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.