Patchelicious Posted December 1, 2015 Posted December 1, 2015 I was referring ot the higher level of control... and being able to properly feather them...Only Rossi would feather brakes when poo hits the fan. Rest of us tend to be a bit more grabby
raptor-22 Posted December 1, 2015 Author Posted December 1, 2015 There's no feathering when you see helmets sitting up and bikes slowing down abruptly for an unknown reason. Everyone is grabbing brakes and shouting so that the chaps behind slow down too. You've got min chance behind a MTB if they react like everyone else in the group. and road discs are not going to help much here since the braking force through a rigid road bike converts the vertical force into sliding forces quicker than a MTB with suspension and squishier tyres.
V12man Posted December 1, 2015 Posted December 1, 2015 If a guy on a MTB beat me in VA, I would simply kill myself.I have been clipped by Carbonboy before... back when we were in VA... luckily I don't take road racing seriously enough to commit harikiri...
V12man Posted December 1, 2015 Posted December 1, 2015 Sometimes its the bike, if i touch handle bars with the roadie next to me, I check out whats on his garmin screen and carry on. do that on a bike with a broomstick for a handle bar and you are picking tar from your arms. You maybe... I have skills... :ph34r: I just stay out the way....
Hairy Posted December 1, 2015 Posted December 1, 2015 Sometimes its the bike, if i touch handle bars with the roadie next to me, I check out whats on his garmin screen and carry on. do that on a bike with a broomstick for a handle bar and you are picking tar from your arms. bumped bars with a roadie bike this morning .... other rider flinched when his finger got crushed, stayed cool and calm ..... and we carried on with no drama.
Hairy Posted December 1, 2015 Posted December 1, 2015 you were racing this morning? any ride with friends = race
Tubehunter Posted December 1, 2015 Posted December 1, 2015 any ride with friends = race What time are you guys leaving town today? Cycling through to TV myself later? *Commuter racing is bad for training
Hairy Posted December 1, 2015 Posted December 1, 2015 What time are you guys leaving town today? Cycling through to TV myself later? *Commuter racing is bad for training5:15pm under the bridge at the railway bar thinga majig. https://www.google.co.za/maps/place/Train+Lodge/@-33.923985,18.4306084,20z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x0000000000000000:0xd20894ed1e76ac7f?hl=en
Tubehunter Posted December 1, 2015 Posted December 1, 2015 I'll be in Liberty kit at the Woodstock bridge a little later.
Edition 507 Posted December 1, 2015 Posted December 1, 2015 Back in the good old days I used to ride road races on my MTB purely to p*ss off the roadies. I loved that high pitch whine of square treaded MAXXIS Larsons at 60kph. I would even move up the bunch and/or over take on the gravel Somewhere, from many years back, I have a picture of me in some or another seeded road race bunch on my MTB in a tie dye t-shirt. But I have since matured a bit and don't do such dumb things anymore.I do however have two points of view on this:If you race seeded then bring the right f**cking equipment to the race. Seeding=speed=fast time <> MTB.If you ride open then by all means ride a MTB because, with great generalization of course, the open riders are inexperienced with limited bike skills and often feel more secure riding a slow bike with fat tyres while sitting bolt upright, as opposed to wobbling barely in control on an ill-fitting road bike with marie biscuit wheels. In fact if I was ever to ride in an open bunch then I would deliberately take my MTB so that I could hit the gravel or hop pavements and/or crashed novices and their bikes, in order to avoid danger (not too mention the stopping power of a good set of MTB discs).So seeded racing = road bike only (don't be a tjop like me)Open riding = whatever
Pikey Posted December 1, 2015 Posted December 1, 2015 any ride with friends = race ???????????? even if they don't know it????
NixM Posted December 1, 2015 Posted December 1, 2015 Tangent uncle! You're on your own one bru! Having rock garden skills counts for nought when you're doing silky, buttery, smooth pacing efforts with a cohesive crew...Unless the 99er has another gravel stretch!
Tubehunter Posted December 1, 2015 Posted December 1, 2015 ???????????? even if they don't know it????What an eventful commuter race! Hairy and I locked bars at one point... Some pushing and shoving ensued! There was a sprint interval, a wipeout in the group, the group got fractured and one went off the front, but we finished the event dragging a skateboarder back home who misjudged the wind and got caught out trying to get home upwind!
Tubehunter Posted December 1, 2015 Posted December 1, 2015 Unless the 99er has another gravel stretch!Haha, doubt there will be silky smooth buttery group pacing going on through the gravel stretch Nix! See you at the 99er?
Hairy Posted December 1, 2015 Posted December 1, 2015 I'll be in Liberty kit at the Woodstock bridge a little later.was nice bumping handle bars with you today tube!
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