Half-wheel

verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To maintain a distance of half a wheel in front of another rider, regarded as poor etiquette.

    "Nobody half-wheels Bob and gets away with it. Bob kept forcing the pace by trying to ride next to him, and the pace escalated for almost an hour until Jock finally had to drop back."

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"Nobody half-wheels Bob and gets away with it. Bob kept forcing the pace by trying to ride next to him, and the pace escalated for almost an hour until Jock finally had to drop back."

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half-wheeler

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