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This speaks to popularity. Our district tt earlier this year....if you showed up and rode the course on a hybrid wearing sneakers and sipping beer you very well could have podiumed. |
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No officials to pay, no license fees to collect which make the racers think it's too expensive, less rules to pay police or ambulance to be on hand, less rules in general, more money in the pocket of the organizer. One of the things that always left a bad feeling in my mouth with fondo type rides is you pay the money but you're definitely not guaranteed to get what you paid for, and they are not nearly as upfront about that as what happens at a USCF race. It's not like the officials at a USCF race don't make it clear that you might get pulled from the race if you get dropped or if you do something dangerous. Last edited by benb; 08-15-2022 at 04:00 PM. |
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Lance effectively killed MTB racing (X/C at least) and sent everyone over to race on the road for a while. I most certainly got caught up in that. IMO Lance's mutating from 7 to -7 effectively reversed it all only everyone seemed to go find something other than cycling to do. It's not like MTB or Cross or something picked everyone up. Realistically the MTB race series I did are still going. But the races that remain are all like 5+ hour round trip drives. Not all the races remain, and the ones that survived are the ones further out in the rural areas than never really had the masses of road riders required to start having local road racing like in the city. 20 years ago I could cherry pick the close ones. Once they were all really far away it got way harder to want to do them. Any race/event I do that requires me to drive the car more hours than I ride my bike is something I have a really hard time being motivated to participate in. Last edited by benb; 08-15-2022 at 04:02 PM. |
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I'm not a Shimano guy, but can't you press the button on top of your mechanical lever to change the display on your computer? Before he presses it, he looks down. Maybe he wanted a different display?
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