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Somewhere like the Netherlands, every bike racer is going to have at least two bikes: a regular commuting ‘granny bike’, and a racing roadbike.
Just as it’s common for a runner to have regular-ass shoes for going grocery shopping and a pair of running shoes they only really use when training for a marathon, or for reasonably well-off car/ motorcycle enthusiasts to have a more practical regular car they use for daily driving and a less practical sporty vehicle for pleasure drives.
Road bikes like you see in the Tour de France aren’t really a practical form of transportation. You have special shoes that clip to the pedals, you wear lycra bike shorts, etc.
Somewhere like the Netherlands, every bike racer is going to have at least two bikes: a regular commuting ‘granny bike’, and a racing roadbike.
Just as it’s common for a runner to have regular-ass shoes for going grocery shopping and a pair of running shoes they only really use when training for a marathon, or for reasonably well-off car/ motorcycle enthusiasts to have a more practical regular car they use for daily driving and a less practical sporty vehicle for pleasure drives.
Road bikes like you see in the Tour de France aren’t really a practical form of transportation. You have special shoes that clip to the pedals, you wear lycra bike shorts, etc.