road captain

Definitions

1. 1

   The captain of a bicycle racing team, who sets the pace.

   • Brad finished sixteenth in the individual pursuit and then a wonderful fourth in the points race behind the man who would one day be his road captain at Team Sky, Mick Rogers.
   • Our road captain Mick Rogers took it straight up to 450 and sat at that. So the feeling was: this is getting hard, we're on a really solid tempo here.
   • My role within the team has become more and more that of a road captain as the years have gone by.
2. 2

   An experienced rider who organizes and marshals the motorcycle club on the road.

   • Try to lead no more than 10 motorcycles. If you're a novice at the role of road captain, six bikes is the optimum size.
3. 3

   One who is in charge of a group while it is travelling or patrolling a road

   • Other officers could include the ' road captain, the dirt captain, and the safety director. These three would have duties as follows: The road captain would be the man in charge when the group is on a road trip.
   • On the side of the Burgundians an old road captain, called Le Breton d'Aily, was killed; and after these things had happened they returned to Sir [John] of Luxembourg at the camp before Araines.
   • Each collective was steered by an individual or a few prominent memberes. Companies refer to these persons as "road captains" or "psych drivers."
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      A leader who steers or directs a group.

      • We are to take up the shield of faith—to daily walk in the faith and trust that God knows what's best for us. He is the ultimate road captain that has the best route for our lives mapped up.
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      A person who has official responsibility for maintaining a section of road.

      • James Fry and Henry Perkins were appointed road captains to call out the people and work on the road from Thompson's cow pens to Boggy Depot.
      • The ad hoc citizens' road committee divided the county's four beats into special road sections and then appointed "road captains" for each of these sections.

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