"spademan o---[)*" <
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> penny s wrote in message ...
> >Alastair Maxwell wrote:
> >> "JD" <
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> >>>
> >>> That aside, you may try and pedal your bike up a hill once in a while, but then again, with
> >>> all of that Darth Vader gear I can see why you may think it's a hassle. I'm sure there are
> >>> some Irish riders who can ride uphill out there somewhere.
> >>>
> >>> JD "I can't move because I'm encased in thermoplastic"
> >>
> >>
> >> We ride up hill but we use our road bikes and our xc bikes for that. This is a purely dh site
> >> so less of the u're loosers cause you can't ride up hill attitude from everyone.
> >
> >Those 50 pound bikes don't help.
> >
> > We choose not to its not cause
> >> we can't its cause we don't see any fun in it.
> >
> >Can't is right...those DH runs really keep you in shape for 9 mile, 5000' climbs.
> >
> > drink Dew, have a smoke, a shuttle with the CD turned up real load and a
2
> >minute DH run. Now that's fun.
> >
> >
> >penny
> >
>
> Oooh that was a bit harsh. I think what he's trying to say is that they enjoy riding uphill too,
> but choose not too when they are all geared up
for
> a proper DH day. It might suurprise you to know that people in the UK
don't
> really get all this Dewd stuff, we're not fed the marketing images that
you
> lot over the pond seem to go on about. Mainly we just like riding bikes, riding up mountains and
> down, and some days I might feel like just going
out
> with a few mates and hitting the DH run. You could pedal back uphill but then when you would talk
> **** about how your mates bike was a pile 'o **** and he was going so slow you would have passed
> him but you were already
half
> asleep...
>
> Steve E. <dammit I know its pointless but I like the feeling of brick against my head>
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Nice one steve exactly what i was getting at. What they don't know is that most of us from the site
there talking about have at least a 10 mile road spin on our dh bikes that is mainly uphill before
we even get to the bottom of the trails. Its a dh site we like riding dh so i can't see what
everyones problems is. I never said we where an xc club and went on xc spins and then you'd have a
right to say you loosers for not doing that climb. Some peoples attitudes to dh just suck. We all
ride our bikes for the same reason cause its fun. I don't see why people can't just get along
because of that. As far as the team goes we all have road bikes and go on road spins twice a week
where we do plenty of uphills in at least a 40 mile loop. Those of us who can afford to have an xc
bike have them and use them and have fun doing so. So why all the negativity cause of a pic of the
lads standing round having a chat about how the day or there bikes where going or giving abuse to
the **** head who was dying with a hangover for the day.
AL