I have a nice bike, but I know very well that somebody like Lance Armstrong could make me look like a terrible cyclist even if he was using a $50 bike from Pago Pago. The bicyclist with good conditioning and knowledge of bicycles can always outshine somebody else with poor conditioning even if he has a $6000 bike. I like to look at beautiful bikes, though. But snobbish people are ridiculous, and suffer from poor social training and a probable inferiority complex.