I tend to laugh it off and joke about the indoor training when the topic comes up. I honestly don’t care what anyone says.
If you want to make some friends on your group rides, sit on the front doing a long pull to get the slower group back to the group off the front. I’ve done this a few times over the years and always get thanked for doing it.
It’s amazing how little effort is needed to keep a bike running if it’s an aluminium beater with 105 components, some nice thick all weather lube, bulletproof training wheels and tires and an Ass Saver 
Mine honestly gets a 1 minute rub down with an old race t-shirt to get the worst of the crud off, and that’s about it until the next ride.
No, it’s a very fair point to be made! I hear it when I make the mistake of chatting about my training with other interested parties (I make it a habit of not talking about my training much as it’s a personal thing for me). People will roll their eyes about doing work indoors, and while I consider myself outside dominate I understand the benefit of focused indoor work. (like all of us here).
So… as I’m sure it’s been said after the 80th response, let you legs do the talking. The people scoffing at your training are about to get dropped.
That said, I could never spend 95% of my ride time on a trainer, but that’s a personal choice and I don’t have time to judge others for their training style. Carry the F on!
OR what @mcneese.chad said!
This is a good option, and one I employ. I don’t share TR stuff on Strava. I’ll share pertient Zwift and outside stuff, but I also have a number of friends who also Zwift, so they enjoy seeing some of those rides. Frankly, I give two ****s if people like how I’m riding. I like it. 
That should be the tl:dr for this thread…go ride your bike however it works for you and don’t worry about what others think or how they train.
Been a subscriber for 4 years. Dont race. Subscribed as I needed a plan to get me fit after major surgeries and years of ill health. Only tried group rides this year. They definitely required finding the right group to ride with but it did definitely help me ride for longer distances., May just be the company aspect of it but when you get a good group and can ride hard for a few hours it is very enjoyable. TR for me provides the basics for me to do to stay fit and maintain my ability to ride. Also just hope what I do leads to the ability to ride faster/longer and more often.
I’m pretty sure it’s envy based; I doubt they’d care you were using a turbo if you were slower than them.
Keep going how you’re going; I bet most of them will be extolling the virtues of TR to you this time next year.
Seriously get over it. When they come into your pain cave and talk about their outdoor riding and can’t complete McAdie+1 then you can rant. 
People are so quick to judge. Do they ever consider maybe you live somewhere with bad weather or you have a job, family?
Just ego people don’t like being beat so they try find every reason to hate on whatever they don’t like. I ride inside all the time I have a job also snow where I live but I still kill in the p1/2 field.
Just because you ride inside doesn’t mean you don’t enjoy cycling that your gym, that your hobby, and that what you do stay fit. No different than going to a gym why not just why just workout outside at the park that provide it if people are so gun ho about being outside?
I once got told that training was like cheating. I decided to drop them rather than continue listening to such idiocy.
Ironically I only started doing the turbo trainer because there were off road endurance events that I literally wouldn’t have been able to complete. My intention isn’t to beat anyone other than myself.
You say you don’t race, but you also claim to be faster than everyone around you. And you’re not tooting your own horn. I say toe a line, in an actual event, or quit making these claims. Like Benjamin said, actual race conditions put the lie to many people who THINK they’re faster than everyone. Disclaimer: I ride outdoors whenever possible but I do LOVE TR and Zwift for inclement weather, off-season training. I owe TR fully, for the ability to show up to the first race of the season ready to rock and roll, at a fitness level i’ve never acheived before. BUT, I know many indoor riders who cite fear of riding on the road as their reason for doing the majority of their training/riding inside. So that means there are less of “us” actually out on the roads, leading to less visibility and awareness by cars, so it does tend to diminish actual road riding for all our community. To each his own, to be sure, but you do seem to be making your own inflammatory claims in your posts, here. I’d say keep the rubber side down and may you always have a tailwind, but you don’t seem to be in the wind much, by your own admittance. In my own humble opinion, which is only that, if you do 95% of your riding on a trainer in your basement, you are not a CYCLIST, no matter how many watts you can generate or how fast you may or may not be, when you occasionally venture outside. Sorry.
Yeah, to me it reads like one of those “and then everyone clapped” stories.
I enjoy riding indoors and out. But there are people who absolutely hate indoor workouts. It’s the same with runners and a treadmill. They hate it even though it’s a fantastic training tool.
I get the whole outside nature thing but there are only so much birds trees and houses I can look at before it becomes boring. I rather be inside, watch movies and games and YouTube while working out.
We live in an era where it’s more fun to exclude rather than include. I recently added what I thought was an awesome photo of me covered in mud in a CX race, inspired a few people to advise me that CX is stupid, that it’s easy, and that it’s “not real racing”. I don’t need those kinds of people in my life.
Well then, they should come race with you, if it’s not real racing then it must be nice, laid back and relaxing then, right?!
lol, people
I think a vast majority of cyclists who don’t ride indoors scoff at the idea because you’re riding indoors. I train both indoors and outdoors and am of the opinion that the most enjoyable form of cycling happens outside. There’s nothing wrong with either.
You made a lot of points I agree with, but this kind of gatekeeping makes me sad. Policing who gets to call themselves what under which circumstances doesn’t spread enthusiasm for the sport or encourage more people to get out on the road. The cycling community is small enough as it is without artificially shrinking it.
Rule #71
Where as your 95% opinion is not in the rules. Therefore it is void 
On a more serious note, honestly, cagers are freaking nuts. And this comes from someone who DOES commute and braves traffic, sharing the road with cars by bicycle and motorbike as well. It doesn’t phase me at all as i don’t anger easily.
But i can easily see how people would get angry. And that just ruins the whole freaking ride, ruins the sport for a lot of people, especially when an accident happens, as the only one that will suffer any bodily injury is the cyclist.
If they don’t deem the risk necessary or worth it, and can still show up at races or events and smoke people, well does that make them less of a cyclist? If they’re enjoying themselves and get the results they were striving for, where’s the problem? Does an open water swimmer who mainly trains in a pool become less of a swimmer ? What about a rower who mainly trains on a rowing machine?
Pros ride inside and win grand tours. So whats the big deal? No one complains about that!!
I do wonder if your comment is actually serious or simply a troll attempt…
Anyway, I’ll take the bait…
I’ve been a cyclist for well over 40 years.
At the moment I’d say that 95% of my training is indoors. Everyone has their reasons for having a higher or lower percentage of training indoors vs outdoors. And there are many of them. Reasons, that is.
I’ve done the hard man thing (when I was practically able to) and ridden outdoors, all year round, daytime and night time, good weather and bad, touring, commuting, racing.
Now I find my circumstances (like those of many of us here, I guess) preclude the possibility of much outdoor training. The new trainer technology and apps like TrainerRoad are a Godsend.
The thing is, if one doesn’t know a person, one cannot really make judgements on them based on how they happen to conduct their training.
The thing I love about this forum community here is that it tends to be quite grown up, generally.