Out on my road bike for a spin tonight and had a dodgy bloke on an ATB puffing and panting along behind me.I slowed down but he didn’t seem to have the gas to go past,or maybe he just liked my lycra. The noise of him weazing along really spoiled a nice night.
🙂

Snigger

I know,it looked like a Scott Spark 😉

He didn’t have the gas to go past or you didn’t have the gas to drop him? 😉

He didn’t have the gas to go past or you didn’t have the gas to drop him?

There were no winners here… 🙁

Lmfao! 😀

I wonder how long you’d been getting a tow in my ample slipstream beforehand 😉

You have mentioned your road bike lycra and someone wheezing on his ATB.

:Kudos:

He didn’t have the gas to go past or you didn’t have the gas to drop him?

I kept slowing down but I think he was updating his facebook status or some nonsense,all the time sounding like someone on the edge of asphyxiation. I still think it was my lycra 😯

I don’t really get the whole attitude toward people ‘wheelsucking’.

Slipstreaming is more efficient
If he’s on a mountain bike, he’s unlikely to be faster than you head-to-head (if he is, shame on you!) and so he’s not really going to want to do his ‘time in the wind’
If he wants to look at your bum and make his life (and yours*) easier by slipstreaming, so be it.

*apparently even the person at the front of a group gets a minor aero advantage by others trailing in their slipstream. Source: Chris Boardman told me on the TdF.

I reckon Chris is wrong or his argument doesn’t apply in most cases. I can feel the backwards pull of a big lorry or bus before it overtakes me on the open road, transitioning into a gentle tow as/after it passes.

Maybe it’s different in a race team with all riders in aero crouches and riding within centimetres of each others wheels. Kind of like doubling the length and weight of your car and fitting a second engine vs having two cars. Both engines would benefit, but only because the airflow is properly uninterrupted.

Probably not the case for most of us, most of the time.

You’re bound to feel increased wind as a bus or lorry passes you; that’s the air they are displacing rushing along the sides to fill the vacuum behind them so it will be moving slightly faster than your own air.

What happens if you’re in front and you let rip a fart of magnificent proportions?

You’re bound to feel increased wind as a bus or lorry passes you; that’s the air they are displacing rushing along the sides to fill the vacuum behind them so it will be moving slightly faster than your own air.

Thats why dual carriageway timetrials are quick if there are lots of big vehicles ,got a good tow of 3 coaches in convoy the other week 😆

What happens if you’re in front and you let rip a fart of magnificent proportions then follow through into your skinsuit ?

FIFY

You probably come here and start a thread about it.

Yeah it’s a bind isn’t it? I gave some bloke a piggy back for a couple of miles yesterday when I was out for my run…..

To some folk on this thread…

* WHOOSH!!! *

I know 🙄

I shouldn’t have bothered ,my thread linking comedy skills must be none existent too subtle 🙂

A bloke passed me on my commute yesterday, about 500m from my door. I thought bugger that, I’ll nick a nice toe home but going over a drain cover he heard my panniers rattle, stepped on the gas and dropped me 😆 I must admit to feeling a little guilty 😳

Cheers,
Jamie

Toe home? 😆

A rider directly behind you takes your drag wake. A truck is a different matter entirely!

only if there is no interruption to the air flow pattern between you and that rider.

double post

Let me guess, you posted twice so the first one pulls the second one along faster?

Toe home?

Camel toe? Slightly bigger lycra required sir 😀