"doublespeak and retro grouch/know-it-all attitude from GP is what
torques a lot of attitudes."

I think a lot of that is in the eye of the beholder. If anything he said changed the course of the cycling ship of state by a minute of angle I would be stuned. He has his opinion, like everyone else. Why would anything he say torque someone else?

Take something like his advocaccy of wool. I have a friend who sustained extreme burns all over his upper body and his recovery was rendered much more difficult because of all the high tech poly pro stuff he was wearing. Funny really because he used to sell heavy wool hunting garments. Some kind of problems affected the british marines during the falklands war. In ice climbing wool isn't slipery on the surface of the ice, to the extent that at one time they sold wool bottomed shoes, for mountain climbing, sorta like the fishermen use. There are arguments for wool. How many lycra sales are really going to be lost? Why should a discusion of any attribute of a product threaten someone unless their views are rigid to an unhealthy degree.