Originally Posted by
sirious94
I would, for a moment, like to disagree with this statement. I did and do not have a problem with it and I would have to agree with others that there is a bias in the reading of this thread.
I was merely attempting to point out a semi-comedic comparison of two very different athletes.
Fair enough.
I've been a member on this forum since 2005, and the single most annoying things about this place are the assumptions that get made about people who ride high-end bikes for the sake of belittling them in some story. Hell, I've had people make assumptions about my CHARACTER based on the bikes I ride. What's oozing with irony is that the people passing these judgments are the ones who claim that
the bike doesn't matter. So if it doesn't matter, how/why can you judge someone based on what they ride?
As I've mentioned before in other threads, nobody ever gets on the internet to talk about the young guy on the $12K Cervelo who dropped them like a hot rock on the climb. So yeah, I freely admit to my own bias in that regard.
I also wasn't trying to insult anyone. What I was trying to do is challenge people a bit to ask themselves 1. why they care at all what someone else is riding or how much it costs, and 2. the fact that the "rules" about who should be riding what equimpent apply only to the person making them up.
Anyway, I'm sorry about the frenzy I managed to start in this thread, and if something was taken personally I apologize.