Let’s say you’re on the bike leg of a draft-illegal triathlon or duathlon. You’re an excellent cyclist, and you are going for a podium (overall or age group) spot. You’re there to win. You realize that one or more cyclists you pass have jumped on your wheel. You move left and right, you yell at them, they’re on you like scum on a pond. You see a pothole/large rock/cone/other road hazard ahead.
Question: do you take a path that will go very close to said hazard, or even head at it and swerve at the last minute?
I’ve never done this. I find that yelling usually does the trick (last year I had the overall female winner of a local tri draft me after I caught her, and follow me left and right of the white line; I yelled, and she backed off).
I think it is unethical to deliberately risk someone’s well-being in this case.
Did it. In Brazil last saturday I helped one guy on my wheel narrowly miss a cone. That cleared him off.
Next one comes along sits there…“off my wheel”…“Get off my wheel!”…“Get off my wheel!” He was American. I warned him in Portuguese and he was like “what?”. He actually was annoyed by me requesting him off my wheel! Out comes my 1/2 empty bottle in the front wheel. He falls back.
Next one…This guy sits on my wheel cruises to the next and on and on. As time goes by I pass him and he does it again. This happenned 3x in the race. On the 3rd I told him straight up that if I see him claiming a AG slot in my AG at the awards ceremony. I was gonna kick his MF’n ass in front of God and everybody. on up the road he went. I admit it was a bit much but I was pretty demoralized at was occuring that day.
My eyes tend to water when I ride so I have to blow my nose a lot. Also I have a couple water bottles that seem to shoot back over my shoulder. And that is just in group rides.
noted. It was something I did consider after I chilled out. It was stupid on my part I admit it. As a matter of fact a guy I’d had lunch with twice went down and broke his collarbone because of someone swirving to avoid a cone as he passed. It put the whole situation into perspective for me the next day.
I like the snot idea. A little spray from the water bottle can be effective too.
I’d grab my bottle, after sending a few snot missles (no rockets here, way to much drainage) at them, and turn point and shoot.
I gots to try the pee trick.
NO…Anothers actions should never change what your own would be. That is part of ethics.He may be an ass,but I refuse for that to make me one. Though it may be an eye for an eye,I do not wish to be treated that way.
In an IM or half, stand up and take a leak. That should do it. In a shorter race, snot rockets. Just weave to one side, turn your head to the inside and blow hard out of one nostril.
