Originally Posted by livedarklions

I also think it's fair game when somebody posts "advice" that says "if you don't have x, this terrible thing will happen" to post that I've ridden 10s of thousands of miles without x, and this terrible thing never happens. I find a lot of that stuff on BF, and I do think a lot of those false beliefs about the dangers of not-x are marketing driven. YMMV, and I'm done arguing about this.