Distancing in flat parts of Mantes-La-Jolie - Orléans

[JoeLag]

Nikeboy, is there some engine change / bug fix in place since this race? Today happened something unexplainable.

Race Report

I only can speak for my own cyclists. At the beginning of the last section the peloton consisted of 35 cyclists. 4 of these 35 got dropped in the last section and lost 34 seconds ... without fall or flat. 2 of them mine:

• Rocchino Venturato
• Timon Galus

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Obviously they stayed in the peloton in the very long section 12. How could they lose the peloton in the much shorter section 16 - without flat or fall?

[kurtinsc]

Did the peloton shrink?

If slower riders fell off the back between the two sectios, then the overall peloton speed may reasonably be faster.

I know I've had some riders who can get away on the first mountain section in a mountain race, but not once the first mountain winnows out all the flat riders.

[NikeBoy]

May 20, 2013 12:50:30 GMT 1 JoeLag said:

Nikeboy, is there some engine change / bug fix in place since this race? Today happened something unexplainable.

Race Report

I only can speak for my own cyclists. At the beginning of the last section the peloton consisted of 35 cyclists. 4 of these 35 got dropped in the last section and lost 34 seconds ... without fall or flat. 2 of them mine:

• Rocchino Venturato
• Timon Galus

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Obviously they stayed in the peloton in the very long section 12. How could they lose the peloton in the much shorter section 16 - without flat or fall?

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Nothing changed in the engine !

[JoeLag]

Anyway: This must change soon. It's very unrealistic that in a 500 km race with 100 flat sections all cyclists stay in the peloton whereas as soon that you have any single race section >= 20 km distancing is unavoidable.