Originally Posted by Ben Cousins
The PCO is a performance/cost obsessive
He carefully chooses cycling products that give him the best quality performance for the lowest price.
He regards typical brands with disdain.
He likes to stand out from the crowd.
He does not own a Trek.
Vanity of vanity saith the Preacher,… all is vanity.
Or, with apologies to the Bard:
A pose by any other name ... is still a pose.
Putting aside the fact that OCP, and I assume PCO, are entirely for fun, at the extremes one is internally driven (either on an aesthetic or performance basis), in which case there is no posing, or externally driven (i.e., considers the impact on or opinion of others) in which case everything is posing, including the reverse chic of disdaining posh bikes.
Most of us fall somewhere in between.
Thus, many OCP will ride their sweet, poseriffic bikes like all hell at the STP.