I’m not just a cyclist, I’m a bike-ist… I love riding bikes but I also like messing around with bikes. I think on forums you’re going to get mostly bike-ists because people that are just cyclists won’t be spending that much time on forums.
I guess I’ve got a lot of affection for my bikes- you probably don’t keep one for 20 years if you don’t. They’re all tools to do a job and that’s always the number one choice for what happens to them, but that doesn’t stop some of them from being very well equipped, colourcoordinated tools 😉
(the 20-year-old one is a bit different, but I put as much effort into making it cheap, unkillable and unstealable as I put into making the new ones excellent)