What would you tell your younger self about bikes?
I'd say embrace the bouncy bikes sooner, no need to be a luddite so long!
To lay off the pot & get your arse out on your bike!
Step away form the road, lycra, women and beer and hit the trails..
I'd of met more nurses sooner and no doubt of be even more of a spaz than i am now.
Don't sell the klein!
Don't buy the stumpy comp...
Buy the Rock Lobster in a 19in not 17in...
Motorola "stars and stripes" team issue lycra one-pieces looked stupid even in the early 90s...
If you can't ride 20m of 4in wide northshore when it's 6in off the ground you won't be able to do it when it's 1m off the ground...
I'd tell myself the great news that in 23 years you'll still be doing it and it will be just as good as it ever was. I'd also have to break the bad news that I wasn't going to get any better at it in that time.
To lay off the pot & get your arse out on your bike!
Amen, brother!
That going on a bike forum is a waste of valuable riding time.
I'd go back to aire valley cycles and say dont buy that zaskar buy the rts back in '92 lol oh and lottery numbers are ......
I'd tell myself not to take a valuable bike to Stif for servicing, but to learn how to do it myself. Less likely to result in a knackered bike.
Also, I'd get accredited on the track sooner.
I'd invent the mountain bike. When I was a lad they didn't exist ... nor did BMXs (over here at least) for that matter.
Sod the bikes, shag more women
1977: don't swap your bicycle for that poxy vespa
Tell myself to stop wasting my time setting up the perfect V-Brakes and just RIDE!
Dont buy a SH frame and try and build up a nice bike. Dont tot up how much you have actually spent and realise you could have twice the bike for the money ready made
Dont be sad when you sell 6 months later for a 1/4 of that you spent.
Do buy the Meta though; its ace 🙂
+ another one for laying off the pot ect...
Also I would tell myself that a bike is more than a tool for going to work on.
And don't get taken in by bike mags.
Lay off the pies.
And finnish college instead of goin down the pub.
Ride more and stop chasing the women *
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* 'cos you never caught that many and will have more fun on the bike ....
I'd say 'stop chasing women and drink and start training like crazy because when you're over 40 and have realised you've missed the boat despite being fitter than you ever have been before, it'll be too late'
buy a shed load of white porcs and store them carefully,
president butter!!
Stop wasting time with useless full sussers, you'll hate them all, get a nice hardtail, and ride it
Just noticed butter has nothing to do with bikes...still, you would though.
Oh and don't but ivory bottle cages.
surely the only way to get a DeLorean up to 88mph is to drive it over a cliff ?
I'd say, "don't spend 2.5k of your hard earned on a Whyte Preston"
"Put off going to uni for a year or two and go ride round europe/asia/NZ/south america"
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"stop being a slack student and go riding and climbing in all this spare time you have, in the future you will realise how precious it is"
Stop popping to the pub in the vain hope of pulling.
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Don't exchange the '95 Cinder Cone for a Pahoehoe under warranty - replace the snapped drop out and single speed it.
Oh yeah, and get back into mountain biking before living in Vancouver for 6 months aged 18 and not doing any 🙁
i'd campaign for the words pinned, stoked, rig, etc to be banned before the "yoof of freeride" could get hold of them
don't sell your explosif
buy a dekerf elysium with disc mounts WHEN YOU GET ONE OFFERED TO YOU FOR SILLY MONEY you prat 😥
To lay off the pot & get your arse out on your bike!
+ another ... although I managed to do both, maybe it's because I didn't inhale 😉
But I'd tell myself: don't stick to that dead end job, put the rack on the bike, get ya gear packed and go to Mongolia/Tibet/South America/Cambodia/etc before it all changes.
1) To stop being sniffy about "DHers" and try stuff like riser bars, big tyres etc a lot earlier. If I'd learnt the skills I have now 5 or 6 years earlier, I'd be a MUCH better rider now.
2)That there *are* hills south of London, and not to waste all that time driving up to the Peaks every weekend.
3)To go and be an MTB guide before I get caught up in the whole mortage/home owning thing.
ide go back to when i was 2 or 3, with a whole heap of modern trials bikes, so when i grew out of one, the next was lined up and ready.
i wish i was a street urchin 🙁
Put all your savings into XT Sharkfins.
Don't land on your front teeth. 😳
Stock up on XT Thumbies.
Ride your bike a whole lot more - specifically between 0ctober 1997 and March 1998. It will keep you out of trouble.