Its not for me...

[kirbdug]

Re: freaks

how many stores are now selling big bucks bikes, it seems, if you dont have a rig with price ticket of £2500+++++++ you aint cool..............

i have a full boingy thing of which cost me £2500 of which is still covered in mud with tyres going flat and hasnt been used since the early summer

i prefer to go retro, i like to have control and expore instead of a bike that weighs a ton and soaks up everything in its path

everyone has to be different or the world would be boring

so im happy to be a freak

 

[REKIBorter]

<stands up>My names Reki and I'm a freak<sits down>

 

[The Ken]

Well to be fair on them If I added up the full retail cost of my bike when I bought it back in 92 I still would be at £2.5K thank dog for january sales!

£2.5K now is probably like comparing it to a bike that cost us about 1K in the early 90's

 

[IDB1]

My most enjoyable off-road rides (remembering back to '93/'94) were hours in either Hainault or Epping Forest and a few at Hadleigh Castle, miles of up and downy stuff, plenty of fire track/single track.. with no suspension, 18 gears and canti's..

When (if? ) I ever get back to actually riding off-road again, it'll be much of the same except I'll have bouncy forks, V-brakes and 1 gear (and will inevitably involve less of the uppy stuff for quite some time )..

I quite like the idea of full-sus but it's not a burning desire or owt like that.. I really like the 19year old bike I have nearly finished..

I'll leave the decision as to whether I'm a freak or not to those that know me best

 

[Ycawsfach]

Downhill is a different world to real cycling, a bit like comparing 20-20 with real cricket. It's probably a generation thing, but it suits short attention spans and they have to get it out of their system before they grow up.

The same attitudes were around in the eighties when talking about what we now refer to as retro bikes.

Plus ca change.

 

[kaytronika]

So, err.... Anyone else just like bikes?

 

[red_riviera]

What's wrong with this picture?

Despite all the suspension and modern gadgets on the bike, someone still had to build the trail for the rider.

Anyone who just rides at trail centres is MISSING THE POINT. Mountain bikes should be a tool to help you get away from human's development of the countryside... not cause more of it!

Agree with everything LGF said.

 

[Andy R]

I suppose that I've turned my back on all the marketing stuff in that I'm not overly influenced by the latest trends and I don't buy any bike mags. now either.
I'm just an old guy who rides a steel framed, rigid singlespeed. A nice one, mind, (well I think so...) but still about as basic as it gets.
I think I've said before that I spend more money on riding gear (shoes, boots, shorts, jackets) than on bike bling.

 

[Neil]

What's wrong with this picture?

Despite all the suspension and modern gadgets on the bike, someone still had to build the trail for the rider.

Anyone who just rides at trail centres is MISSING THE POINT. Mountain bikes should be a tool to help you get away from human's development of the countryside... not cause more of it!

+1

 

[The Ken]

What's wrong with this picture?

Despite all the suspension and modern gadgets on the bike, someone still had to build the trail for the rider.

Anyone who just rides at trail centres is MISSING THE POINT. Mountain bikes should be a tool to help you get away from human's development of the countryside... not cause more of it!

+1

That and what appears to be a 12 year old riding harder stuff than I can do now.