burnthesheep wrote:
One of the following, or both:
-a wet lube that doesn't permanently stain anything it touches
OR
-white cycling shoes that have the craziest Scotch guard ever on them or space age fabric to resist the devil of wet chain lube
Next:
More road races for entry level bike racing, and more time trial. There are a thousand crits and cx races for every one RR around here. I think this year there were 4 total remotely close to me. I raced one of them, two others certainly would have required an overnight stay and pissed off wife and kids. My own fault, out of town for the 4th.
I feel a solution to this for us low level nobody racers in 4/5 would be for USAC to partner with some of the fondo series and put the bike racers on the front start line with a lead out gap and let em race the timed course.
You've got the permit, you've got the timing........sooo......two for one. Same for time trial, partner up with a local sprint triathlon and let the time trial only folks go off from T1 as the swimmers enter the water.
Where the money comes.......just tack on another $20 on top of the fondo/sprint fee to be in the USAC race. I mean, if the front 10% are going balls out already anyway in a fondo..........what's the difference?
You aren’t getting more races if you don’t show up and support the ones you do have. Soon there will be less. Of course you’ve gotta get a hotel, that’s the case with most road races.