More Rules.

1. If you spent less time matching socks to jerseys to helmets, you may extend you time riding your bike . Its not a dress up party.

2. If you weigh more that 170 lbs you probably shouldn't be on carbon anyway.

3. Any time you spent obsessing about data collected by your garmin or powermeter should be spent riding. This might be "unstructured" and not according to the training load calculated by your software coach, but it probably burns more calories on the long run. Same goes for time spent obsessing about buying stuff that makes your bike lighter. And for writing lists like this on blogs.

 4. If cyclists (pro-aspirants/posers) realized that the primary reasons to be into racing/club riding is to meet new people, have adventures, and burn enough calories to eat whatever one wants, the cycling scene would be much more tolerable.

5. We are really, at the end of the day, just riding Bicycles.

6.  A red traffic light means "Proceed, but adopt a look of smug self-satisfaction".

7.  If  you find yourself in a situation that you get disrespected in a group because you are riding your 
daily commuter, or that your helmet doesn`t match your jersey, just ignore it and  put out 110 percent and have a go at it.

8. There is no room for "hope, fate, and destiny" in the bike "racing". those are simply the names of strippers

8. Riding more might result in  you sucking less next time you ride. Driving more will result in sucking more.

9. If you feel strongly the urge to attack a group on a hill, make sure you have enough juice left to continue at a high speed. If you go for 50 meters and then slow down in front of everyone else, its really annoying. 

10. On bad days, leg hurt more but don't go faster. Temptation is to get back on the bike, ride, train, race harder to put that performance behind. That would be a mistake. Rest is all that's required, easing back into it through a couple of nice steady rides is what mind and body need.

11. If someone else gets dropped, dont be a jerk about it. No trashtalking please. It happens to everyone.

12. If you get dropped and you are ashamed about it, don't make up excuses.  It happens to everyone.