zhmontana

Ok, but if you were sailing into a Cat 5 hurricane, would you take your most expensive ship or your cheaper ship. I would take the cheaper one and save the expensive one for the days I am less likely to sink.

I guess where I was coming from was the perspective of 1st year racing with Cat 5's, why ruin your good bike when it is so likely that you will get involved in crashes (I can't afford to take that chance personally). I was figuring to wait to race the good machine til i have moved up a few ranks. Of course if I were a pro and my equipment was given to me, I would race the best thing i could.

I race a Trek 1500 with upgraded components.
I do my fun/long/etc group rides on a Trek Madone 5.9
Both are same size and setup to avoid 'fit issues'

Cheers