Originally Posted by
Spoonrobot
I felt the same way. Glibly told to HTFU by guys who quit the entire sport a year or two later.
Right?! I have a friend that used to rib me about being a fair-weather rider, then quit riding altogether when his headset bearings locked up with rust and wallowed out the carbon headtube of his $8000 bike. He went back to ultramarathon running after that. Delicious karma.