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It's a form of modesty which is common in the English language

>I'm not a gardener, i'm just growing a few herbs
>I'm not really a cook, but i hope this tastes good
>I'm not a weaver, but i made this

>cy·clist
>a person who rides a bicycle.
Except practically everyone in the world has ridden a bicycle before, so technically that would make practically everyone a cyclist and render the word meaningless.
There's a judgement that has to be placed on how regularly or how seriously someone does X to have the identity of Y.

I think we're probably just complaining about the fantasy subset of unracer who takes not being serious incredibly seriously, those people are cyclists, and i think you'd be hard pressed to actually find one who doesn't identify as such.

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