Originally Posted by
Brian Ratliff
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.
I misunderstood you then. When you said they aspire to ride like the racers, and to train like them, I took that literally to mean emulate them.
Aspiring to perform
as well as them, or as closely to as possible, I can see that if that's what you meant.