rinkystinkydinky: it is only in America that people could possibly think that 'Tracy' was anything other than a chick's name. Read more widely, learn to spell, but you summed yourself up perfectly.

As with all performance sports - it is about using timing, balance and pressure control to create and maintain speed. All pretty relevant to being better at any kind of discipline that has timing, balance and pressure control as key components. By taking the pedalling out one is forcing riders to concentrate on those skills. Best way to run it is equal start hills and no chain at all. Some of you should actually try it before you bad mouth it - if it is considered good training by the Athertons, Peat, Lopes etc there has to be something to it.