Just remember that not everyone comes to bicycling from the same place. Look at the Bike Forums. The Bicycle Mechanics and Classic & Vintage forums are full of people who love to tweak on their machines. They can spend hours researching just the right components for their bike.

The various racing forums have a lot of people who are not happy unless they are at max speed with their heart pounding and their legs on the verge of oxygen deficit.

The utility cycling forum has folks who want to do the most mundane tasks on their bicycles and buy or make some very strange bikes to haul stuff around.

The Clydesdales & Athenas forum has a lot of people whose main goal on a bicycle is to lose weight.

Then there are a lot of young folks in Alt Bike Culture and other places who like a bicycle for stylin'.

A lot of it depends on what you want out of bicycling and why you do it.