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If you could press a button and it would perpetually make all future bikes you ride into the absolute most perfectly optimized, cost-no-object bike for the current conditions (whether city riding, rural roads, mountain biking, grabble, competition or leisure), in absolute comfort and efficiency, and perfect reliability, but in return you look like this guy to everyone else any time you're riding, would you do it?
You could hop on a walmart MTB in a velodrome and it would turn into a world record setting track bike. You could hop on a bike boom road bike with horrible ergonomics and 19mm tires at your beach house, and it would turn into a comfy cruiser with a relaxed geometry and big tires. A shitty useless dutch bike turns into a normal high quality modern endurance geometry road bike when you're commuting to work. Any situation, any bike becomes the objective ideal for purpose, in terms of fit, contact points, geometry, gearing, you name it, it's all perfect. But you look like this guy to everyone else. And all photographs and video taken of you also looks like this guy.
If you wouldn't press the button you aren't a real cyclist.
