oh, that's a good one. Explaining how brifters work never gets old :-D On a more serious note, I don't really see the appeal of biking as a social / networking

oh, that's a good one. Explaining how brifters work never gets old :-D On a more serious note, I don't really see the appeal of biking as a social / networking sport. Yeah, we do have a sort of a bike cabal at work too, but if I'd like to network, I guess there are much more efficient ways to do that. Biking as a sport has quite high barriers for entry both in material and in getting fit enough to be able to at least reasonably keep up.