I’m not sure why it’s getting under my skin today, but there’s a lot of people on here and in the “mountain biking community” as a whole hell-bent on some anti-fashion as a fashion lead lifestyle.
Rider buy a Audi ‘lifestyle’ estate – for £5k, £10k hell even buys a newish one for £20k and he’s a prick, another MAMIL, a Trail Yuppie or whatever else.
Rider buys a VW Van – made by the same people, costs multiples of what a similar aged car would cost – but it’s okay – he’s keeping it real even if it’s 5 times as big as he/she needs.
Rider saves up a small bundle of cash to buy a bike, agonises over every detail, reads every review and puts their money down on – whatever is the green eyed monster’s latest hate figure – certainly the Bronson at the moment – again total ****, sheep, all-the-gear. whathave you – unless he dared borrow the money to buy it – you can double the insult then.
Whilst another rider might drop a small fortune on some useless niche filling flash-in-the-pan thing like a Fatbike that they’ll ride about 3 times before being thrown in N+1 pile in the shed forever – but that’s okay.
Ride trail centres? **** – in fact, if you fail to tell everyone at the top of your voice whenever the subject is mentioned you’d never been to one and wouldn’t be seen dead riding one – ****.
Buy colourful clothing for riding – ****.
The list goes on and on – IMO the single mistake all these off-road hipsters are making is they think they’re in some way ‘cool’ there is NOTHING cool about Mountain Biking, honestly to the wider world it’s one up from Train Spotting, when I first started riding it was the least cool pastime in the world.
(sorry, I think it’s the pills talking)