Originally Posted by
caloso
Go to the Road Racing forum and do a search on mileage. Those guys are posting some pretty high figures. Most of them work and have families. How do you think they're able to get in the kind of mileage necessary to be competitive if not for riding to work?
By spending less time with their families and more time with the club on training rides?
High cycling mileage figures does not necessarily mean anything about the
Road Cyclist Population's typical method of getting to work, or if many/any
Roadies have a clue about bicycle commuting in urban traffic.