This is crazy.

I started this post to celebrate how people from all walks of life are enjoying cycling, it seemed to me that more affluent people these days are participating than in the past. I HAVE NO PROBLEM WITH THIS.
I love looking at all the bling.

I certainly wasn't implying that hard working blue collar riders are tougher and better riders, or that white collar riders cannot achieve the same standard, nor am I belittling the admirable work professional people do. What manual labour does is it conditions the body for endurance, a durable strength that one will not achieve by simply riding their bike or pumping iron. In my experience as a hard working manual labourer, I've seen muscle heads that are good for a few days, but generally can't cope with the daily grind that hardened workers endure.

In the past that's what competitive cycling ranks were generally made up off, so if any white collar workers on BF still don't understand what I'm saying and are still getting offended, I would have thought your higher level of education and enlightenment would have made my point easier to comprehend than for us grunts who sweat to earn our every dollar. I have already implied that I love how cycling brings us all together on the same level.

Stop being so precious.