[Closed] can anyone recommend a video for road riding rules/strategies

The rules

Can't think of a video but this article on CyclingTips was a good intro for me a few years ago.

Oh, and quite a few teams use disc brakes, but not everyone does all the time.

I am watching the tour de yorkshire and do not understand how teams work together etc and what a peleton is. Are there any recommended easily understandable videos or statements that could help me understand the tactics and rules of team racing and racing in general. I feel like I need more of an understanding before I can understand the commentry.

Peloton: the main group of riders. At the start of the race there will be "the peloton". Over the course of the race you'll probably have "the breakaway" or soemtimes just "the break" which is a smaller group of riders up the road and then you'll have "the peloton". Its a French word meaning "platoon" (as in the group of soldiers) whcih describes it pretty well.

also why no disk brakes ?

Plenty of the teams are riding discs now.

In terms of tactics, working together etc that could take an entire book to describe. It depends a lot on the race (one-day / stage race), the number of riders in the team, any time bonuses available and the overall aim of the team - there will be plenty of riders and teams there not capable of going for the win so they might have other objectives within the race like "get a rider into the break" (where you get a bit more publicity) or "score points in the KOM" or even just someone who does a few suicide attacks to get noticed and potentially get an award for "most attacking rider" or whatever other recognition that event might have.

Oh, and quite a few teams use disc brakes

Very few teams used them in TdY even in yesterday’s awful weather

Have the peloton been letting the small local teams off the front for the benefit of the TV coverage. Breakaways seldom work, but make for good TV. Basically the big teams with contenders watch each other whilst a few chancers slip off the front. The peloton lets the bunch get five minutes and sit up. Come the last hour, time to pull them back and the race gets underway. If a ream has a man in the break. Those left in the peloton will try and break up the chase. If it’s a sprint stage with s flat ending, teams with a sprinter will be expected to do the work.

Sometimes a team will try and get two in a break for proper tactics. Sometimes you send a non contender out the front in the brake to mop up bonus points for Kom sprints or time bonus. Two of the same team in a break means one can try any get away and the other block for them.

Teams ride what they’re paid to. Most have access to disks in some of their variants. Not a big deal. They may have them at the tour de Romandie Shazam are Ride no what’s left over.

It’s the three not team sport I know with an individual winner.

thanks I'll have a read in the morning.

https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Full_Gas.html?id=E5s0DwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=kp_read_button&redir_esc=y

https://www.britishcycling.org.uk/knowledge/skills

Global Cycling Network on YouTube has hundreds of videos covering all sorts of road riding advice, info, insights, explanations etc

thanks everyone. I recorded the rest of the racing and will watch it after looking at these. Hopefully there's more coverage today too.

I've been watching bike racing on the telly since the mid eighties and road raced for about 20 years. I couldn't have predicted the outcome of the last stage of TdY until the last 5k. Just as tactics start to get predictable, the teams (and the event organisers with routes) mix it all up to catch everyone out.

If you do find the bible of race tactics, please let me know!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wmGp2pKF60

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lbc115DGV7w
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5V-fC4xCf_c