Originally Posted by
TimothyH
Looks matter.
People match all kinds of things every day without giving it hardly a thought. It isn't wrong to want things to look nice.
Insulting people and cursing because someone has matching components is presumption.
When I was thinking about buying 105 pedals (the rest of my stuff is 105), I decided to look at what pedals other people on my team were using. I realized I couldn't tell. Their feet were on the pedals most of the time, and the differences between 105 and Ultegra SPD-SL are impossible for my old eyes to pick up when they aren't.
But I bought 105s anyway because they were on sale and they have a shiny metal plate on them.