No. 2:
Fasting and or caloric restriction is dumb and only hurts performance in the long run. If you need to or feel the need to restrict your eating the ONLY reason is because you’re eating the wrong things.
Corollary: You’re eating too much meat and not enough vegetables.
Corollary 2: There are no circumstances under which restricting your eating will cause you to “burn fat” or lose fat at a faster rate than exercising while properly fueled.
Everyone is a fred of some variety. 
Mass start cycling races being chess on wheels is a bad analogy. Poker on wheels would be a much better analogy.
There’s usually more than two people. Noone has the same cards (fitness/skills/teammates) or all of the information. Bluffing can be involved. There’s an element of luck that chess just doesn’t have.
If you jump on my wheel unannounced and without asking; don’t expect me to point out hazards to you, that’s your look out.
You don’t need to wear a helmet or wear special clothes to ride a bike (to be fair it only tends to be unpopular online).
As someone who is almost always doing a workout…Zwift would be better if there were more long, flat routes…and I say that after spending years wishing they would build more climbs.
Sunglasses aren’t needed on the bike. I get the whole “eye protection” aspect, but my glasses either fog up and get covered in sweat, and get put up on my helmet within 10 minutes of every ride and stay there until I am done.
It’s more like roulette, there’s heaps of people that lose.
Roadies are the conservative uncle of the cycling family. They are about 10–15 years late to every trend and only reluctantly adopt new tech: moving away from ridiculous gearing, disc brakes, wider tires, 1x.
Mic drop. You win, sir!
Rim brakes have died purely to force me into a more expensive braking system
Climbing isn’t any harder than flats, it’s just slower.
Follow Up Hot Take:
Mountain Bikers practice skills because they are slow cyclists 
Based purely on a single individual anecdotal experience. I don’t own a mountain bike…I’ve never been mountain biking…except a single time…I borrowed a bike and jumped in the Jerdon Mountain Challenge in North Carolina with zero experience.
Passed most people going uphill, those same people blew by me downhill. Overall…finished better than I normally would in a cyclocross or crit race.
Spot on.
That has been my experience as well. E. g. I have heard all sorts of ridiculous discussions about whether you wait for your riding buddies at the top of hills or what socks to wear. I have ridden mountain bikes for decades and you of course wait for the friends and people you ride with. You chill until everybody catches up.
Case in point: at my last offroad ride with others, someone brought a coffee maker, coffee grinder and coffee for everyone. It took up tons of space, but it was great since we were riding in snow.
Roadies seem much more closed, they often get uncomfortable when someone is much faster or much slower than they are. E. g. I’m usually one of the quickest, but I don’t mind going downhill and “pull” someone uphill if need be.
Riding indoors is more fun than riding outdoors.
Gonna wave AND yell out how much I like the color of your jersey/bike/whatever 
Cyclists dont care about the details.
Disc brakes work much better and e. g. allow for wider tires. Without disc brakes you wouldn’t have do-it-all and gravel bikes like the Open UP, Cervelo Aspero, 3T Exploro, … Arguably, this is the hottest trend for drop bar bikes. IMHO in a few years most bikes will be do-it-all or gravel bikes.
Initially the UCI was afraid they wouldn’t work well enough or would lead to tons of injuries even though they had been standard on mountain bikes for >1.5 decades.
I bought a rim brake, 52/36 FD roadie in the fall. Don’t @ me
We need to invent a variation of Goodwin’s law where every cycling forum thread invariably leads to a disc brake debate. Godwin's law - Wikipedia
This I get. Totally understand
What I don’t get dropping rim brake options completely as all main manufacturers are doing now.
Grr