Let it be known that I’ve now gone a step further than shaved legs and carbon-fiber shoe soles.
I am now a licensee of the Fédération Française de Cyclisme. I can enter any sportive race in the country with just a medical certificate, but the license adds a bit of legitimacy and integration I thought, and I get discounts on entrance fees to boot. I didn’t know I could do this, but I ended up being able to get the license without joining a club – something I really have little interest in right now.
I wonder what will be next in this journey…?
The Vicious Cycle 
If I had one of those, I would leave it lying around casually quite a lot. “Oh that, yes, that’s mine.”
The next step? Winning a race?
I like your thinking. I might ‘mistakenly’ pull it out instead of my debit card at the supermarket and see what kind of reactions I get.
I’m suitably impressed!
Don’t be. All you need is 35 Euros and one could be yours, too!
What a minute – there is such a thing as carbon fiber shoe soles? What a wonderful world in which we live.
Congratulations on the license. I agree with Tootlepedal – keep it prominently displayed always!
Yes, I have them drying on the heater as we speak. if you look I think you’ll find just about anything you want in carbon fiber in your bike shop these days.
What about club racing? Is there a race license? In Australia, Cycling Australia (who look suspiciously like robber barons) charge the very low priced rate of AU$300 (just about) for 12 months of elite racing license.
Robbery, no?
Yes, they have different prices for different categories, so Juniors are 72 Euros and Cat 1 is 175. A little less ‘robberish’ here, it seems. Are races themselves expensive there, too?