I'm gonna come in here and defend Echoes to be honest. I think his heart was in the right place, but his ways of putting his point across could grate. This being an Anglophone forum, a lot of focus on cycling outside of its traditional heartlands (and indeed in some of its traditional heartlands, Spain most obviously) tends to be weighted very heavily towards stage racing and particularly towards climbers, and the legends of the classics tend to be forgotten to a much greater extent. The bizarre fixation with Anglicising the names of every race ("Walloon Arrow" was another Echoes special) was just an affectation I believe (although I don't remember the "Tour of France", I'm sure he only ever called it the "Bore de France"?). He wasn't a troll like Pisti, he was simply very passionate about the Classics (and very much had one foot in the past, seemingly wishing to return to a calendar and a style of cycling from the 70s), and seemed to take it personally if others were not as passionate about them as he was.
Like, if Ryo didn't have that whole side where he'd start mocking or belittling women or insulting people's mental faculties, and was just restricted to the side of him that was smug and obsessive about Latin American cycling, where he would actually be a pretty useful and interesting source once you knew what to take with a pinch of salt, then he'd not be that dissimilar. Only for Echoes, that side of him was obsessive about the Northern Classics, Six Days, kermesses and Belgian amateur races back in the day, rather than up-and-coming Colombians and Venezuelans. I understand he butted heads with a few in the politics and religion threads, but I tended not to frequent those hotbeds of arguments. and only dealt with him on the subjects of cycling and music.