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    Simon
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    I could be wrong but wasnt mountain biking invented by customising cruisers and racing downhill?

    If it was then surely downhilling is mountain bikings true roots..... no?

    Simon

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  2. Westridge
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    "Simon" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
    "]news:[email hidden]...

    Quoted message said:

    I could be wrong but wasnt mountain biking invented by customising


    cruisers

    Quoted message said:

    and racing downhill?

    If it was then surely downhilling is mountain bikings true roots..... no?

    Simon

    Nah. I was zooming up and down hills and sheep tracks and jumping my sister's Raleigh 20 over
    streams when I was 11 years old back in the 70's. The cruiser couldn't take it. Then again, the
    Raleigh 20, remaining concious, and most of my front teeth couldn't take it either...

    Surely that means that _I_ invented mountain biking.

    Ha ha! Kneel yee all; and give thanks unto me!

    Westie - won't let it go to my head...-

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  3. Supabonbon
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    "Simon" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
    news:<[email hidden]>...

    Quoted message said:

    I could be wrong but wasnt mountain biking invented by customising cruisers and racing downhill?

    If it was then surely downhilling is mountain bikings true roots..... no?

    Simon

    Don't be an [censored]. Gary Fisher et al didn't have [censored] to do with "creating" the mountain bike. They
    just "created" it as a specific marketable commodity. You don't think people have been riding bikes
    through woods for over 100 years? /s

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  4. Simon
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    <snip>
    | Surely that means that _I_ invented mountain biking.
    |
    | Ha ha! Kneel yee all; and give thanks unto me!
    |
    | Westie - won't let it go to my head...-

    "we're not worthy, we're not worthy"

    :o)

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  5. Martees
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    "Westridge" <[email hidden]> wrote in message "]news:[email hidden]...

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    "Simon" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
    "]news:[email hidden]...

    Quoted message said:

    I could be wrong but wasnt mountain biking invented by customising


    cruisers

    Quoted message said:

    and racing downhill?

    If it was then surely downhilling is mountain bikings true roots.....


    no?

    Quoted message said:
    Quoted message said:


    Simon

    Nah. I was zooming up and down hills and sheep tracks and jumping my sister's Raleigh 20 over
    streams when I was 11 years old back in the 70's. The cruiser couldn't take it. Then again, the
    Raleigh 20, remaining concious, and most of my front teeth couldn't take it either...

    Surely that means that _I_ invented mountain biking.

    Ha ha! Kneel yee all; and give thanks unto me!

    Westie - won't let it go to my head...-

    Nah, I'm pretty sure my brothers and I invented it in the 70's with our Stingrays and banana seats.
    We'd cut trails around our house and race through the woods. We had jumps and and ramps. What a
    blast. I remember once, my brother went off a homemade jump and hit a tree. His handle bar went
    right into his stomach. Of course we had no grips so there was a nice chunk of meat in the bar end.

    Nasty but we laugh about it now.

    So there. We invented it...... 😉

    Marty

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  6. Jd
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    [email hidden] (supabonbon) wrote in message
    news:<[email hidden]>...

    Quoted message said:

    "Simon" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
    news:<[email hidden]>...

    Quoted message said:

    I could be wrong but wasnt mountain biking invented by customising cruisers and racing downhill?

    If it was then surely downhilling is mountain bikings true roots..... no?

    Simon

    Don't be an [censored]. Gary Fisher et al didn't have [censored] to do with "creating" the mountain bike. They
    just "created" it as a specific marketable commodity. You don't think people have been riding
    bikes through woods for over 100 years? /s

    Amen!

    JD

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