When a team leader or an important rider gets a puncture and he loses touch with the peloton, usually most of his team drop back and pace him back into the peloton.
Now when this happens to one of my important riders how do I get say a few team mates to drop back to pick him up? It happened today and I dropped two teammates down to about 30 but they hardly dropped down the peloton, in the end I just rode my rider back in without any teammates helping.
Edited by Tafiolmo on 08-03-2014 21:02
Make sure to set them to "individual effort" (the icon called "dot" in this forum)
and as Iguwell hinted, never set it lower than 2, or they would quite the race.
After they dropped from the peloton, set them to short relay and adjust the effort of each rider so that they can be helpful.
I know that 0 will get the rider to quit the race, so I'd never do that! Now I have two other questions and worth asking here instead on another thread.
What is the real difference between short and infinite relay? I know what they should mean, in that infinite relay means that the rider will stay permanently at the front, but in reality why use it? As on short relay your rider will share the relay with other teammates or riders from another team anyway. Also if he is the only rider on the short relay option then it's like infinite relay anyway as he will just stay fixed at the front. Just trying to really workout the purpose and reason why somebody would use infinite relay?
Also I'm in the habit of when I'm in a one man breakaway, whether at the front of the race or chasing other riders down to also use 'short relay' as well. I do this as I'm certain it's better than riding on normal in terms of speed and I don't think it uses as much energy as individual effort, am I correct in this or not and should it be used when riding alone?'
1. Infinite relay may be useful when you are setting up a Sky train f.e., or any time positioning matters. Also, the AI is scripted to pace at a certain interval at certain parts of the race barring special situations, sometimes the short relay does not sustain a high enough pace
2. I'm 98% positive that it does the same, even in some situations 'maintain' position does the same as dot! I use dot by habit, just because relaying in a one man break seems ridiculous from a real-life standpoint
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The energy usage is linked to the heart rate, and you can check the heart rate easily, so just try it the next time when one of your riders is on a one man break away.
