Originally Posted by
Murmur1979
I re-read it and I don't think I was ironic at all (might have been in subsequent posts, in reaction to some replies). Maybe I worded it the wrong way. I concede the title was certainly exaggerated.
There was another recent thread that had the same sort of "look at all the people with expensive bikes that I'm passing/more-comfortable on my cheap/old bike" that the mods deleted.
("Ironic" was the wrong word to use.)
Originally Posted by
Murmur1979
My feeling is that the attitude of newbies you bemoan, is mirrored on the other side by ridiculing or snarky replies which aren't often necessary. But that is, after all, common on all online forums.
What the "other side" is doing (
in this thread) is not a "mirror". It's a
consequence of the attitude of
some newbies.