Originally Posted by Nicodemus
Seems you're grasping at straws with the "I think different, I don't believe generalizations" role. Trying to pin it on some skewed influence due to BF is just weird, too.
BF does seem to attract a specific slice of the cycling population and some who think these posters represent all there is to biking in the U.S. i.e. the abuse of the terms "we" and "us." To read BF pages you would think most bicyclists buy bicycles at high end LBS' or EBay, use pedal shoe "systems", obsess about Styrofoam hats and /or Vehicular Cycling, are impressed by multi $K custom bikes with fancy lugs and paint schemes (or components with the "right stuff" and proper racing culture provenance) ride or are aware of the special joy of "fixies," ride on "training" rides, use bike computers and record their miles and speeds down to the tenths of miles, etc., etc.