What's the problem here? Isn't it just varying degrees of piss-taking?
As someone who rides all sorts of bikes, with all sorts of folk, it's tiring to read the same old jibes rolled out about cycling folks, purely down to what they ride or wear. Sometimes it's those who wear a bit more PPE and prefer riding downhill, thereby having a bike that's often too heavy to be a pleasure to ride uphill. Sometimes it's people on road bikes in lycra that are either too fast (clearly obsessive) or too slow to be wearing lycra and riding a race bike. More often recently, it's people riding gravel bikes who, being a couple of decades younger than most on here (me included) are more attuned to what's fashionable. They're still enjoying riding bikes and probably doing no-one any harm. Of all the events I've enjoyed recently, the friendliest, most inclusive bunch of folks have been at Grinduro - surely the premiere event for gravelw@nkers worldwide? They're invariably a really friendly, interesting bunch, even the ones who are seriously handy on a bike.
It's not a problem as such, but could very well give the wrong impression of this place. It's just worth keeping in balance.
https://youtu.be/uDMdcC63Z0s
really, just to be clear)
