Yes, track riding can lead to being faster on the road due to just being more comfortable with the bike at speed and braking, but probably for all of us who go on the track it just ends up making us slower on the roads.
If the need for speed is satiated on the track, road riding becomes more about the social/freedom/club/tyre-kicking aspects of riding than the 'pin it to the max' side of biking. I do much less road riding that I used to, and all it much slower than I used to, because I get out on the track occasionally.
What I get from road riding is that spontaneous 'get up on a sunny morning, nip to Box Hill for a coffee, back before the kids drive the wife mad' feeling that track riding just can't give you. And why I just cant bring myself to sorn the bike...
14-Jun-2005, 12:10 
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