Originally Posted by
grolby
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"Unless you're racing" is perhaps the most vacuous, misguided phrase in all of cycling, because it's used to gird all kinds of habits in a kind of defensive rationalism.
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Yeah, there are lots of things that aren't
necessary "unless you're racing" but that doesn't mean they don't have advantages outside of racing. Whether one finds those advantages worth the cost, hassle, or whatever is up to them.