Originally Posted by
Raiden
If you're not on a team, you're really not any title whatsoever, and if you spend too much time sitting on your duff posting on bikeforums instead of riding, you'll be the caboose
while that may sound a bit harsh to some, much of that is true.
From the decades of experience I've found that I suck at crits for the most part, and sprint like a snail, but longer sustained events suit me well. I lost what little sprint I had(that was accumulated over decades) in a wreck, but the endurance came back in less than a year.