Originally Posted by caloso

FWIW, most of the guys I race with commute by bike, usually on their "A" bike. If you're a racer with a full time job and family, incorporating training into your commute is the only way to get the saddle time necessary to be competitive. For me, that means some days I'm doing solo intervals, other days doing the local weeknight hammerfest, and other days taking a long mellow recovery detour.

Originally Posted by alan s

OK, except in the limited circumstance where you are riding directly to the race course from work, you would look like a tool riding a race bike to work. Not talking road bikes here, but a typical bike you would see in a real race. Tubular Zipps, 3 foot saddle to bar drop, CF, the works. Talking $$$ bikes. There was a guy in the building I used to work at in downtown DC riding a super nice race bike with his name under the clearcoat on the frame. Got lots of WTF looks behind his back. Nice guy and all, but no one could fathom why he was riding it to work.