As a teacher, I've had to stop myself many a time from grading a kid on attitude instead of performance. It was always rare... and gratifying... to have a student with a different outlook or idea who could also reasonably support his assertion.

What a boring place if we all carefully tiptoed around being agreeable and similar in outlook.

Given our ages and the fact we're still "out there" when others aren't-- despite our arthritis, old injuries, vaious medications, thinner skin (road rash on an old guy is much nastier!), etc. etc....... that should unite FiftyPlussers more than trivial differences over frame material or high-tech/low-tech.

My elderly dad used to say that after a while it doesn't matter what it looks like as long as it still mostly works.