I agree with you, John. Everything about this hobby is fun, and I'm always learning new information by reading these posts. Why not live and let live. Some bikes/components are like works of art, worthy of a wall, or a ride on a warm sunny day. Plenty of my bikes get ridden a lot, and some are just fun to have around. All types of riding is fun. Some components are like jewelry, fun to look at and discuss. Finding all the original parts for a bike is fun, and rebuilding for my specific use is fun. Building and repairing in general is fun.Trading/selling bikes and components is fun, like the time I sold you that Suntour Cyclone partial gruppo you hadn't seen boxed together before, at a swap meet. Swap meets are fun. Have any of you seen Chris Kvale or someone of his frame-building caliber file lugs? That's fun. Solving bicycle mechanical problems is fun. Watching someone riding a bike I built or repaired is fun. Reading and talking about bikes is fun. It's all too much fun to be critical of how anyone else engages in this hobby. Al Fack, Mankato, Minnesota USA
> Does anyone else get aggravated that we have members on this list who
> declare what other people should and shouldn't do with their bikes/parts?
>
> I'm going to suggest that everyone talk freely about how *they* themselves
> like to manage their bikes and parts, and accept wholly what everyone else
> does with *their* bikes and parts... It feels so much less collegial to me
> when people follow this path.
>
> I have bikes that I ride, and I have bikes that I hang on the wall, thank
> you very much. To suggest that I am somehow being delinquent in my duty
> as custodian of that bike by not riding it is, well... self-righteous. I
> feel like I do a lot for this hobby, and I hate it when I feel like I have
> defend my choices.
>
> John Barron
> Minneapolis MN USA