Issue 148 Editorial: Every ride is like an individual snowflake

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What is it that sets our sport apart from most of the other sports/hobbies/lifestyles out there? After all, some people don’t even think that mountain biking is a sport anyway….

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  • Issue 148 Editorial: Every ride is like an individual snowflake
  • bigdaddy
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    Well said! Wholeheartedly agree with that! (He says, sporty some major bruises from an interface with a tree – they stay constant!). It’s one of the main features of our sport, that it’s different every time and rarely do you come back wishing you hadn’t bothered!

    matt_outandabout
    Full Member

    That thing is unpredictability

    An adventure: and enterprise of unknown outcome, often daring, unusual or risky.

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