grolby

This is something I thought about posting, but ended up passing on. But now that you've brought it up, I think it's very funny that we amateurs are often so anxious to emulate Pro style, but that we haven't caught up on this. There was a time when special climbing bikes, crit bikes, etc were fairly common, but that hasn't been true for a while now. But among amateurs it's still some kind of point of pride or symbol of "dedication to the sport" (at least in the mind of the special-purpose bike owner) to own a different bike for crits and road races, for example.

This is usually justified in terms of economics: that it's more fiscally responsible to buy and race a cheaper bike in crits. I feel like a broken record in those threads, pointing out that two bikes do, in fact, cost more than one bike and that frame-destroying crashes are not actually all that common. I usually end up getting shouted down.

But anyway, I climb on my crit bike and race crits on my climbing bike.