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tl; dr but whats all this talk of towing etc? 😆
I don't think I've ever had anyone hold my wheel for more than a hundred yards or so - and that includes pro riders
perhaps I'll start teaching "dropping other riders like a stone" on some of my more advanced courses
/scaredymtbguru
Where do I sign up 🙂
Greg Lemond had a surefire way of dropping slipstreamers.
He had gastric flu in one of the TDF's but followed rule 5 and raced anyway.
The rest of peleton wouldn't ride behind him.
"his sickness seeped out through his shorts and onto the back wheel, and sprayed a portion of the peleton"
Bit grim but would work 🙂
A good portion of [url= http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/comfart-foods-whats-yours ]bean feast[/url] the day before a ride would do the job 🙂
Be nicer than gastric flu 🙂
I put a thread on that about BeanFeast!
Ohh yes, fartystinkypants!
What's the policy on passing roadies when you're on your mtb? I've had that before and decided to hang backrrather than pass the old chap on his road bike. If it happened in reverse it'd take the wind right out of mysails
Dunno, I think its fair game, and they'll either let you go, or try to hang on, some people are simply faster, eventually you get passed by someone, just be polite and give a nod and a smile when you do.
I had a fella come past me on my commute the other day, me on my fixed road bike, 10 miles into my 14 mile commute, him on shiny MTB (unstickered scandal 29er I think), and pretty fresh As he'd just pulled on to the road in the village I'd just gone through, Anyway he drafts me for a couple of miles, then passes me, I give him a cheery smile and a "morning" and he just blanks me, I'm expecting him to now just obliterate me, as being so rude must be accompanied by total awesomeness surely.
I think He thought he was going to stamp me out as well, but instead he just sits there at about the same pace I was already doing, flicking his rear mech up and down one sprocket every 15 seconds for no apparent reason so I pull his trick and draft him for the next mile and a half, have to hang back when he decided to just ignore the cars and blast through a roundabout, but I catch him back up pretty quickly after that, then a quarter of a mile from work, I pull past him, and wring it out a bit till I turn off, I hear some muttering as I pull off, but bollocks to him, didn't have the manners to just give a nod, and clearly hadn't quite figured out that sitting in front (especially on an MTB) is more work than sitting on my wheel.
I don't normally get drawn into commuter racing, especially on the fixie as neither it nor I am built for such things, but this fella just annoyed me with his lack of manners I'm sure I,ll encounter him again...
Reminds me of 2 incidents:
1) A colleague was going to ride with me on our commutes on the way home, both set off from work at the same time, I shot off down one of the hills and waited for him to catch up, unfortunately he'd taken the shared use, and then mistook someone else for me. Got a response text messaged to "Where are you?" that read "Mistook someone else for you, caught his wheel and he put the power down, never gone so fast before, was at the bridge before I realised he wasn't you"
2) Passed someone "taking it easy" through Tayport on an extended ride home, I was surprised to suddenly feel the push you get when someone's on your wheel. I sped up, still there, faster, still there, Kirkton Barns rise, he takes the front, OHSHAF**** Fixie, he's hammering it up the hill, now it's me hanging on. Get to the top and I take over, haul him along the first of the flat bits, he takes the wee rise before the last straight, I start hoping he's going down the Tentsmuir road, sadly he isn't and I drop off into the junction.
I wish all the locals rode like that.
As for overtaking on different bikes, it's the man not the machine, you just get extra food chain number points if you're playing the game.