Functional bikes. Not Porn not Anti

...guys always go overkill. Like the guys my mum works with who immediately trade their Porsche for a Range as soon as their wife gets pregnant....

...or like 10st guys needing 36h deep rim wheelsets...or having to have a bulletproof ck headset to ride around the East End...etc...etc...

It's just what guys like to do.

depends if its east end London or east end Glasgow.
The latter ideally your bike should be equipped with tank tracks; some potholes actually DO go to the centre of the earth, with sulfur smoke and brimstone spouting out on any given evening ;)