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I get what you're saying.
But at the same time I am coming up to 40 soon, and anecdotally there is something happening to people around me right now, in my age group, and it's all men. Lots of anxiety disorders, depression cases, hospitalisations to the mental health unit, two suicides in my social circle recently and I myself had to stop working because of burnout.
Just because they're white and reasonably well off doesn't mean they're not going through some shit. At least they're riding rather than blasting through the hills on expensive sports cars.
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I don't doubt that some of these riders are super quick - they dedicate a lot of time to riding. The rub for me is it's generally wealthy middle age white dudes (not all, but generally) talking about 'suffering' and how 'it's hard' with no sense of irony. They have an expensive hobby which they enjoy, great. But stop trying to imply you're some how going through some turmoil to achieve your goals. /endrant
Also Rapha's brand plays into all of this so they could at least stop wearing shite kit.