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Road Racing
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In one sense, road racing is any racing that is done on roads, but the more usual sense is that of a mass-start race from one place to another, or possibly a loop course with long laps (as opposed to a criterium.) Since road races tend to be longer than criteriums, and the packs tend to be smaller and less dense than those in criteriums, bicycles designed for road racing tend to favor comfort more than criterium machines do, but to be less maneuverable. They may have lower bottom brackets, since there is less need to pedal through corners in a road race than there is in a short-course criterium.
