Originally Posted by I-Like-To-Bike
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.
Were you once attacked and beat up by a group of "serious" cyclists wearing the most expensive Lycra and riding $6,000 Sevens all the time chanting, "The only good bicyclist is a serious road bicyclist?"