I can’t figure it out. Why do so many people on this board care about what t-shirt someone else is wearing or what bike they’re riding (and how fast they’re riding it)? Are triathletes, as a general rule, so insecure that they have to constantly take inventory of everyone else that happens to exercise (or be dressed) in their proximity?
I dunno, but I’m gonna sink $10k into a custom Ti frame fully comp’d with Campy Record and the works just to keep up with your new ride 
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I guess it depends on what everyone else thinks.
You’ll still have to pedal it like everyone else, though 
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Funny how you get a sense of security and confidence when you point stuff like that publicly.
crap…
Do these tri shorts make me look fat???
Hopefully in the right places… (you big stud boy!)
It’s not triathletes, it’s human nature in general.
Funny how you get a sense of security and confidence when you point stuff like that publicly.
that was pretty good…lol.
I’m missing your point.
Ask kittycat
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I was just going to start a thread asking why there are so many threads about posers. I don’t get it. I guess triathletes want to believe they are special or something.
My mother says I’m special
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I don’t know what he meant either but I feel a lot better after publicly slamming some poor poseur for not going fast enough on his geek’d kit. Er…wait. Maybe I do know what he meant. DAMMIT! ;D
For starters: It’s human nature. Made us pretty successful on this planet.
But as you did prove very nicely with your post , will also be our doom…
You don’t post enough dude. I appreciate your insight into human society. I was mulling the fact that I always wear an ultramarathon shirt to a tri function (spaghetti dinner, seminar, etc,) and an 1/2 iron shirt to an ultra function. WTF! I am wearing a Tae Kwon Do shirt to everything from now on. Not sure that helps.
I said on a different tri-board that I felt triathletes were the most “emotionally needy and desperate for peer acceptance” athletes I have ever seen. I admit that my perception is based on internet posters, who are likely looking for much more than just triathlon advice from a message board.
It’s the exact opposite from what I expected. I figured triathletes would be the most confident, self-reliant, mentally tough, pit-bullish folks on the planet. I was way off.
Too much emphasis on what looks good, what’s cool … and not enough emphasis on what gets the job done. Really, it’s just nit-picking for nit-picking sake.
I have never seen so many questions asking for validation or support for a decision made on purchases, relationships, etc. Did everyone grow up without parents, family, friends, etc that taught you what to do and how to go about it?
Heh. I’m nearsighted so I don’t generally read race shirts, and I sure don’t know anything about bikes. Trust me, a $10 K jobbie doesn’t do a thing for me…I simply don’t know that I should be impressed.
Having said that, I do have a rule about t-shirts. If we aren’t at the gym, and you’re wearing one, you’re a loser. The end.
My mother says I’m special
so does your wife, funnily enough…;
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