Originally Posted by
ddeadserious
I have a friend who always shows me cool bikes, and my response is never "cool, that's a nice bike". It's always "that crankset is a stupid color" or "saddle and bar tape don't match", etc. He eventually got mad and goes "Do you have something bad to say about every bike I show you?!", so now I ask if he wants to hear what I don't like about it before I say anything. This forum creates bike snobs.
Agreed. And when you compound that with the fact that my career forces me to have an insane attention to detail and to be hyper-critical, it makes it even worse.