Originally Posted by
mikewaters
I'm afraid this thread will implode if I say I am worried about riding on the crappiest bike in the group. Alum motobecane with 32 spoke training wheels. If I wait til I have a race bike and race wheels I'll never race...
Dude. I started racing in 2008 on a 1987 Univega with 7-speed downtube shifters on Kelly Take-Offs.
The following year, I had a new race bike (S-Works E5), but when I moved down to Nashvile I was only able to take one bike for the first month and a half or so. Because I needed to do everything on that bike, I didn't take my race bike. I took an '87 Schwinn Tempo with the original 6-speed downtube shifters. So I raced on that for a month.
(Jonathan Warren photo).
Step away from BF, head over to Bike Reg and register for a race already!