Was this REALLY in the Observer this weekend?

slainte ❓ rob

More sense than a lot of the shite that gets spouted out on here

Dunno what your problem is. I totally ate some greens whilst roosting some hammerheads who were roid-buffing their boing boings on some gonzo halftrack full of babyheads and mantraps at the Dyfi yesterday…..

oh dear.

Lol

sikk

The Observer takes one more step towards going out of business.

WTF was that loblocks?

Can’t believe they missed “gnarl to the power of rad”.
Though i suspect if you stand in a trail centre car park on a weekend you’ll hear worse 🙄

i am crying

Is that not the entire content of an MBUK issue without the pictures?

I read it in the manner I believe it was intended, tongue firmly in cheek.

Will a brain bucket stop all those Mtb head injuries ?

You do wonder if the journo spoke to his nephew who wondered how much crap he’d swallow…

Pretty inspirational actually. Makes me want to grind some gonzo death cookies on my boing-boing. Or should i be posting this in a different, more “specialist” forum…!? 😯

Trolling newspaper article?

/facepalm

is it wrong that i’ve been riding for nearly 20 years in one form or another and i recognised maybe 2 of those phrases the best were a collection of rollocks (not the boat variety)

Still should make it easier to recognise a guardian reader

Well I’m learning at least.

Its official, they should change the mag name to Halftrack.

Maybe its Southern dielect??? 😀

Rorschach – Member
Dunno what your problem is. I totally ate some greens whilst roosting some hammerheads who were roid-buffing their boing boings on some gonzo halftrack full of babyheads and mantraps at the Dyfi yesterday…..

Lol!! Right that is now how I am always going to speak from now on.

Presumably some journo had a few inches to fill and asked a mate (who cycles) for some of the lingo. Said mate then took the pish.

Barneys the lot of ya!

Seems Fred is back…

It’s a good job I’m a hoopy frood who really knows where his towel is…

Very Nathan Barley 8)

Corker, cheers Colournoise.
Its Ride Guide Mountain, minus the Canadian accents! They missed “super-stoked”, and rigids were “back in the day”.

Never mind “low hanging branches”, the journo went for low hanging fruit (now that’s real management speak).

I remember halftrack though, that was what the Africa Korps used against the 8th Army, but they seemed to catch fire a lot in the films.

Corker, cheers Colournoise.
Its Ride Guide Mountain, minus the Canadian accents! They missed “super-stoked”, and rigids were “back in the day”.

Never mind “low hanging branches”, the journo went for low hanging fruit (now that’s real management speak).

I remember halftrack though, that was what the Africa Korps used against the 8th Army, but they seemed to catch fire a lot in the films.

Someone please do a mock up cover for ‘Halftrack’ magazine!!!

slainte ❗ rob

Proper Lmfao 😆 ……Brilliant!

Awesome

42 minutes!!

We’re not worthy!!

But cfh – I’ve seen you gnarling to the half power of radd at cyb…

Looking past all the mountain biking vocab that nobody’s ever heard of whats the dig against riding up the hills about?

Even experienced mountain bikers push up hils. Or the really experienced ones have rides like a gordian knot where it’s downhill all the time, even to the top of the hill.

I read it in the manner I believe it was intended, tongue firmly in cheek.

+1

Well gonzo Rob 😆

I’ve been doing it wrong all these years 😥 I am sooooooo uncool

(sadly I can’t find contact details for Dave Hall of the Observer/Guardian, I was hoping to tweet him some choice words of my own)

I had to translate for my mum at my first race (in maybe 1995), as the guy stood next to us told his friends how he’d “nailed a sick drop but totally stacked on the switchback when both rubbers washed out”. I thought he sounded like a ****t then.

That was a painful read!

there’s an ‘l’ at the end of Gnar? I’ve been saying it all wrong for so many years and no-one corrected me… the shame.

The rest reads like lingo from the 90s…

jclay – http://twitter.com/daveha11

Hard to find. I googled “dave hall guardian twitter” and it was right there 😀