I just saw the movie "American Flyer". There is a scene at the end where two cyclists are at the front of the race and one cyclist deliberately leans into another cyclist over an extended period clearly trying to make him crash. I have seen tapes of actual races where sprinters are relegated to last place when they engage in “dangerous sprinting”. So here are my questions:
1. Wouldn’t an official be in position to see such behavior at the front of a race and penalize the cyclist who is deliberately attempting to wreck the other.
2. If a cyclist was regularly so dirty…wouldn’t his fellow peleton members have already taken care of him long before he even got to that position. After all, such a rider would be a threat to the earnings and lives of all the peleton members.
I've never raced, so I'm looking for the opinions of people who have.
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[email hidden] (Matt Cahill) wrote in :"]news:[email hidden]:
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I just saw the movie "American Flyer". There is a scene at the end where two cyclists are at the front of the race and one cyclist deliberately leans into another cyclist over an extended period clearly trying to make him crash. I have seen tapes of actual races where sprinters are relegated to last place when they engage in “dangerous sprinting”. So here are my questions:
1. Wouldn’t an official be in position to see such behavior at the front of a race and penalize the cyclist who is deliberately attempting to wreck the other.
Yes.
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2. If a cyclist was regularly so dirty…wouldn’t his fellow peleton members have already taken care of him long before he even got to that position. After all, such a rider would be a threat to the earnings and lives of all the peleton members.
Yes.
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I've never raced, so I'm looking for the opinions of people who have.
Don't let this type of behaviour scare you off. Like others have said, its mostly just for the movies. You will almost never see this type of thing happen (at least intentionally) in a real race.
I just saw the movie "American Flyer". There is a scene at the end where two cyclists are at the front of the race and one cyclist deliberately leans into another cyclist over an extended period clearly trying to make him crash. I have seen tapes of actual races where sprinters are relegated to last place when they engage in “dangerous sprinting”. So here are my questions:
1. Wouldn’t an official be in position to see such behavior at the front of a race and penalize the cyclist who is deliberately attempting to wreck the other.
Yes.
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2. If a cyclist was regularly so dirty…wouldn’t his fellow peleton members have already taken care of him long before he even got to that position. After all, such a rider would be a threat to the earnings and lives of all the peleton members.
Yes.
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I've never raced, so I'm looking for the opinions of people who have.
Don't let this type of behaviour scare you off. Like others have said, its mostly just for the movies. You will almost never see this type of thing happen (at least intentionally) in a real race.
- Boyd S.
...and at the level he'd be racing, if someone tried a stunt like that, half the pack would fall over!
Don't let this type of behaviour scare you off. Like others have said, its mostly just for the movies. You will almost never see this type of thing happen (at least intentionally) in a real race.
- Boyd S.
Many years ago I participated in a cat-4 criterium where someone in front of me did this leaning. He'd apparently had just watched the movie. It was silly; we were at least one kilometer from the finish, it was a peloton of maybe 20 spread out across a wide road. I remember thinking, "Oh, there's the designated squirrel of the day."
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[email hidden] (Matt Cahill) wrote in :"]news:[email hidden]:
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I just saw the movie "American Flyer". There is a scene at the end where two cyclists are at the front of the race and one cyclist deliberately leans into another cyclist over an extended period clearly trying to make him crash.
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Don't let this type of behaviour scare you off. Like others have said, its mostly just for the movies. You will almost never see this type of thing happen (at least intentionally) in a real race.
- Boyd S.
You've never ridden a Highland Games grass track meet then, Boyd? "This type of behaviour" is compulsory there.
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[email hidden] (Matt Cahill) wrote in :"]news:[email hidden]:
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I just saw the movie "American Flyer". There is a scene at the end where two cyclists are at the front of the race and one cyclist deliberately leans into another cyclist over an extended period clearly trying to make him crash. I have seen tapes of actual races where sprinters are relegated to last place when they engage in “dangerous sprinting”. So here are my questions:
1. Wouldn’t an official be in position to see such behavior at the front of a race and penalize the cyclist who is deliberately attempting to wreck the other.
Yes.
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2. If a cyclist was regularly so dirty…wouldn’t his fellow peleton members have already taken care of him long before he even got to that position. After all, such a rider would be a threat to the earnings and lives of all the peleton members.
Yes.
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I've never raced, so I'm looking for the opinions of people who have.
Don't let this type of behaviour scare you off. Like others have said, its mostly just for the movies. You will almost never see this type of thing happen (at least intentionally) in a real race.
But do be careful of opponents jamming a frame pump into your front wheel.
