Beautiful vid of Echelon double paceline
03-01-11, 09:14 AM
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elbow?
how about your voice. or a gentle nudge.
how about your voice. or a gentle nudge.
03-01-11, 10:09 AM
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the kind of training rides are normally do involve 3-13 riders. most are friends.
while friends may elbow friends in texas, they don't where i live.
while friends may elbow friends in texas, they don't where i live.
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I can remember three times I touched a rider on a group ride last year. Two were incidental contact in sprints. Goes with the territory. The other one was with a new rider to the group while riding two-up. He wasn't real comfortable riding in the gutter and kept moving his way over closer to me. I gave him a two-finger touch on the shoulder and told him to try and stay in his line. He said he wasn't comfortable so far to the right, so I suggested that we switch places, and all was well.
03-01-11, 11:10 AM
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if you need to elbow someone on your training ride, theyre doing it wrong.
needless to say if someone needs a nudge, for safety's sake, so be it. Theres plenty of occasion where Ive put a hand on a hip... I just wouldnt consider elbowing 'the norm' for a training ride. Nor would I want it to be.
03-01-11, 11:17 AM
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I much prefer a hand on my hip than a yell. YMMV.
03-09-11, 10:03 AM
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Agreed. Hand on hip tells me you are there, I won't move over on you, nothing needs to be spoken. Better yet, show me your front wheel.
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03-09-11, 10:20 AM
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Where do you find the room for something like that, or is it a closed course? I really never have been in a group with people intentionally peeling off both sides in rotation. Seems like the fitness variability supports just ramping up the pace until there's a group that circles and another group that surfs the back.
03-09-11, 10:24 AM
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I can remember three times I touched a rider on a group ride last year. Two were incidental contact in sprints. Goes with the territory. The other one was with a new rider to the group while riding two-up. He wasn't real comfortable riding in the gutter and kept moving his way over closer to me. I gave him a two-finger touch on the shoulder and told him to try and stay in his line. He said he wasn't comfortable so far to the right, so I suggested that we switch places, and all was well.
Nobody should be forced to the gutter during a group ride....
03-09-11, 11:12 AM
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03-09-11, 03:51 PM
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WR, you never did the Gateway ride or Bustop ride? They double paceline the entire length of highway 36 to Lyons, and the Gateway ride gets up to 75+ people.
03-09-11, 04:00 PM
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Wow. I thought we got some heavy crosswinds around here. That was insane.
03-09-11, 04:43 PM
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I like the part where the guy in the gutter has trouble getting his bike on the ground and a leg over it.
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03-09-11, 04:50 PM
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If you can't ride in a crosswind, don't go to Europe.
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https://ludb.clui.org/ex/i/CA4977/
The wind and climbing makes it a great place for training.
