Like I said before, no harm, no foul. I am not insulted and I hope that I didn't insult you.

As you said in your OP, you are not here to bash any road bikers, and but you just don't understand why we would want to ride in traffic, and that you think road biking is impractical. You asked a very valid question, and a number of us have answered your question very honestly, and essentially what we have told you is that we simple don't see road riding in the same way that you do.


But if you went on the road bike forum and started a thread titled "Mountain biking, I dont quite get it", and then you said that you are not there to bash any mountain bikers, but that you think mountain biking is impractical, and then went on to say that you don't get why a mountain biker would bomb down a near-vertical and rutted singletrack that is bordered by trees and huge rocks at speed and then repeatedly have to loft their bike 10-20' through the air to avoid parts of the trail that you can't even ride over, and then asked why they don't wear more protective gear and why they are riding at such higher-speeds in such an isolated and unpopulated area and not on some calmer back road or country road, and then asked why would they want to ride in an environment where you might have be helicoptered out of if you crash really hard, then you would have gotten some of the same replies that you got here:

- to you it seems dumb to even be there.
- to you it seems like if we insist on being there, we're doing something wrong.
- to you it seems like there is no point.
- if you think it's stupid then that's fine, we're all entitled to our opinions.
- what we're doing is perfectly legal,so we just don't see what the problem is.
- we guess that anyone who enjoys a dangerous sport that you don't is any idiot.
- experience teaches us signs to look for that help us determine how much of a risk they are taking.
- the guys riding "Crazy" in such conditions seem crazy to you, but to them, they know what they are doing.
- the guys you talk about might seem crazy to you, but they apparently know what they are doing.
- you obviously don't get it, and you probably never will.
- everyone is not like you, and some of us don't ride for "recreation" because to us cycling is a sport.

Again, no harm no foul, but you don't ride a road bike so you don't get it. No worries. Get a road bike and all of your questions will be answered.

Ride Safe!