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Types of Bicycle Races
Different events favor different riders. Riders with a high aerobic threshold and an ability to stay focused do well in time trials. Riders with a high power-to-weight ratio and the ability to suffer on hills tend to do better in road races. Riders with explosive power and lots of fast twitch muscle tend to do better in criteriums.

• Time Trial: A race against the clock. Riders start at regular intervals (30 seconds or 1 minute apart); no drafting allowed.

• Road: Mass-start event on a road course. Drafting is allowed, and team work is a factor. It is up to 30 percent easier to ride behind another rider -- think NASCAR. Courses vary from flat courses ending in a "field sprint" (most racers finishing together, sprinting across the line) to hilly courses that become more of a race of attrition.

• Criterium: Mass-start event on a short course, most often a flat 1-kilometer course in a downtown setting. Drafting is allowed; technical skills such as cornering in a pack at at speeds which may exceed 30 m.p.h. are critical. There is a lot of sprinting, including mid-race sprints called "primes" (pronounced "preems") in which the first rider to cross the line on that particular lap wins cash or another prize.