My faith in our community was restored yesterday on the ride home. I met a guy riding a nice red/white Cervelo and noted he had the new DA cranks on the bike. Just the cranks. I pulled up along side him and said, "nice cranks" and asked how he liked them. What ensued was a brief conversation about how easy it was to maintain them, how stiff they were and overall how much he really liked them. The whole time we paced each other at relatively easy pace talking back and forth. He was pretty friendly and I never once got the inclination that I should just "go away". I thanked him as we eventually headed in our different directions.