Right on ladies!
If you're out there riding you're one of us - that really sums it up.

The other thing I always telepath to people who I think are laughing at me or my Trek 820 is this: You obviously don't know what I have done and been through and overcome to get to this point; because if I told you would fall off that oh so smart machine with embarrassment and get those fancy clothes all dirty!!
I think that a lot of cyclists who you see on the road have had a long hard ride to get to the moment that you see them; and to paraphrase Lance "It's not *only* about the bike"