Is Bike forums not the place for someone looking for support as he/she seeks to accomplish personal goals? What's the opposite of noob; jaded perhaps?
the opposite of noob in this case is someone who has paid enough attention to what the experienced folks have said so as to not take offense at every little thing.
you might learn something from some of the more "jaded" writers here. Some of them have been doing the bike thing for a very long time.