Originally Posted by
mattm
Dude.
Don't be that guy.
this.
btw, I raced the Tour de Gruene mentioned in the thread, me and a good buddy both on our lugged steel bikes with 32 round spokes, normal rims, normal helmets, no shoe covers... etc... in "the spirit" of Merckx style.
As were were lined up staging for our TT start I noticed that BOTH the team ahead of us and the team behind us were rocking bolt-on aero bars, shoe covers, deep rims... and they were in the Merckx class. We didn't say anything, just looked at each other and shook our heads. Why? Because it's just a stupid bike race. This is supposed to be for fun. Jeeeeeeeezus.
BTW we beat both of those teams, handily.