I'm reading your lengthy post a bit at a time. It's too much nonsense for me to take in all at once.

Ken "You have several times criticized me for being a showoff because I ride a $900 bicycle yet perhaps your preferred lifestyle could be better served by one that cost two and a half times as much as mine cost."

This bit is slanderous. I have never reacted to your bicycle in any way. I don't even know what you ride, when I said my Marin was nicer that was an assumption. If you have something nicer than my Marin Mill Valley, let's see it! Apologies if you've posted about your $900 bicycle before and I didn't notice. I spent four figures on a bicycle in the 1980s. I haven't spent as much since, but spending $900 on a bike in today's market sounds very ordinary, not something I would react to.

You have absolutely no reason to think I consider $900 too much to spend on a bicycle!