Originally Posted by
PeteHski
No contention there. The usual contention to any new tech is "I don't need no stinking new tech and anyone who does is just a slave to the evil bike industry" usually followed by references to their vast wisdom and how they survived before whatever new tech arrived. Then for good measure topped of with a list of reasons why the new tech is obviously inferior to whatever it replaced and pros are only using it because they are paid to do so. etc.
Right, point I was making was that I would present my preference in such a way as to make it clear that I wasn't intending to contend with anyone else's, and then someone would try to argue with my admittedly completely subjective matter of taste.
I think a lot of the contention here is when people see "I like x" or "I don't like x", they automatically hear a declaration of war on their own preferences.
I will say that I see a lot of people referring to what pros do and use in contexts that are completely alien to the way pros ride. When I get 35 years younger and have an entirely different body type, I'll give a rat's butt what they do.