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I was speaking in the context of equipment choice when I repeated the "enthusiast" link to the preceding comparison to cars.
To many drivers, the details of their vehicle's mechanics and of traditional driving skills are nil, but to the enthusiast...
As one example, driving enthusiasts may effect actual control/trajectory dynamics of their vehicle using their clutch and transmission, just as a roadie might be approaching their hill attacks with well-timed, premeditated sequences of shifting and rising off the saddle as they perhaps are passing riders going up through a set of switchbacks. And in urban riding, as I mentioned about the guy who could "sprint" ahead of traffic, enthiusiasm was clearly evident in his efficiency.
It's the additional and more-compex involvement that I see as distinguishing those I might term as "enthusiasts", though I or another rider might define a completely different set of parameters, depending on circumstances. Many riders today for example are watching watt-meters and such, and are no less enthusiasts for it.
Last edited by dddd; 11-15-18 at 02:34 PM.