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Thanks a lot. Truly grateful I didn't have to go to TTF for this.
I think I'd be a half decent TT'er off my power but I don't like the idea of riding on dual carriageways, let alone riding primary to get myself in the draft.
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riding primary to get myself in the draft
Riding primary isn't for the draft, if anything it cuts it because if forces people to overtake properly rather than squeezing past in your lane. The accusation involved being about 6 inches to the left of the lane dividing line, which even I don't think is OK, and a strict interpretation of the CTT regulations will get you a ban for primary.
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People are casting aspersions on his road positioning, basically the same accusation which got King Alf a ban back in the olden days. By riding on the right hand side of the left lane of a dual carriageway, you are close to all the motor traffic overtaking you, so you maximise the draught. With a bit of luck, your aggressive positioning also makes everybody slow down to 40mph, which when you're doing 37mph means you're in the tow for a long time. Compare a normal primary position, with traffic passing at 50, and you have reduced your differential by 10mph which is huge, and you've got at least a metre closer to the centre of the wake, which is equally huge. It's not like he hasn't been called out on it before, either, and this time a random motorist has taken the trouble to have a moan which makes it much harder to brush under the carpet. The TTF thread was 6 pages last time I looked, an hour or so ago, I bet it's at 12 now.