Accusing me of "attacking the messenger" while taking a cheap shot at an entire city kind of loses you the high ground, bro.

Seriously, though, I will cop to not being nice. And I will even apologize: sorry, I was a little over the top at times. But arrogant? Here's how I see this: dude comes in with no experience in cyclocross and finds aspects of it don't match the image he has formed in his head. Rather than taking that as an indication that he could have something to learn about the sport, he decides that the sport should just be altered to match what he has in his head. That, to me, is the height of arrogance. And that sort of presumptuousness gets my goat, which is why I was not very polite about it. My bad - but this whole thread was very ill-conceived from the beginning and I stand by that. There's a pretty long history of efforts to prevent bunnyhopping through alterations to the course. Those efforts were ultimately abandoned. They didn't make for better racing and they didn't improve safety. This information is out there to be learned for someone who wants to take the time.