1) Why would they take off your tape and plugs. Why did you leave the store without replacing them.
2) Like a lot of other people who build bikes for fashion your bars are too low and you ride around with your elbows locked... Your bike doesn't fit.
3) The p2t is not a compact frame. While it may have a long tt for it's st length for pursuits that just means it needs spacers and a positive stem.
4)49/14 is not a reasonable gear for your level of racing either
5)no putting a brake on is never tarck. Putting a brake on when you insist of riding a crazy high gear is only reasonable. But really I bring this up because everything else about your bike screams tarck.
6)The pedals are outdated but not exactly crap in isolation. With sneakers though, they're no better than some ****ty plastic pedals from a takeoff bin. Any clipless pedal would be better than them or if you need clips and straps for style points get real cycling shoes and slotted cleats. Either way some sort of decent shoe/pedal combination is a much more logical next upgrade then wheels.
7) Hipster cysts are not the only lights that strap on. For the same price you can find lights that actually do some good and will fit on your bike. Really though I only bring it up cause you were afraid brakes would be tarck.
8) Same goes for your non-cut off hot pants. I'm not just making fun of you for not wearing cycling specific clothing. Plenty of stubborn fashion *****s make that mistake. I'm making fun of you because you are wearing the tarck uniform but afraid of being tarck and because it didn't occur to you that aero clothes might be a logical upgrade before aero wheels.
9) you want to buy aero wheels but you don't even own a helmet. Damn you're serious about this racing thing.
And finally "willing to train" ... ??? Because the track is the only place to train?
actually you said this very thing and also that you couldn't train for cross without hopping some barriers. You have said that you find training rides boring and don't have time for them in your social life.
and somehow you think I am an arrogant prick because I like to ride a high ratio.
I don't think your an arrogant prick because of your ratio. I think that because of how you responded to people trying to advise you on how to be faster in regard to your ratio and really it just seems more asinine than arrogant.
So you won the event where everyone else was geared even worse than you were? What was your time? Anything over about a 12.5 and you'll be faster in a lower gear still, though it may take some practice.