It might seem that way to William in his imagination, but I thoroughly enjoy what I do, and understanding it only adds to the enjoyment.
It also adds to the performance.
I have gained a lot of effieciency and speed from constant refinement, and constant refinement has come from constant study.


People who want to excel at something, or enjoy it to the max, study it.
They don't study it out of some duty or anal obsession, but out of fascination with the subject.

I look at charts of chainrings and cogs and the resulting gear inches and think about things like riding through the Cascade Mountains and what gear combination would let me do that comfortably.
I study the known to gain insight into the unknown.

If you like airplanes you study airplanes and all the silly numbers associated with flight.

If you like women, you study women, often in great detail.

Some people who really, really like fixed gear bikes talk about goofy things like gear inches and the fine, maybe even nonexistent differences between cranksets.

Clearly not William's cup of tea.

I can live with that.

Can William live with it?