Check out the track and see what it's like. Maybe I just had bad luck - I know people who I get along with well who love it. I just got sick of ****ty looks from people for riding a steel track bike with plenty of dirt and missing paint and not a carbon Teschner or Cervelo P3T with a $5,000 wheelset. YMMV, of course, and I certainly hope that it does. The track should be great, really. I'll give it another go some time, but for the time being I'm content to stick to the streets.