OK, morality check… I’ve never usually got a problem giving away tubes to people in need, but sometimes, when it’s someone out on an expensive flash bike with all the kit, I do think “Nah, **** you, you’re an idiot, you’re not getting my tube” Is that wrong?
Yesterday I was stopped at the side of the track fixing a flat, a feller on a Glory came down with no pack or anything, pushing as he had a flat. “Have you got a spare”. You know what? I’d been carrying my kit all race while he was getting the benefit of riding light, no way was he getting any help off me. In the event, I only had 1 anyway so I didn’t have to make the call. Again, right or wrong?
Seriously, in the past, mountain biking was recognised as a discipline where you were supposed to be self sufficient – when they changed that, then you knew that we were doomed to a future of scalextric track trail centres.
South Park
“Who are “they”?”
“You know, “they”
“They’re bastards!”
The mysterious They who psionically implanted in everyone’s heads the idea that they didn’t need to be self-sufficient, are presumably the same They that ripped up all the natural/non-purpose-built trails and force everyone to only ride trail centres, aye?