Back to blue?

It's an interesting point skydancer, however all sorts of communities celebrate, mourn or otherwise single-out those affiliated with them in ways that to an outsider looking in may seem excessive or odd or not not very important. All of these are reasonable and normal reactions as the people outside the community don't have a frame of reference to understand it. However it can be very valuable to the community itself - and the people singled out - that these practices take place. To me the black logo is up in respect to the fallen rider, but it is also (and maybe I'm going on a limb here) a way for us to mourn a bit together. Sometimes I think the rider down thread is the only sincere thread on the site. Anyway I don't see it as a way to exclude others but rather a way to recognise that many of us care deeply about the same things and that we are in (in some ways) united.

^this. I'd add that I don't think that the black logo does dangerise cycling. LFGSS regulars are unlikely to be put off cycling by tragic news about other cyclists, while passing visitors to the site are unlikely to even notice the colour change so it won't put them off (it took me several months of coming here to work out what it is all about).

The LFGSS response to cycling injuries and fatalies on the road is admirably sincere, proportionate and does not degenerate into (or is clearly separated from) speculation and blaming. I have seen it referred to very positively on other cycling forums. I understand your desire not to "dangerise" cycling, but I think this thread probably does more to that end than the black logo itself and I find the haste to revert it to blue slightly distasteful.