I Love Drafting!!!!!
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Smurfy
Naturist Smurf
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OK, I'm guilty of drafting buses. 
Timing is everything, just watch out for that flashing right indicator, and then tag on the back when they pull away. Limited stop is better, as the regular ones stop too soon. Uphill can be quite good too, as loaded double deckers are a bit slow on hills.
Timing is everything, just watch out for that flashing right indicator, and then tag on the back when they pull away. Limited stop is better, as the regular ones stop too soon. Uphill can be quite good too, as loaded double deckers are a bit slow on hills.
Downward
Guru
- Location
- West Midlands
OK, I'm guilty of drafting buses.
Me too.
Vikeonabike
CC Neighbourhood Police Constable
- Location
- Bourne, Lincolnshire
Living in Rural Lincolnshire, the conditons have been great for drafting.. Tractors, millions of them between 25 and 35 mph... Great fun!
Kiwiavenger
im a little tea pot
- Location
- Carclaze, St Austell
I regularly play chase the bus now!! There is a national speed limit exiting my village so as long as I'm fairly close I benefit all the way to the next village (1 1/2 miles) I also then try and race the bus as it takes a slightly different and marginally longer route.
Drafting through the roadworks outside my work is also fun as long as I can see ahead of the car in front of me
Drafting through the roadworks outside my work is also fun as long as I can see ahead of the car in front of me
Smurfy
Naturist Smurf
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- Smurfette's Kitchen
Got a good ride from an ambulance today. Yes, I know!
classic33
Leg End Member
Inside or outside?Got a good ride from an ambulance today. Yes, I know!
noodle
Active Member
- Location
- northern monkey
look elsewhere on here and you will see im new to proper road stuff
last time i had a road bike it was a brand new puch sprint and i drafted a car down a local road called crank road aptly named with hindsight
http://www.strava.com/segments/4998295
now that bike had steel rims and old world calipers and i was closely following a car (ill come back to this) down this hill about a foot at the closest (oh i was just 13 so just squeezed past the 12 year old bit
) anyway im flying along i mean never been quicker (grew up with reliant robins...) bottom of the hill there is a bend so the car breaks i do but well steel rims calipers....... i bounce off the car kerb etc
what was this car that i couldnt outbrake citroen 2cv dolly
d231 was definatly the numbers and ocv i think the letters
that fall really stung
still draft now though used to do it loads round liverpool, taxis buses on the way in down the hill past tj hughes
last time i had a road bike it was a brand new puch sprint and i drafted a car down a local road called crank road aptly named with hindsight
http://www.strava.com/segments/4998295
now that bike had steel rims and old world calipers and i was closely following a car (ill come back to this) down this hill about a foot at the closest (oh i was just 13 so just squeezed past the 12 year old bit
) anyway im flying along i mean never been quicker (grew up with reliant robins...) bottom of the hill there is a bend so the car breaks i do but well steel rims calipers....... i bounce off the car kerb etcwhat was this car that i couldnt outbrake citroen 2cv dolly
d231 was definatly the numbers and ocv i think the letters
that fall really stung
still draft now though used to do it loads round liverpool, taxis buses on the way in down the hill past tj hughes
raleighnut
Legendary Member
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- One of the 'Elite'
I never minded drafting cars as I could always see over em, busses/lorries etc not for me. 
Smurfy
Naturist Smurf
- Location
- Smurfette's Kitchen
Outside, but I was thinking how silly I'd feel if it all went wrong and I needed a ride inside.
look elsewhere on here and you will see im new to proper road stuff
last time i had a road bike it was a brand new puch sprint and i drafted a car down a local road called crank road aptly named with hindsight
http://www.strava.com/segments/4998295
now that bike had steel rims and old world calipers and i was closely following a car (ill come back to this) down this hill about a foot at the closest (oh i was just 13 so just squeezed past the 12 year old bit
what was this car that i couldnt outbrake citroen 2cv dolly
d231 was definatly the numbers and ocv i think the letters
that fall really stung
still draft now though used to do it loads round liverpool, taxis buses on the way in down the hill past tj hughes
Crank Road . know it well !!! I have plenty of rides over that way ! Climbing off the flat and bombing it back down into Wigan
Crankarm
Guru
- Location
- Nr Cambridge
Why would you draft a filthy dirty bus? The fumes from the exhaust would gas you. And of course you are not breathing long and hard to try to keep in close. Yuck!
Cyclopathic
Veteran
- Location
- Leicester.
There are cycling activities that you could do that are dangerous but also don't put other peoples well being in danger. There's no way of seeing if you are coming up on a pot hole that could throw you of. Not too bad if it's just you that gets hurt (I don't think anyone here would mind) but what about the poor sod that drives over you. They will have to live with the horrible banging, crunching sound for the rest of their lives. What's more is that some one else may get injured or worse.
I'm not saying don't get your kicks, just do it where you can't adversely affect other peoples lives.
Cyclopathic
Veteran
- Location
- Leicester.
Also I would have thought that anyone who wanted to travel as quickly and effortlessly as a car would just, I dunno, drive a car?
