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Particularly with cycling, I always wondered why people would say justify their love of cycling with statements including fitness, self challenge, enjoying the
by _carbyau_ 5y ago
Particularly with cycling, I always wondered why people would say justify their love of cycling with statements including fitness, self challenge, enjoying the outdoors.
I haven't heard any say they wanted to be regional champion.
If you compete with yourself, then changing your gear makes it hard to measure if you are getting better. Sometimes I think we compete with others when we don't need to.
- emerged 5y agoFitness / goal oriented cyclists have objective means to measure progress, for example pedals or cranks which measure your actual power output. This combined with your body weight is a ubiquitous measure of progress. More expensive bikes are more comfortable and may boost your speed a bit depending on circumstance. To assume that people who decide to invest a bit in a healthy, fun activity are ignorant of such basic metrics seems pretty cynical. I would urge you to dig deeper because there is an enormous amount of value in this type of investment.