Originally Posted by
joe932
You don't like slang like "brifter" but you like slang like "fred".
By the way, are you a cat 2 racer?
Again, Fred denotes something specific. It is a useful term.
I stopped racing a few years ago. I rode at or above Cat 2 for a couple of decades and have ridden or raced in more than a dozen countries on three continents.
That doesn't make my opinion any more valid, it is still just an opinion.