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STRM and DBAD are not equals. DBAD confronts your worst fears about bikes and makes them palatable: that the bikes you own are exceptional. That they cannot be recreated. That the sums of your parts are not greater than the full build. DBAD reveals to all of us that there are people, deeply misguided people, who are watching your builds, judging you, who feel overly passionate about the prospective stopping power descending Toys Hill. DBAD reveals that in fact there is not a man somewhere in California who rides on balloon tyres taste-making bike technology that has virtually no application in real life; that this man in California exists only in your mind, and it is not him but your brain that become the arbiter of what is 'good', what is 'fast', what is 'rad' and, most importantly, what you need to stop yourself.
STRB is merely a sad a troglodyte, stuck at the back of the Socratic cave naming the shadows on the wall.