Cippo Posted February 5, 2017 Share Just an observation: The PPA marshal at the start explained the rules very well to the league riders. Still numerous VC, VB and probably VA riders hitched a free ride with the A batch to potentially get away from their bunch or to catch up with their bunch. I just don't understand why you even sign up to ride league if you have zero regard for the rules anyway. This is cheating plain and simple. I am not a league rider but started in A batch and this was just something I observed. Did not have any impact on my race but probably on the honest riders in their league groupsThe A group guys that were caught were actually guys that got dropped from what I saw, I could have not seen everything, nonetheless as you say it is not allowed. The main A bunch was far ahead of VA afaik. Another thing that was explained by marshal was cutting across the white line would not be tolerated. I saw most of the VA , VB bunch ride most of the way in the middle and regularly someone would cross the line. This is not allowed and dangerous as there was no full road closure. I cringed a few times seeing riders cross the line on a rise with traffic coming in opposite direction. When I drove up behind A bunch on the R44 as well the same was been done and it seemed purely to gain a place further up in peleton. Edited February 5, 2017 by Cippo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mamil Posted February 5, 2017 Share Was your mom on the 72? Are you going to tell me she beat me? My mom beat her. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pure Savage Posted February 5, 2017 Share Was your mom on the 72? Are you going to tell me she beat me? She was on the 124km, did a 4:34 I think. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Mamil 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Breezer Posted February 5, 2017 Share The A group guys that were caught were actually guys that got dropped from what I saw, I could have not seen everything, nonetheless as you say it is not allowed. The main A bunch was far ahead of VA afaik. Another thing that was explained by marshal was cutting across the white line would not be tolerated. I saw most of the VA , VB bunch ride most of the way in the middle and regularly someone would cross the line. This is not allowed and dangerous as there was no full road closure. I cringed a few times seeing riders cross the line on a rise with traffic coming in opposite direction. When I drove up behind A bunch on the R44 as well the same was been done and it seemed purely to gain a place further up in peleton.It is the other way around. The a bunch caught some lone riders of the earlier start groups and they hook onto the a bunch. We caught a small vc group just outside Wellington and some of them sticked with us till the end. Edited February 5, 2017 by Breezer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
'Dale Posted February 5, 2017 Share The A group guys that were caught were actually guys that got dropped from what I saw, I could have not seen everything, nonetheless as you say it is not allowed. The main A bunch was far ahead of VA afaik. Another thing that was explained by marshal was cutting across the white line would not be tolerated. I saw most of the VA , VB bunch ride most of the way in the middle and regularly someone would cross the line. This is not allowed and dangerous as there was no full road closure. I cringed a few times seeing riders cross the line on a rise with traffic coming in opposite direction. When I drove up behind A bunch on the R44 as well the same was been done and it seemed purely to gain a place further up in peleton.Yeah, the 'white wall' rule is broken lotsEspecially with the Cape Doc in office ???? ???? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stricker Posted February 6, 2017 Share What a Race...... Some numbers for those Interested Time +-3:20Avg Power = 229Normalized Power = 267@ 65 kg Next year this race should end top of Taal Monument..Can we get a partition going for this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
'Dale Posted February 6, 2017 Share What a Race...... Some numbers for those Interested Time +-3:20Avg Power = 229Normalized Power = 267@ 65 kg Next year this race should end top of Taal Monument..Can we get a partition going for this? More importantly, what was your sock type and length? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
City Cycling Athletic Club Posted February 6, 2017 Share According to FB he is new to league so was unaware of it. The team won nonetheless.he's been riding league since u16 , been riding o/seas where you sign on for every race you take part in. Pure Savage 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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