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Exactly. I'm all for buying nice kit. I just don't like the BS that people use to justify it - going faster is about improving yourself, not the bike (within reason, obviously you need a bike that fits, doesn't break, doesn't weigh 20kg, etc)
Whats silly is suggesting that a bike the weights 7.4kgs is heavy, its not. I think you will find thats the point most have been making.
No one is saying that riding a heavier bike make you hard as ****.
Top tip; go to Belgium for a few days, stay in Ghent, buy a newspaper, work out where the races are and enter some. You'll get dropped like a stone, but you will learn how to ride fast.
Would love to do this! Could you just rock up and get your name on the start sheet on a random Thursday night though? I've always put it off never knowing the score with licenses, where the races are, if I'd actually get in etc.
Whats silly is suggesting that a bike the weights 7.4kgs is heavy
He never said that his bike was heavy, just that its not the lightest, and its not. 6.8kg if the UCI weight limit and its easy to get a bike lighter than that with a bit of cash to spend.
Scratch, essentially, yes.
You need a BC licence and possibly a letter from BC now, but basically you just go and sign on at the start.
It's fantastic, both as an experience and to learn about racing.
Cool, cheers Crickey, was reading about the letter earlier,
Just trying to find the best time to go to get as many races in as possible while there
thisisnotaspoon:-
try www.strava.com helps you compare local hill climbs and gives you a suffer score etc... against alpe d'huez etc...
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What make is the madone again?
I'm assuming your computer was black and white when you did the project one thing?