Racers, critique my tactics (video)

thedomestique
thedomestique Posts: 12
edited June 2013 in Amateur race
I'm interested to know what the members of the forum have to say about this race video. I have been using a different forum and have found that I am getting trolled more than would be reasonable to expect. So, I put it here in hopes of starting a dialogue about racing, cycling video production, tactics, fitness, etc. If your criticism is constructive, I look forward to it. This race is in the US, but a world perspective would be better.

This is a race I did with a six camera shoot. I had three cameras on the bike and three off. It was actually quite easy to set up.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPthzVHB5e4

Comments

  • chrisaonabike
    chrisaonabike Posts: 1,914
    Not a racer, what does "tightening my sphere" mean?
    Is the gorilla tired yet?
  • buckles
    buckles Posts: 694
    Sorry but I found the video unwatchable.
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  • imposter2.0
    imposter2.0 Posts: 12,028
    was that definitely a race ?
  • craker
    craker Posts: 1,739
    Well I enjoyed watching that over a glass of wine. I'm not a racer, can't quite work out what happened at the end. Agh well, cheers for posting. What was the time / distance btw?
  • jibberjim
    jibberjim Posts: 2,810
    craker wrote:
    Well I enjoyed watching that over a glass of wine. I'm not a racer, can't quite work out what happened at the end. Agh well, cheers for posting. What was the time / distance btw?

    He'd been dropped by the 2 strong guys who could do whatever they wanted it seems, but outsprinted the other bloke...

    It seems the depth of the field is not what you'd get in any populated place in the UK, as that course was not technical enough to cause much of a split without masses and masses of attacks from a lot of very strong riders.
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  • maryka
    maryka Posts: 748
    I'm impressed you can ride crits in a mall parking lot these days!
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  • imposter2.0
    imposter2.0 Posts: 12,028
    maryka wrote:
    I'm impressed you can ride crits in a mall parking lot these days!

    with little or no course marking ;)
  • Tom Butcher
    Tom Butcher Posts: 3,830
    Looked pretty good to me - nice grass roots crit race. I'm no crit racer but it looked ok tactically - you probably did a bit too much early on and when the top boys went didn't have enough to follow but if everyone thought that you'd end up with negative racing.
    it's a hard life if you don't weaken.
  • thedomestique
    thedomestique Posts: 12
    jibberjim wrote:
    He'd been dropped by the 2 strong guys who could do whatever they wanted it seems, but outsprinted the other bloke...

    It seems the depth of the field is not what you'd get in any populated place in the UK, as that course was not technical enough to cause much of a split without masses and masses of attacks from a lot of very strong riders.

    Yeah, that's about it. In the last two races, the break has won. My teammates were out of this race, so I was hoping for a podium by pulling some guys off the front with me. Like most big risk moves, if it works, you look like a genius. If it fails, you're an idiot.
  • thedomestique
    thedomestique Posts: 12
    Imposter wrote:
    was that definitely a race ?

    Haha! There were numbers, doesn't that make it a race?
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    Looked like the right tactic but too early. The rider who countered when you got caught got it spot on but on another day a couple of riders may have come across and it would have worked out. It didn't look particularly quick but then races never do from the side lines! Nice easy course for moving up though, wish we had more like that here as I'm a real slow starter.
  • thedomestique
    thedomestique Posts: 12
    I saw the results finally and I held on to get 8th in a field of 25.
  • hammerite
    hammerite Posts: 3,408
    Imposter wrote:
    maryka wrote:
    I'm impressed you can ride crits in a mall parking lot these days!

    with little or no course marking ;)

    I've seen races advertised using the car park at Norfolk County Council offices and Decathlon in Giltbrook (near Nottingham/Derby) and wondered what the set up was like. I wondered about the possibility of doing similar round my way, but all the retail parks seem to have huge speed bumps.

    Nice video edit. I'm a bit like Pross and prefer to take a couple of laps to get in to it to see what others are up to, but then I'm rarely strong enough to try something anyway! Next time try waiting until someone else attacks, seems like from your comments on the video you know a lot of the other riders, if it's someone you know is particularly strong go with them - pick and choose which move to get involved with. If no one is up for it then do what you tried this time round, someone might go with you.

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