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There's 3, about a minute up the road. No clubmate with them.
Do you sit in and wait for the sprint for 4th place
9%
 9%  [ 6 ]
Do everything you can to get across even if it means you fail and come 44th absolutel goosed.
42%
 42%  [ 28 ]
Try to organise a chase
31%
 31%  [ 21 ]
Hope someone else organises a chase
16%
 16%  [ 11 ]
Total Votes : 66

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PostPosted: Sun Mar 16, 2008 9:27 am    Post subject: There's 3 up the road..... Reply with quote

No fibbing please....
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 16, 2008 9:30 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I went for the second option, but that would have been in the seventies/eighties, if you know what I mean. Smile
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 16, 2008 9:35 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Seeing as I would be dangling off the back, none of these options are suitable for me Crying or Very sad
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 16, 2008 9:36 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Could you add an option for me please? "Sit in, hang on and hope you don't get dropped and then lapped". Thanks.
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 16, 2008 9:37 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

De Rosa wrote:
Could you add an option for me please? "Sit in, hang on and hope you don't get dropped and then lapped". Thanks.


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I'm with you on that one Guy
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 16, 2008 9:41 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

and when I'm organising I expect people to do as they're told! Laughing
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 16, 2008 10:07 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

How long you got left in the race?
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 16, 2008 10:26 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Race profile?
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 16, 2008 10:37 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

You missed the most obvious option which I saw enacted only yesterday to partial success:-

[] Sit in and wait till the leaders come up to lap your bunch, when you can assist your team-mates in the break
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 16, 2008 10:49 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Tell that old 'experienced' guy who's trying to organise you lifelong 4th cats, to shut the f*ck up Shocked

and continue to aimlessly jump 50 metres off the front then sit up and swear at the guy that chases you down then sits up Confused

then not sprint 'cos "them fr!gg!n 4th cats are to dangerous" Wink
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 16, 2008 10:51 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

option 4, be one of the three.
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 16, 2008 11:24 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Option 5 - Pack, go home and have a nice deep bath.
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 16, 2008 11:36 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Voted to try and organise chase - I have to qualify this and add that doesn't involve me doing any work!
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 16, 2008 11:52 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Talk to a couple of other riders and organise an attack together to form a chasing group of 3-4.
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 16, 2008 11:59 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

KJ wrote:
Race profile?


9 laps, 1lap = 9km with a horrible 3% false flat (climb) for 2.5km every lap. Then 1km flat, 1km fairly steep downhill then 4.5km pan flat and straight to bottom of climb. Finish line at top of climb.

(Matt - break went on 5th lap)
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 16, 2008 3:19 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I have done all four so you need another option, once I was so wild I didnt care who was on my wheel. I have never jumped across and won, normally the effort kills me, I have forced a chase and won the sprint, sitting in is not for me anymore though, if I have it or think I might then I must use it.
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 16, 2008 6:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Were you at Dunton yesterday, Plurien? It almost got messy, with the break mixed in with the bunch at the finish, and then another rider who decided he didn't want to be there in the sprint, and shot diagonally out of the bunch, I was suprised that he didn't taken anyone's front wheel out in doing so.
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 16, 2008 7:55 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Option 3 followed by a period of anger directed at those who chose option 4 and then resign myself to sitting in for the sprint.....

As seen as saighton today
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 16, 2008 9:54 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

officer bob wrote:
Tell that old 'experienced' guy who's trying to organise you lifelong 4th cats, to shut the f*ck up Shocked

and continue to aimlessly jump 50 metres off the front then sit up and swear at the guy that chases you down then sits up Confused

then not sprint 'cos "them fr!gg!n 4th cats are to dangerous" Wink


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PostPosted: Sun Mar 16, 2008 10:06 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'd choose option two. Although there there was a bloke round these parts who was as strong as an ox but could never get in a break: He'd just tow the whole race back up to them instead.....And come 44th. The best option is to organise a chase group and then sit on the back of it whilst they tow you across.
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