Originally Posted by
wphamilton
How do you know this, that their purchases are "aspirational"? How do you even know that they admire racers? I certainly don't know, but I can see several other motivations.
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Why is this so important to you that you label people who buy high dollar bikes "posers"? You pose a question, state that it's in earnest, then attack my answer and dismiss it out of hand. I'm left wondering about your motivations in this discussion.
My answer comes from people I've talked to.