This is a great conversation and reminds me of a maxim in my industry; "some people buy equipment so they can make music, others make music so they can buy equipment." Neither are wrong, both achieve satisfaction from their chosen path but the approaches are polar opposites.
What does worry me is that bicycling is going the way of the HiFi industry where "anoraks" who insist that you can't have good sound without $500 cables have destroyed the middle ground for equipment and denied many the experience of quality home listening. You now have the high-end, high-$$ market & box systems from Costco with almost nothing between them. If the bicycle industry continues to "innovate" to the point where the technology and price point drives away the more casual rider they will find themselves in the same position; selling expensive bikes to a stagnant market with the rest of the riding population buying from the big box stores. On Saturday, February 12, 2022 at 12:47:53 AM UTC-6 divis...@gmail.com wrote: > More specifically, "bloody bike anorak"; BBA for short. > > Peter "the backdoor invasion of CR nomenclature" Adler > Berkeley, CA/USA > > On Friday, February 11, 2022 at 10:37:20 AM UTC-8 Patrick Moore wrote: > >> The technical term is "anorak." >> >> Patrick Moore, who gets a kick out of old fashioned Brit slang. >> >> On Fri, Feb 11, 2022 at 11:12 AM Ben Adrian <bunny...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> ... nerds ... >> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/c3a52a52-db7b-4a84-a22d-f63a59337367n%40googlegroups.com.
