I was referring to some posters – quite a few of them over the years – who come here looking for validation before spending rather significant (to them, it seems) sums of money on equipment that will gain them, at most, a tiny fraction of a mile per hour in additional speed, if that. And then the posters report that they don’t even do spirited group rides, much less races.

If you fall into that category, then yeah, I can see why you might feel that it was an insult.