Cult of the Bicycle

• I've been caught and passed on Foothills Expressway this week by -
  • A large fella on a Trek Navigator hybrid bike with monster panniers;
    
  • A teen school girl with big foppy sneakers on a blue, full suspension Bike Shaped Object (BSO) with a squeaky chain;
    
  • Mr Bean;
    
  • A short octogenarian Asian woman toting her great-grandson on a mamachari; and even
    
  • Chris Cowan.
  
  
• Getting passed by these people is bad for my ego as a professional bicycling blogger, and it's bad for my reputation. My readers absolutely depend on my good name for their daily dose of bike news and commentary.
  
• I'm clearly a better, stronger, and faster cyclist than all of these people. My jersey, socks, gloves, helmet, shades, shoes and bar tape all match, after all!
  
• I ride a Specialized Roubaix, which is like the comfort bike of road bikes for old people.
  
• Ken Conley, who is test riding the $6,700 Storck Absolutist 0.9 (15 lbs, SRAM Red, Zipp wheels, "stiff yet comfortable" which I suppose is another way of saying "laterally stiff yet vertically compliant"), writes "I shattered some PRs on the bike," clearly demonstrating that it is indeed about the bike.
  
• Scientific research clearly demonstrates that newer bikes are faster.

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