(X-Post with Ian)
The couple of knockers over on Cyclechat got shunted off into a split thread, but basically revolved around people saying that he must be making up for being a failure in other ways (family, job) to be taking it on, and the refusal to believe that this sort of milage can ever be done at all, by anyone including Tommy Godwin.
They are a tiny minority though and at least two of them I would normally count as trolls most of the time anyway. The vast majority are very supportive and they were shot down pretty robustly.
Though I suppose if you are looking at opinions, I score 'no' on both of CET's tests as well so make of that what you will.