This is not complicated, people:
1. Ride what you like.
2. If someone rides a bike you don't like or you don't like how someone built up or modified their bike, too damn bad. Deal with it. Preferably quietly.
3. When you ride, wear what you like.
4. If you don't like what someone else wears when they ride, too damn bad. Deal with it. Preferably quietly.
5. Learn the difference between an opinion and a fact. Example: "A British threaded bottom bracket will not work in an Italian-threaded bottom bracket shell" is a fact. "Italian threaded bottoms brackets are stupid" is an opinion; agree with it or not, but it is still an opinion.
6. Most of this thread consists of opinions. Passionately held opinions, perhaps, but opinions. Not immutable truths and not facts. Stop treating opinions as if they are facts.
7. For pretty much every opinion you have, someone else will disagree with it. Deal with it. Preferably quietly
Now everybody joins hands, sing "Kubayah," shake hands with the person to your left and to your right, and go home.
Or better yet, sing "
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