Just wanted to say thanks to the many knowledgable posters here who have shared such great advice for newbs in numerous threads. I've finally gotten the cajones to try a crit after 2 years of riding and 12,000+ miles under my belt. It's a training race on a .8 mile 4 turn park circuit (Bryan park in Richmond), but people take it pretty seriously and I'm looking forward to just trying to stay with the pack in the B race. I'll post here about how it goes later, I'm pretty excited and moderately afraid I'll drop my brand new bike :-(.