Sadly, Stucky, the very fact that you knew/know who Grant Petersen is, and can even throw in an allusion to Just Ride makes you, like the rest of us posting here in Bike Forums on this subject, a faux-Fred (not to be confused with NüFred).

It is our tragedy as post-Modern 'unracers' that we can never actually be Fred. Being Fred is a state of being that is not conscious of itself; one can no more 'aspire to be Fred' or measure the state of one's Fredliness than one can 'plan spontaneity'. We are in a state of permanent alienation from our true identity -- living on the far side of a gap in our consciousness that forever condemns us to subject Fred to our gaze -- thus making Fred the object of our cycling desire.

We long to unite with, to be at one with, that-which-we-are-not. In this respect we are more alike Poseur than we would care to admit -- we are as it were the obverse of the Poseur counterfeit coin, condemned to a false existence. Indeed, one might argue that NüFred shares this essential quality with Fred: he/she is blithely unconscious of his/her ontological status.