I did read all of the posts. If you had, you'd understand the writer was not talking about ritual, not even in jest. I would call your attempt at something, I won't call it humor, just plain hyperbolic cr$p. He didn't say anything about what everyone must do, or anything about membership in the cult, and didn't even resort to soaking it until it just took too dang long, and that's only to one out of 5 of HIS saddles. Plus that's just what one person did, and you generalize it to a whole group of sincere cyclists.