My gut reaction to this was "no". Then I read the thread and found that a lot of cyclists seem to have experienced them. Is it the result of cycling after all? Or it is just so common that "everybody" gets them and they will invariably snag some cyclists?

The only people I've ever known to get them were people who put on some extra weight and kept it around for a while, myself included. I wasn't cycling at the time, nor could I have even imagined cycling with "the piles". Unless I had speakers on the bike in which I could play a horror movie soundtrack with a bunch of shrieking violins. Kudos for your tenacity.