Someone liked a comment on here and I looked to see what it was.
For reference to my posts above, FIVE of the people who I raced against (tried to keep up with) fairly regularly over the past few years have now gone to the World Tour and are (or will soon be) racing with Bike Exchange, Ineos and Alpecin. Two of those also have a Bronze medals on the track from the Tokyo Olympics.
Note that I am nowhere near the level of those people (or many other people who I was racing against), and they have continued to improve, while i have ahem declined… However, it does bring my comments and general feelings of inadequacy into better perspective…
So, if you are looking back at the information/comments in this thread, my above views are pretty skewed in comparison to the ‘normal’ level and the World Tour signings over the past couple of years have made this very apparent!
On a very positive note - our local cycling culture is obviously going strong! 