All of the above doesn't, of course, mean that TTs arent competitive. They're intensely so, and people can get very wound up in them, both in the search for #PersonalBests #PBs and in the search for prize money, status and the right to see 'I beat that <insert name here> once...' Here's a long but fun video of the night SIr Bradley WIggins turned up to race a TT on open roads near Hull against a typical TT field https://youtu.be/7c7IxbGLy2o