Originally Posted by webist
If the self-appointed expert is establishing a goal to achieve an exalted state of their own description and applying it only to his or herself, why would the opinion of a lurking, obstreperous and truculent poster matter?
If applying the goals of the exalted state only to his or herself I can't imagine why anyone else would care. A lurking, obstreperous and truculent poster would object
only when the exalted goals are extrapolated as the required or expected goals to the mystical population of "serious cyclists", and conversely used to measure the worthiness/seriousness of anyone else's cycling activities.