Opinion needed re: group riding

[aicabsolut]

7, that happens to me all the time, because I use the momentum to get me up the next hill. I'm heavy so I can go fast downhill, and I end up passing everyone else, usually. (I try to, so I won't waste any momentum. It annoys me to NO END if I have to brake going downhill!) Try as I might, I can't keep up the speed all the way up, so I end up being passed by everyone else again.

So, maybe old POP is just doing what he can--even though it seems to me he should just sit and spin instead of attacking.

Karen

Those are 2 different scenarios. You are practicing a good method of not getting dropped. Use your momentum where you can, and then stay to the side and drift towards the back on the hills (instead of starting behind and then getting spit waay off the back).

That is totally different from attacking at the base of a climb (regardless of the terrain leading into it) and then blowing up instead of picking a sustainable pace.

[Tuckervill]

Those are 2 different scenarios. You are practicing a good method of not getting dropped. Use your momentum where you can, and then stay to the side and drift towards the back on the hills (instead of starting behind and then getting spit waay off the back).

That is totally different from attacking at the base of a climb (regardless of the terrain leading into it) and then blowing up instead of picking a sustainable pace.

Oh, I see--he's trying to break off when he gets to a hill...not just attacking the hill to get up it!

Yeah, he's not very self-aware, is he?

Karen