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Originally Posted by Roody
Why do you say Elly is inexperienced? She has been writing about bikes for 15 years now, according to online bios. Why should she "step aside" for more experienced cyclists?
Writing about it isn't the same as actually doing it. One of the reasons I got out of "advocacy" all those years ago was because the whole scene was dominated by people who rode very little (if at all), and simply shouted down everyone else because they had the time to keep writing letters and articles endlessly, and were so dogmatic they refused to even listen to real world experience from people who were out riding every day. I'm sure many of those have been in the game for decades, and I'm sure I spend more time riding last year than most of them combined. I even had people at some meetings refer to the term "experienced cyclist" with disdain, as though a person's experience was a reason not to listen to them. WTF???
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