bonj said:
But they're not 'onto a good thing'!
er, they enjoy riding them and percieve them to have benefits. That's 'onto a good thing' in my book..
You're not grasping the reason I'm for this rant about them - the reason they annoy me is not because I feel threatened by them but because the riders and proponents of them just annoy me with their false pretences - the very phrase "onto a good thing" suggests some notion of 'enlightenment' -
'Onto a good thing' in no way implies a superior level of enlightenment, it just means making a good personal choice.
there's no enlightenment, no 'greater awareness' that these people possess - it's just a little gang of people who feel they should be looked up to (and for some reason completely unbeknown to me, are!) for having a weird and wacky fundamental design variation for variation's sake.
Who said recumbent riders demand to be looked up to? You seem to be the only person thinking this.
It's not their particular choice that I'm putting down in itself, it's just the attitude of these loons. You reserve the right to have a rant about the attitude of 'all' car drivers, so I reserve the right to tar recumbent riders with the mad brush.
I don't believe I've ever tarred all car drivers with the same brush. I don't happen to own a car, but I've frequently driven one, and most of my friends drive them, and a lot of the people I see out on the road drive them perfectly sensibly. If a driver happens to endanger me, or someone else, I'll have a go at them. But you are having a go at recumbent riders for the simple reason that they enjoy something you don't.
Ok, Uncle Phil, I'm breathing....