Originally Posted by
wphamilton
Are you addressing me? I didn't label anyone a "poser", unless you mean people who buy high end racing bikes and don't race them are posers. I did say they probably don't care about racing or racers, I don't think that makes them posers either. So I don't follow your question.
I've heard many people talk about the feel and other intangibles. I've never had anyone tell me what you've heard, that they bought a high end bike to emulate racers. Maybe there is a cultural thing going on, between here and Oregon?
You are changing words around. You did not use the word "poser", you used "seeking cachet" and "emulate racers", which amounts to the same thing. IOW, they are "posing" as something they are not. This is not what most of these people are doing.
Nobody wants to
emulate racers. They do
aspire to the racing culture and they admire the personalities that make up that culture, even if they don't partake. They want to challenge themselves and they want to compete against others; this is the essence of racing and the reason why they buy racing bikes.
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