newcastlecycling

I think the real reason is "I don’t want to ruin my sprint finish".  In C grade EVERYONE fancies themselves as a sprinter, when none (me included) are in truth sprinters.  What we have is a bunch of people reliant on other people being too tired to stand on the peddles in the last 100m, so you end up with this peverse race where the least fit can in theory snag a place if everyone else gets really tired.  We could end up having scratach races where people trackstand for 17 days until everyone else passes out from lack of food - and guess who has more stores to last than the rest of you bunters :-)

I hope 2nd Wheel does come back to C grade, because then there will be a real sprinter to neutralise and we might see some exciting racing.  If I were handicapper, and I am glad I am not, I'd shift some of the dross from the back of B grade to C grade, and see if a kick to the ego might incite some effort.