Your not wrong mate.
Over priced, over rated yes.
But full of posers no,
When I'm off I spend probably a minimum of 2 afternoons a week chatting shit there with others.
I would say the posers I chat shit with have a 100k average mileage on their bikes.
one fireblade has 165k on it and he has 3 bikes.
What the west end has is location and that you cannot beat,
Also there's a shop over the road