And where are people to go to find out the truth? I was under the assumption that this forum was a place that people could go to learn the truth about bikes.

Are they going to learn from you? Since I've been on this forum, I've read your attacks on anyone who disagreed with you, calling them "too cocky and young to understand", saying they have a "narrow mind" because they disagreed with you, condescendingly suggesting that what you had to say was "to techno" for one forum member, calling the same member "blinded", and here labeling as "ignorant" an opinion with foundation in truth, and then calling those that dislike Shimano "racist", except Khoun of course. As you clarified, that was "just" a blanket statement. Name calling and intimidation seem to be your instructional tools.

You've fomented false rumor, "rumblings are the Madone is to flexible", gross mistatements of technological fact, "Al(uminum) has no fatigue limit; it just snaps and fails", and "spoilt" (is that a word in Southend? What is the "Uni" in Southend anyway?) many threads with your cynical bile, "Hinault is the biggest piece of human excrement..."

You want people to find the truth, to learn? Well "we don't need no dark sarcasm...in the classroom", timb-er.