Originally Posted by
bitingduck
And as a racer, anything I'm on in a race is a disposable commodity. I've seen too much equipment destroyed to think otherwise.
I went to a world cup event at ADT a while back and was utterly shocked at how poorly the bikes held up in crashes. The last time I was at a world class track event everyone was still riding lugged steel and serious bike damage was extremely rare. But at the world cup event it seems like every time there was a fall you'd see broken forks bouncing down the track, handlebars headed in the other direction, fragments of carbon rims flying around... I was flabbergasted.
All of which is a long way of suggestion that the average track racer either buy a steel frame and standard wheels, or take out a line of credit.