I'm with you Doc. I've never liked the threads/posts suggesting that someone doesn't "deserve" an expensive bike. I once posted some race pics and some d-bag flamed me for having expensive equipment and being too fat to deserve it. He then started a thread in the Road Bike forum about people like me. So...I tend to PM him with pics of anything new that I buy.

Honestly, I think we should be more harsh on people who don't think twice about spending $2K on their new flat screen TV but won't spend half that on a bike.