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Mooks (though I suspect that is not your real name): I've read your post a couple of times now and frankly it sickens me. I know people will think I'm 'hating' or being cruel to a 'newbie' but...
Firstly you say you went out on a geared bike. Ofcourse people do ride geared bikes but normally they have the decency to keep it to themselves. This is a *fixed gear and single speed *forum. Now it wouldn't be so bad had you posted a lot of pictures and written in excrutiating detail in the Current Projects thread about this 'build' and given other people the chance to share their 'expertise' and half baked prejudices with you: that thread is all some people have in their lives yet you apparently don't care. You just buy a biker and ride it and then have the gall to write about it later.
I've had a look at your profile page and I see that a good proportion of your posts are entirely unrelated to cycling. Many of them are nothing but 'humour'. Which leads me to ask: what sort of a twisted freak are you and do you feel proud of yourself? Daring to flaunt your interest in a world beyond chain-lines may mark you out as some kind of 'interesting person' in the mire that you inhabit but not here sonny Jim. Do you, quite rightly many would think, feel deeply ashamed and is it infact this justified self-loathing that you project on to cycling?
Furthermore you say you rode just 20 miles. Entirely plausible but do you think that sort of candour is fitting on this forum? Couldn't you at least have claimed to have averaged a speed just one notch above what might be expected of a professional rider? You're inability to guild the lilly is all too revealing of your mental squalor and depravity.
So, 'Mooks', I would suggest that you take a good hard look at yourself. Are you really sure you belong here? You seem lacking in self-regard and borderline-autistic obsession with detail and, most revoltingly, you would appear to have no desire to tell the world that you have changed your bar tape or moved your saddle back a centimetre. All you do is fucking ride your bike like that was the really important thing. People have been banned for less and, well, I'll say no more.