PROS GIVING BACK
When you’re five points off that elusive secondcat road licence and your season’s going well, it’s quite the exercise in selflessness to forgo a ride in the weekend road race to volunteer instead. It’s not impossible though. But when the national road champion, who rides for Ineos Grenadiers no less, tells you that he can’t man the tea room at this weekend’s road race because he’s riding in the WorldTour, you can’t hold it against him. As far as excuses go, it’s cast iron; written into a contract with no wriggle room. But as Ben Swift points out, there are other ways to help out, such as being the president of the club you rode for as a child.
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