I've been racing bicycles for 40 years and if there's one thing I've learned it's that the most important component of a bicycle is the human engine. I've seen young really powerful and athletic kids come to the track with some pretty basic equipment, one guy had a pretty much stock $280 Motobecane track except for the clipless pedals, and beat all the guys with their $3000 carbon wonders. So, it doesn't surprise or impress me that State riders are being successful on their bicycles. It just means that they've got some strong riders, not that their bikes are especially good. There was one Cat 1 dude who raced the first two years on a steel Bianchi Pista, which is about the same quality as a Kilo TT, and it didn't affect his results at all.