I see wheels got bigger and im loving the bright colours people are now wearing, What else have I missed? I feel I may be doing it wrong when I get back out there lol.

Dunno.. We all ride road bikes now

Everyone is on rigid 3×8, bar ends and 26″

You pay more and get less gears.

There are no baby robins left. We all voted pro-Brexit and Donald Trump won his first DH chainless!!!!

Oh, and Tredz are still crap.

all your rides must be planned around beer. it is Law now.

It always was, wasn’t it, Ton?

Giant connect droppers are pants.

all your rides must be planned around beer. it is Law now.

Kerrekt.

Giant connect droppers are pants.

Giant connect droppers are cheap, serviceable and work well. I have one still in service after 5 years and 2/3 of my reverbs have been warrantied.

Also nobody agrees with each other anymore… 😆

Also nobody agrees with each other anymore…

Yes we do.

You missed the trails coming alive.

Oh that’s right Brexit. Does that mean bikey stuff will be even more pricey now?

Beer and bikes. Can you do one without the other?

Don’t make me ride on the road

Same here jellybaby, looks like you can now buy the bastardised bikes I was concocting off the shelf

Fifteen posts in and noone mentioned #enduro ?

Fifteen posts in and noone mentioned #enduro ?

What is understood doesn’t need to be discussed.

I bought my first proper MTB 4 years ago. It’s so out of date now, I might as well have bought a penny farthing. Good time to come back, hopefully standards will, y’know, standardise, for a while now.

No need to endure the pain of getting fit again, save yourself the bother and get an ebike 😉

The future is here…

Or more seriously
GT and Saracen now make good bikes again.
in other news Haterz still a hating

Dropper posts.
Tubeless ready tyres that just work
35mm bars.
Boost hub sizes
Fat bikes and variations of it.

3 years? You’re about 17 bottom bracket “standards” behind.

By the way we dont call them bikes anymore, they are known as gnarpoons!

There’s now about 50 tyre sizes to go along with the umpteen wheel sizes. Makes it amusing when no one can lend anyone else a tube mid ride when they’ve had a flat (these are however far from frequent as everyone except hippee Stu is tubeless).

TJ left and is back again, flashy gave up selling paperclips and now is a shoe model, bearnecessities has nearly finished his house, there were a few world class flounces, the Gif’s thread is good fun and piegate will never be settled.
There was also some bikes ridden.

The industry has been standardized.

…. for now.

Dropper posts? He said 3 years.

Our steeds now come in different colourways.

Manufacturers have radically changed their geometries – by putting? the ‘S’ sticker on last year’s medium frame, and the ‘M’ on the old large.

all your rides must be planned around beer. it is Law now.

And cake, don’t forget the cake

Beer n cake mmmmm….oh & pies

STRAVAAAA!!!

3 years ago was like:

Everyone in lycra, and our idea of a good ride was to go out and trash around a flat muddy field till we threw up.

Today, we are all like:

It’s all about the tricks n’ air-time bro. Even grannies on bikes pull back flips off the curb these days! Serious, you gota get with the program dude, we so stoked about it……..

After a long period single speeds are about to catch on.

Don’t make me ride on the road

So you’ve not ridden at all for 3 years, now out on parole?

Everything got fatter.

Frame tubes.
Handlebars.
Rims.
Tyres.
Riders.

Oh, mudguards.

Mudguards are cool now.

Oh, mudguards.

Mudguards are cool now.

You’ve taken it too far now

Not at all. Have a look at that Easter Rides thread.

Count the mudguards!

You might have a point!

26 and 29 were dead when you left according to the journos. Now 27.5 is dead and your 27.5 frames are going to be 26+ and 29ers are back, 27.5 is apparently going the way of 1.5 straight steerers like a few pariahs were saying.

This of course, could be total shit – 24 inchers might be in again by next week.