GingerAvenger wrote:
trail wrote:
rmt wrote:
Actually, rule 3.2.056 states that a catching rider may not ride in the slipstream of his opponent, on pain of disqualification, so there is a strong argument that the Danes should have been disqualified before the catch actually occurred.Except that you cannot ride up into the wheel of the rider that you are catching in a time trial. You have to leave a lateral gap of 2 meters to either side while approaching. UCI road rules 2.4.018. Failure to do this results in a variable time penalty from the table in 2.12.007. The UCI does not stipulate a distance behind that this later gap must be established by. USAC does though.
For USAC: rule 2E6.(b) "No rider shall take pace behind another rider closer than 25 meters (80 feet) ahead or 2 meters (7 feet) to the side. (c) No two riders may ride abreast other than when attempting to pass and such attempts shall not be maintained beyond a distance of 500 meters. If the pass is not made cleanly within 500 meters, the caught rider must drop back to a distance 25 meters behind the rider who caught him."
Standard US lane width is 12 feet. Good luck with this in some instances of TT's where the pavement is shit in the right couple feet of the lane.
I think with TT's, participation is low enough and it's started off a minute apart you don't get the same drafting bullshit that triathlon gets into with the mass or wave starts.
I'm guessing the math on the minute apart start versus how much of a speed delta you'd need to actually catch a rider would mean the pass rule is kind of moot anyway. You'll fly on by.
