What you're actually doing is putting yourself in an opportune position to compare two functionally similar bikes of different lineage. Imagine the smug satisfaction you'll feel when you enter a thread on disc/rim brakes with that 'of the two of my bikes that are for all intents and purposes equivalent, I prefer the...', commanding authority and experience the rest of us withot enough shed space to double up on bikes with the same function...
What you're actually doing is putting yourself in an opportune position to compare two functionally similar bikes of different lineage. Imagine the smug satisfaction you'll feel when you enter a thread on disc/rim brakes with that 'of the two of my bikes that are for all intents and purposes equivalent, I prefer the...', commanding authority and experience the rest of us withot enough shed space to double up on bikes with the same function...