And if your "rules" of bike purchasing applied to anyone but you, that might be fair.

As for the "personal attack," I don't really think I was making any kind of attack. I don't think you had any true malicious intent by what you were saying, but you made it very clear that you had a problem with this woman riding her Cervelo--enough of a problem that you had to single her out as an example of a pervasive problem in the sport of triathlon. I'm not sure how you could possibly construe that as anything but you imposing your own set of rules about who deserves what equipment.