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i let another rider ride with me for a few hours in the night on TCRno5 - she'd run out of batteries for her main front light.
I said no initially but she persisted and I felt bad about leaving her there in the dark. I never grassed her up but I was pretty annoyed about it. I gues ultimately there was nothing I could do to stop her except drop her (which I probably could have done, she wasn't riding fast but that felt 'wrong') or call the race and tell them.
gillies-
Riding side by side for a few hours is fine, but if she is relying on your light that would obviously be against rules. And unfair to you if you are slowing down so she can keep up.
Official position would be she should surrender her card to you. I wonder if it has ever actually happened in practice
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Should have told her to do one. Its unsupported.
Nothing to feel bad about.Her fault. Her problem.
frank9755
skinny
A guy on IndyPac asked me for a cable tie. And I saw with my own eyes a TCR rider give another rider a battery. Luckily I finished above both of them.
What irritates me is that the penalties have not tended to reflect the advantages gained. In 2016 I was level with another rider at Skopje. I rode down that gravel hell in Macedonia. I got a pinch flat on it which I would not have got on the road. He rode down the motorway. He got a 2-hour penalty but finished half a day ahead of me, because my extra time riding not only took more than 2 hours longer, it pushed me into needing an extra day. The penalties don't factor that in.