Its not for me...
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Agency_Scum
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Nothing tickles me as much as leading a club ride on the sh1ttest, oldest bike there with a pair of LGF SPECIALS from Hong Kong clamped to the front to light the way.
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Ok, 3 pages - must have hit a nerve.
But, like I say, I do like a full suss and I have been running Hope disc brakes on and off since 1996.
But yes, there is the secret sadist that likes rattling past something new and overkill on whilst riding something that can order a beer in the US without the need for ID.
But, like I say, I do like a full suss and I have been running Hope disc brakes on and off since 1996.
But yes, there is the secret sadist that likes rattling past something new and overkill on whilst riding something that can order a beer in the US without the need for ID.
utahdog2003
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Dirt Rag has a test of some $6000 Trek in the recent issue, and all I noticed was that the SRAM X0 bits are available in anodized blue.
Defender
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Well, I guess we all have preferences where and what we ride, along with types, makes, models and years of bike!
For most of us our first form of personal transport is a bicycle, on this forum it's something that has stayed with us through our lives, or that we have returned to, for fitness/recreation or even transport again?
From there our interest may well take different paths like so many things in life.
Many of the 'don't get it's' I don't really get in a big way either, but they're different and sometimes even interesting?
But underneath it all, I think that the main point is that we ride :idea:.
'Vive la difference!'
For most of us our first form of personal transport is a bicycle, on this forum it's something that has stayed with us through our lives, or that we have returned to, for fitness/recreation or even transport again?
From there our interest may well take different paths like so many things in life.
Many of the 'don't get it's' I don't really get in a big way either, but they're different and sometimes even interesting?
But underneath it all, I think that the main point is that we ride :idea:.
'Vive la difference!'
marc two tone
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its not for me
good points of view.
mountain biking does seem to have got hard and fast. xc means xc to me. getting from a-b at my own pace rather than belting along just for the sake of it. if that is the 'modern' way then its not for me either.
i do like external bb's though....crickey, the amount of un50 jobbies ive wrestled out of steel shells! :roll:
good points of view.
mountain biking does seem to have got hard and fast. xc means xc to me. getting from a-b at my own pace rather than belting along just for the sake of it. if that is the 'modern' way then its not for me either.
i do like external bb's though....crickey, the amount of un50 jobbies ive wrestled out of steel shells! :roll:
Defender
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Re: its not for me
Thank you, I wasn't quite sure if my ramblings were going to make sense to anybody else?
I think like most hobbies/sports everything has become much more focused on specific area's, eg. Downhill, All Mountain, Enduro etc. in the case of MTBing.
So who can/do we blame? or is it just the natural evolutionary process be applied?
The marketing men will always be looking for a new avenue to explore and exploit, but we don't have to buy the products they are telling us we need?
No real answers, but I'm not sure there are any difinitive ones it means different things to each of us :?:.
marc two tone":2xx22jzr said:mountain biking does seem to have got hard and fast. xc means xc to me. getting from a-b at my own pace rather than belting along just for the sake of it. if that is the 'modern' way then its not for me either.
i do like external bb's though....crickey, the amount of un50 jobbies ive wrestled out of steel shells! :roll:
Thank you, I wasn't quite sure if my ramblings were going to make sense to anybody else?
I think like most hobbies/sports everything has become much more focused on specific area's, eg. Downhill, All Mountain, Enduro etc. in the case of MTBing.
So who can/do we blame? or is it just the natural evolutionary process be applied?
The marketing men will always be looking for a new avenue to explore and exploit, but we don't have to buy the products they are telling us we need?
No real answers, but I'm not sure there are any difinitive ones it means different things to each of us :?:.
I've not been to a trail centre yet, but have just spent 5.5k on a new bouncy bike to impress the other tourists with...
It's not hilly, or full of wooded singletrack, or particularly exciting anywhere within 20 miles of where I live, but I ride what I have to hand. I ride to escape my car and relax, another 3 hours in the car to do that somewhere else somewhat defeats the point!
When I ride from home, it is either on the road, or will almost certainly involve a muddy ride around the edge of an arable field somewhere.
Those bits are just as good to me as a trip to the peaks, because whilst I don't get the exciting descents and cracking landscape views, I rarely see another soul and I get to see much more wildlife.
My bike was good enough to do that 15 years ago, funnily enough it's good enough to do it now!
I like riding bikes, the new one is just so my wife can enjoy it that bit more with me too.
It's not hilly, or full of wooded singletrack, or particularly exciting anywhere within 20 miles of where I live, but I ride what I have to hand. I ride to escape my car and relax, another 3 hours in the car to do that somewhere else somewhat defeats the point!
When I ride from home, it is either on the road, or will almost certainly involve a muddy ride around the edge of an arable field somewhere.
Those bits are just as good to me as a trip to the peaks, because whilst I don't get the exciting descents and cracking landscape views, I rarely see another soul and I get to see much more wildlife.
My bike was good enough to do that 15 years ago, funnily enough it's good enough to do it now!
I like riding bikes, the new one is just so my wife can enjoy it that bit more with me too.
highlandsflyer
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Great post.
I began riding off road to get to places I would otherwise walk, I see little appeal in testing myself against a fixed route. Off road biking has always been about wandering for me.
It is all about the open space, the tranquility, being the first to crack the ice in the puddles at this time of year.
I would point out that prepared routes are often the only way of protecting the environment, so they do have a purpose.
I began riding off road to get to places I would otherwise walk, I see little appeal in testing myself against a fixed route. Off road biking has always been about wandering for me.
It is all about the open space, the tranquility, being the first to crack the ice in the puddles at this time of year.
I would point out that prepared routes are often the only way of protecting the environment, so they do have a purpose.
