that this was a relatively short and shallow one where it’s feasible and arguably preferred to stay together. For an extended and/or steep descent, I’d agree. | |
| Jun 16, 2022 at 15:23 | history | answered | Mohair | CC BY-SA 4.0 |