Originally Posted by DrPete

Sorry, just something of a pet peeve.

I'm a long-time roadie, and I've become accustomed to buying, building, riding, and racing some nice bikes. I'm a strongish cyclist but a mediocre MOP triathlete who still needs a lot of swim/run work. I still love building/tweaking/blinging out bikes, though, so I race tri's on a bike that I'm sure would be considered way "too much bike" by the BF police. But you know what? It keeps me riding, I love racing it, and when you're working 80-100 hours a week it's more about a new PR than impressing anyone or winning my AG. It's just how it is. Some days I have good rides, other days I have crappy rides. I still love my bike and plan to continue riding the hell out of it. Doesn't mean I don't want to work on the "engine" or that I think a P2C with all the fixin's will make me a better athlete than I am--that's why I'm shopping for coaches too.

So next time you need a good story about the fat guy on a blinged-out Cervelo whose bike split was Top 1/4 overall, look me up.