Originally Posted by AdamDZ

OP, dude. I just bough a light carbon road bike and you have no idea how fast it can go compared to my commuter. I can go 22mph easily on flat for an hour and I can burst sprints past 30mph quite easily and I'm not even close to be in good shape. If that roadie wanted to drop you he would have done it easily. He just didn't think it was worth it to race a commuter.

Oh, and I have a split personality: one day I'm a commuter, next day I'm a roadie, yet some other day I'm a mountain biker or a touring cyclist.