I can hit 30mph going down a good hill ;-) Too bad there's ALWAYS a d@mn Stop Sign at the bottom, followed by a steep uphill.
"Team Gravity" works much better on the descent.
And anonymous notes for other posters:
Those helmets prevent severe head injury in case of a fall. On pavement, one can suffer skull fractures from a fall of as little as 3-4 feet. (Verified by lab experiments on cadavers).
Spandex looks gay, but prevents chafing.
I'm somewhat overweight but try to be sensitive by wearing a larger jersey so I don't look like a beached walrus.
The legendary Mrs. Whiskers bought me this jersey as a joke:
And $7,000 bikes are either for the mountain goats for who the extra weight and components make a difference(*), or the rich doctors for whom $7,000 is chump change and do quick metric centuries on the weekend to relieve stress.
Or fanatics who own five or six bikes just for themselves (divorced men).
(*) My son is an example. He was on the track and cross-country teams in high school and was leading a paceline on the MS 150 ride in Minnesota on a fat-tire bike for about 30 miles at at 23 mph. We bought him a good triathlon bike for graduation (tho' nothing like $7000) and it was like strapping at 50,000 hp Pratt & Whitney turbofan to him. Three weeks ago he took it out for a 140-mile ride "just for fun."
(Wistfully) Ahh, youth.
Cheers!