Racing Tactics for Cyclists

by Thomas Prehn, Thomas Prehn

Written for the experienced road cyclist, Racing Tactics for Cyclists shows team riders how to ride in a race, explains the importance of position, and discusses individual and team racing tactics. Each type of road race--one-days, stage races, criteriums--is covered, along with the technical riding skills and mental strategies needed to succeed. Also included is information on handling prologues, recovering from a crash or flat tire, resting during a race, and evaluating the competition.

Genres: Cycling, Sports

220 pages, Paperback

First published April 2, 2004

Reviews

[Andrew Timberg · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good n helpful I think. Read in a day. Pretty mid prose tbh, hope thomas a better racer than writer. Useful for getting into thinking patterns and starting to recognize strategy. Not directly applicable to me as it's focused pretty explicitly on team road racing:(. Biggest takeaways were gotta analyze the race/racers to pick the right breakaways and efficiency is king.

[Darren Linkin · Rating 5 out of 5]

Everyone who road/track races should read this book if you know it all (really) you’re the exception … vastly more experienced and stronger than me are surprisingly unaware of many basics and I like most attributed much to ‘need to be stronger’ (stronger is good but) knowledge is literally power in our sport. The stronger one is (in my experience/opinion) the less likely a rider is to have necessarily learned many skills that they compensated for with power. Once they hit the wall of leaning on pure power most stall or go into mountain biking or another discipline which has its own skills yes but it’s more individual not … nothing … is like mass start road/track cycling. Most don’t know this book exists.

[Neal · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good tactics for beginners.

[Trevor · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book really reinforces some of the intuitive aspects of riding techniques for cyclists. Not only does it help you understand competative cycling, but it will really help you to improve your efficiency. Very well explained, and complete with plenty of diagrams to introduce new vocabulary.

[Aligato · Rating 3 out of 5]

Easy-to-read and full of basic but good tactics for groups or single riders. Lots of diagrams and examples which seem applicable to women's cat 4 as well as the pro riders. Can be read in a weekend.

[Chris Lawson · Rating 3 out of 5]

Too many war stories/anecdotes. Not enough actual how-to, generalizable information. But still appreciate the fact that someone wrote a book trying to explain the sport to someone trying to get into it.

[Sarah]

siricat gave me this book on a list of good books to read

[Mark Cosslett · Rating 5 out of 5]

Wish I had read this before I got into the pelaton, seems like everyone else there has.