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Originally Posted by bicycletricycle
For me, if you aren't supporting yourself riding your bike than it is all just some version of a coffee shop race. Nothing is riding on your efforts other than your ego. Spending money to win with more aero wheels isn't actually helping you accomplish anything "important" IMHO.
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What? Beating your local buddies to the coffee shop by 0.2 seconds for nothing more than bragging rights is not important? Why, that's heresy! Burn the blasphemer!
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Originally Posted by bicycletricycle
Again, to be clear. I have no problem with any of this and if it is your thing than go for it. It just doesn't make a lot of sense to me. Although I do like to watch F1 which is perhaps the strangest sport, almost like watching 2 states in an all out war.
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Speaking of which, this was overheard at an auto museum:
Tour guide: "The 1st automobile was invented by Karl Benz in 1885."
Small child: "When did they start racing automobiles?"
Tour guide: "Just after the invention of the 2nd automobile."