Once again, one of our young Cat. 3 riders is jumping ship to join the local "elite" team. I don't get it. I mean, I understand that our club is larger and so we have to spread our resources around a bit more, but the usual excuse of "I want to race with a team with more Cat. 1,2,3 riders on it" just doesn't hold much water. I think that what it really means is "a bunch of my friends are on that team, so I want to be on it too." Not that there's really anything wrong with that. It's just that I'd rather they were all on our team rather than the other one.
Those guys are mostly just regular Cat. 3 quality riders and anyway have been generally absent at almost all of the races this year. Only two or three of them have been racing consistently, and rarely all at the same time. And I'm not talking about like 20 guys. I'm talking about like 5. I can't think of a single race where there was enough of a "team" in the 1,2,3 race for them to have any effect whatsoever. Worse, all of those riders were originally on the NOBC. It's so frustrating. It's like just because we have a few more masters riders than most clubs, the Cat. 2 and 3 riders don't seem to want to be associated with us, so as soon as they get a chance they switch jerseys. I've got to find out what the deal is here. Maybe they're just getting so much reduced-price equipment that it seems like it's too good of a deal to pass up. I dunno. All I know is that every time our riders move over to the other team, they seem to be racing less. I don't really mind when they get recruited by one of the more serious regional-level teams, it's just that this local team doesn't see like much of a step up.
I just wish one of our Cat. 1,2,3 riders would start recruiting riders from the other teams, rather than vice-versa.
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