>>1987098I think most of this happens in your head man.
Unracers will fit in peripherally on a relatively inexpensive used bike. This is where most of the style comes from, and it's also what most of the bikes of even the most serious proponents will be.
The idea of unracing is that racing is so ubiquitous that it requires a counterpoint, not that it is in itself invalid. Imo racing and unracing are mutually benificial.
The real snobbery exists towards department store bikes and uninformed consumers and it's mostly coming from mechanics who have real and sensible experience of why those things are not good for people.
Now trying to make your premium boutique product attractive enough to sell through marketing is just grifting. There's really no other way to go about it. Imo you can look down at that sort of activity as stupid and meaningless in the same way as you can look at almost everything as stupid and meaningless, lets say we reduce the world to only what isn't stupid and what are we even left with, all culture is pretty much gone. Everything is stupid and you're just being conveniently selective about your grouchiness.
