Well if we’re generalising……when I worked in a bike shop sportive riders would come in, proclaim loudly that they were doing a race
We can all laugh and joke, and point fingers at overpaid bankers on Pinarello Dogma’s, and grumpy old men on lugged steel bikes with down tube shifters, but… It’s this that really gets me!
As long as people are having fun on bikes, how you do it is up to you. But FFS, it’s not a bloody “race”, so stop calling it one! Nobody wins, nobody gets any prize money, and people set off at different times. If you finish with the fastest time of the day, feel free to gloat that you were the fastest rider there on the day, you’re probably a big fish in a small pond anyway but chapeau (to a point). But tell me you “won a race” at the weekend and you immediately elevate yourself into the premier league of ****…