[email protected] wrote:
>>Are you seriously saying that anything can be "right" or "cool" and that mountain biking can be
>>enjoyed without JD's or Greg's seal of approval? What, are you nuts? ;-)
>
>
> Now go my child, go to your fabulous two wheeled, non motorized riding machine. Make no mind of
> what some hypocrite in Colorado or California has to say. In their world, nothing is good.
You lie! My bike is PERFECT! And my trails are PERFECT! And my weather is PERFECT! And I'm PERFECT!
> In their mountainous world, the word has not gotten out that riding bicycles off road, with fat
> knobby tires, has grown outside of their minute litle world.
Oh, there are plenty of mountains around the world so it's not a minute little world.
> Outside of their world, there is a much larger world where people ride and enjoy bikes
> manufactured by the likes of Santa Cruz, Kona, Cannondale, Trek, Gary Fisher and so on. These
> people ride these bikes making not even a slightest thought of some 6' 7" mutant in Colorado.
Yes, they ride them without thought of some 6'7" freak, and most even ride them without succumbing
to magazine hype. That's something you should try some day.
> These bikes they ride aren't all equipped with a Surly rigid fork, and they are not all specially
> fabricated by Chet Peach, but they are bikes that take them away from the stresses of life and
> back to their childhood.
>
Blah blah blah.
> Now go, and your ride your bike. The hypocrites are outnumbered. Ride it if it's 45 pounds. Ride
> it if it's 21 pounds.
>
Yes, ride it like it's not some hyped up POS. If you can, that is.
Greg
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"Walking under ladders for a living You know we should be running round in pubs and bars We know
we'll never grow short And we'll never grow tall" - the Mekons