if you post it, it's no longer your bike.
it's kind of like 'death of the author' but with bikes.
The essential meaning of a work depends on the impressions of the reader, rather than the “passions” or “tastes” of the writer; “a text’s unity lies not in its origins,” or its creator, “but in its destination,” or its audience.
That's a lovely sounding sentence, but subscribing to it, in the context of bicycles, is subscribing to a charter for posers.
That's a lovely sounding sentence, but subscribing to it, in the context of bicycles, is subscribing to a charter for posers.
Basically "Worry about what your audience think"