christofu
Pavement Inspector
Opinions please.
If you can execute a pass "cleanly" in race is it always fine to do so?
I've found myself in situations where I've come up beside someone under brakes and found that my angle of entry to the turn is a little tighter than I can manage at normal speed, so I slow it down to get around. To stop the person I just passed from getting back around I've found myself deliberately positioning my bike in such a way as to stop them from diving back under and then I run them wide.
It's a clean, safe pass (no-one is about to collide and crash) but I feel afterwards as though it wasn't very sportsmanlike.
Mostly likely places for me to do this are T7 and (the new) T11 at SP.
Is this something I should be thinking about less?
If you can execute a pass "cleanly" in race is it always fine to do so?
I've found myself in situations where I've come up beside someone under brakes and found that my angle of entry to the turn is a little tighter than I can manage at normal speed, so I slow it down to get around. To stop the person I just passed from getting back around I've found myself deliberately positioning my bike in such a way as to stop them from diving back under and then I run them wide.
It's a clean, safe pass (no-one is about to collide and crash) but I feel afterwards as though it wasn't very sportsmanlike.
Mostly likely places for me to do this are T7 and (the new) T11 at SP.
Is this something I should be thinking about less?