Rider profile: roadie / racer-cyclist.<br>
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<li>Speed is first. Go A-to-B faster, get off the road sooner.</li>
<li>Accept that safety is always third. You've already signed the death-warrant, so-to-speak.</li>
<li>Think exactly like a motorist / car-driver: Anyone faster than you is a maniac, anyone slower than you is an idiot.</li>
<li>Optimization: The lighter the bicycle (and yourself) the higher average speed you get.</li>
<li>Helmet is a must at these speeds, but lights shouldn't be too heavy unless you're specifically doing night-riding.</li>
<li>Wear the lightest, slickest clothing (lycra) to eke out that last bit of speed. (And maybe a few other minor optimizations too specialized or crazy to put here)</li>
<li><a href="stopSign.html">Stop-signs</a> are optional: remember, speed is first. You have your reaction-time to take care of the rest.</li>
<li>Main roads are no problem for you. In fact it's more favorable than the side-roads full of stop-signs, or mixed-pathways full of pedestrians, or bike lanes full of amateur slowpokes.</li> 
<li>You don't see the point of bike lanes or mixed pathways (with all the slower foot/cycle traffic), and avoid them if at all possible.</li>
<li>You need to keep training, so you also do extra training rides on the side, preferably on closed roads but you can instead treat a random stretch of road as a circuit/training track.</li>
<li>You keep up with the latest news on new bicycle tech. Must keep the edge.</li>
</ul><br>

Congrats, you stopped caring about what other people think, and only focus on being your best self.<br>
<a href="blameShift.html">All is well (until it isn't...)</a><br><br>

Although, you realize you can't keep doing this forever unless you stay close to your peak form (around age 25-30). You also realize cycling has become elitist--there's no way your grandparents, parents, young siblings, kids, etc. can do what you do, unless of course they put in an effort much greater than getting a driver's license (the ease of earning a driver's license speaks volumes about the quality of drivers I guess). Eventually you'll <a href="slowDown.html">slow down</a> like a mortal. But live in the moment, I guess.<br><br>

<a href="impedingTraffic.html">Quit the speed arms-race.</a> You're not cycling to have the same car-brain mentality or speeds or stress; you're cycling to let the road-ragers speed on by ahead of you while you continue having a good time in a timely commute, at your own pace.<br>