I am having difficulty parsing that statement. Are you saying that you think that non-pros using 53/39 causes rage or that non-pros not using a 53/39 causes rage?
Was there any point to your post other that trying (unsucessfully) to cause controversy?
There isn't really much marketing directed exclusively to pros, but there is certainly marketing directed at "racers", or just performance-minded people in general (retro-grouches often call these people "pretend racers")
Oh well, I managed to get someone angry at
me...
Where are all the people who evangelise about compact cranksets?
Anyway, glad to hear that 42 tooth is acceptable, awesome riding the alps on one! It seems enough gears to me, just short rolling hills around here.
A friend of mine collects antique bikes. He explained that when deraillers first appeared, people were so used to riding fixed that they only wanted 1T gap between each gear. Then someone discovered that if there's a 3Tdifference between the chainrings, you got a spread equivalent to 10 gears each with 1T difference. You just had to keep jiggling back and forth between chainrings to keep in the right gear.