Originally Posted by bac

Actually, many posts (and users) have been zapped for what some users consider to be offensive posts. As my grandmother used to say ... if you can't say anything nice ... well, you know the rest.

From the forum guidelines:

We?re a community of cyclists, from different backgrounds and with different perspectives on sports and life. At all times, we expect our members to respect that.

Attacking a group of people (in this case, as you so eloquently put it, those "crusty-a** hippies) is not being respectful, and it certainly isn't being nice. Grow up.