
Doug, it's a reincarnation of a section called "readers bikes", which was part of the magazine MaximumMTB.
Of course the more unusual the bike, or the more intricate the stories behind it, the more interesting the article.
But at the end of the day we're only here posting on BIKEmagic because we're all confirmed bike geeks.
If you don't like it, you don't have to read it.