Its not for me...
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'Now dats wot i'm tawkin about!!!!'
I have no choice but to ride the ups and the downs, but i wouldn't have it any other way
Hampshire, by the way, is too flat
'Now dats wot i'm tawkin about!!!!'
I have no choice but to ride the ups and the downs, but i wouldn't have it any other way
Hampshire, by the way, is too flat
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I like roaming rides but I also like trail centers and everything inbetween. depends on my mood and the conditions.
I'm faster and more comfortable on my '28lb Orange 5 monster' over virtually every surface. I like retrobikes but they're a 'sunday afternoon car that's kept in the garage' for me these days. My modern bikes are just more fun more of the time
I'm faster and more comfortable on my '28lb Orange 5 monster' over virtually every surface. I like retrobikes but they're a 'sunday afternoon car that's kept in the garage' for me these days. My modern bikes are just more fun more of the time
We_are_Stevo
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I stopped buying MBUK when all the language changed to stuff about berms, drop-offs, air and North Shore... :?
BiTD I was into XC; I could spend hours hooning around the woods' single track on my rigid steel bkes with ridiculously narrow bars to fit through the trees...
...now it's all about thrashing downhill through rock fields with super-wide bars for extra leverage on a bike with so much travel you need legs like a giraffe (or Jodie Kidd! ) just to get on the damn thing!
I'll stick to what I like
PS: if you've never met Jodie Kidd she's 6'2, and when I bumped into her she was wearing 4" stiletto-heeled boots! :shock:
She was also utterly charming when she refused my on-the-spot and decidedly tongue in cheek offer of marriage!
But I digress...
BiTD I was into XC; I could spend hours hooning around the woods' single track on my rigid steel bkes with ridiculously narrow bars to fit through the trees...
...now it's all about thrashing downhill through rock fields with super-wide bars for extra leverage on a bike with so much travel you need legs like a giraffe (or Jodie Kidd!
) just to get on the damn thing!I'll stick to what I like
PS: if you've never met Jodie Kidd she's 6'2, and when I bumped into her she was wearing 4" stiletto-heeled boots! :shock:
She was also utterly charming when she refused my on-the-spot and decidedly tongue in cheek offer of marriage!
But I digress...
We_are_Stevo":3ru3s8pq said:
haha, had someone rip the piss out of me in Palma about my bars being too narrow, can't remember exact length, and won't get her back until November to measure, but prob less than 40cm.
Had great fun in around 2000 going through a narrow gap over a bridge flat out, only for my mate on a modern bike try the same thing, only to get the bike stuck and him flying over the bars
Full sussers!?, I still haven't progressed onto disc or V brakes yet!, and have no interest in doing so either. I did have RS1s on my Funk BITD so I have tried front suspension for some time, 21 years ago mind!
I did have a brief go on a Specialized Big Hit last year which just seemed to do everything for me and I couldn't feel a thing. I was aware I could go faster up and down the bumps etc. but I sure didn't need many of my riding skills to do it, it just didn't feel alive, very numb. I do understand though if on the right trials, going flatout down hill, techniques are required to stay on the thing, skills I am sure I don't have so not taking that away from anyone who choses to ride those types of bikes.
Guess this makes me a Retro Freak too!
I did have a brief go on a Specialized Big Hit last year which just seemed to do everything for me and I couldn't feel a thing. I was aware I could go faster up and down the bumps etc. but I sure didn't need many of my riding skills to do it, it just didn't feel alive, very numb. I do understand though if on the right trials, going flatout down hill, techniques are required to stay on the thing, skills I am sure I don't have so not taking that away from anyone who choses to ride those types of bikes.
Guess this makes me a Retro Freak too!
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We_are_Stevo":3ts2bcxx said:I stopped buying MBUK when all the language changed to stuff about berms, drop-offs, air and North Shore... :?
BiTD I was into XC; I could spend hours hooning around the woods' single track on my rigid steel bkes with ridiculously narrow bars to fit through the trees...
...now it's all about thrashing downhill through rock fields with super-wide bars for extra leverage on a bike with so much travel you need legs like a giraffe (or Jodie Kidd!
MBUK has changed focus towards the 'gnarly' end of the market but there's other mags that cover the normal stuff. XC hooning is still allowed even if you have a modern bike and it's not all about rock gardens and north shore (both of which scare the parp out of me).
I don't really like MBUK now and don't often buy it but I do sometimes wonder if it's still aimed at the same age group it's just that we're not it any more. :cry:
I ride all the same routes on my modern bikes that I did on my 1990 Clockwork bitd. Still just as much fun and not that different tbh.
