Keep the good stuff coming, guys. I love it when you're breathing hard. You'll love it when I fine tune your gasps. Ted Ernst Palos Verdes Estates, CA
> Sage advice from jamie Swan:
> >
> > If you are below a guy you must stay even with
> > him to block him from diving down and getting a
> > good jump. If you have him all the way at the
> > top of the track and you can get your bars in
> > front of his then you can "pin him to the boards"
> > and he can't go any faster then you go. Don't
> > take your eyes off him though because he can stop
> > abruptly and go behind you and dive down that way.
>
> Nuts! Now you tell me what I had to be on guard against? I
> made that mistake twice this weekend at the Trexlertown
> Velodrome.
>
> Actually, I know what you're supposed to do but sometimes it's
> not so easy to execute. Anyway, I had two sprints in which I
> couldn't keep the guy on top properly pinned. In both cases I
> had to go back "on top" as I chased. I lost the first and won
> the second by about 6 inches.
>
> One thing to remember about going "on top" is that you have a
> longer distance to travel around the curve. Of course you get
> the benefit of the slipstream but, in order to pass, you still
> have to be spinning at a higher rate than an opponent who is
> also close to maxing out his (or her) spin. You might be close
> to losing control if all this is happening as you make the
> transition from the banking to the home straight.
>
> To make sure this stays on topic, let me recommend a trip to a
> velodrome if one is nearby. Since track bikes are so simple,
> the percentage of riders actually racing classic bikes or KOF
> bikes is quite high. What you sometimes see is that racers
> bring 2 bicycles to the race meet: newer "aero" framed
> thingies for the time trials and something like an old Cinelli,
> Raleigh, Motobecane, Atala or LeJeune for the sprints. Of
> course, in the old days you had one bike and one bike only.
> You might even have ridden it to the track, carrying some
> tools, spare tires and your alternate cogs in a backpack.
> Today, you simpy "must" also have aero bars, a disk wheel and
> Lord knows what else for the time trials and pursuit, so you
> also need to buy a new car to carry all this junk.
> Cheers,
> Fred Rednor - Arlington, Virginia (USA)
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