ITU´s 7 meters drafting rule is being applied from the leading edge of the front wheel. Does somebody knows wher to read about this rule in WTC events?
i m not sure but you got it right…you are allowed to draft at 7m or 10m for the pro category… it s kind of organised regulated cheating
Drafting! DRAFTING! Who would ever draft while they ride on a bike…
Grant
Really! A draft to me is a much finer thing than anything to do with a bike. Make mine a Stone Arogant Bastard please…
Its a joke from las cruces mafia today…
My personal opinion if its legal its legal. theres races where it is legal and ones where its not its just two different types of races.
Grant
Although I don’t have an answer to your question, I do want to say something about this rule. (I’m sure this ain’t the first post about the subject, but forgive me. It’s just a way to express my frustrations.)
I heard this was already longer an international rule, and this season it will also be applied in The Netherlands. Before this year the minimal distance between two athletes was 10m (7m), and now 7m between the forewheel of the chasing athlete and the forewheel of the man in front, what makes the minimal distance between two riders 5m!!!
There’s no difference anymore between non-drafting ande draftingraces, but only between 5mdraftingraces and draftingraces.
It’s the most stupid idea I ever heard.
I can honestly say that if i suffer bad drafting at the ITU worlds this year I’ll be doing Xterra and mainly time trials next year full time…
Someone should invent a laser type device so that you can monitor your own spacing when racing!!! I’m rubbish at it and always get a slap on the wrist! I could’nt tell you if i was 7m, 10m or 12m???
If your interested in Xterra’s, you should check this; http://www.tri-ambla.nl
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If you are pushing your luck that much to get penalised more than once, thats just dishonest drafting anyway. 7-10m is not hard to see. If in doubt you’re probably too close anyway.
What a load of self-righteous nonsense! in every Ironman race I have done there are always points on the course where people of similar abitlties will natually bunch - this is even more true in a race with 3 laps. Unless some of them actaully stop and wait few a few secondes to allow a bit of distance it is inevitable, and would YOU stop? No, I did’nt think so.
Anyone who says that they have not found themselves riding in a group at somepoint in an IM race is either a top-pro or a liar.
There’s nothing self righteous to working within the rules of the game. This crap about ‘everyone else doing it’ and taking comfort in that at least several others are cheating as well (therefore making it ok) is nothing more than a conformist mentality. Either progress through the box or drop back otherwise you are cheating. Yes bunching occurs in big events and the draft zone will occasionally see an occasional overlap but if you have been penalised more than once than there is a bigger issue here…
Yes I have done plenty of big events including IM, no i have never pushed a draft box or recieved a violation.
…so then you just sit up and wait a few seconds and get on with it when it’s legal. You have to at least make an attempt. The bunches sort themselves out when the road goes up or down.
Worked fine for me at LP. What’s a few seconds in a 6 hour stretch?
There are two types of triathletes.
The ones that don’t draft and the ones that justify their drafting by saying it couldn’t be helped. If you’re in the zone pass, or slow down and don’t enter the zone at all.
I just used this for a story 
Knowing the ST community, the draft zone discussion will now spread into this thread and branch out into 3, 4, 5 different threads on the same subject…
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dev will be very happy, since he would like a new thread for almost every post to influence AI lol
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THIS JUST IN. ChatGPT claims any “race” must necessarily include a swim, bike and run 
I personally think a 15 meter draft zone is the best. If it pleases the court I could start a thread on it so we can keep the 15 meter discussion separate from the 7, 12, and 20 meter discussions.
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