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Sport as a mass leisure activity comes from the US anyway.
Yes, without them we'd never had taken up football, rugby, cricket etc.
Yes, without them we’d never had taken up football, rugby, cricket etc.
These were spectator sports with participants mostly young at amateur level. Not mass (sports) leisure activities IMHO.
Being sweaty wasn't particularly respectable outside of the sports-ground. It was working people who toiled and rode bikes.
Google Victorian bicycle race, I dare you
I'm not saying people didn't ride or race bikes. I'm saying there wasn't mass participation especially amongst middle classes.
It all started for me in 1979 with “Kickstart” on TV.
I had a Raleigh Jeep which I shortened the mudguards with a hacksaw, fit cowhorn bars, smaller seat, knobby tyres. I learned to bunny hop it over planks of wood, then started jumps etc. Built a small course in some wasteland. Nothing has changed in the last 39 years to be honest. I just go to Revolution and Leogang to hurt my these days.
These were spectator sports with participants mostly young at amateur level. Not mass (sports) leisure activities IMHO.
Football was, literally, a mass participation sport.
Thanks for kicking the sport as we know it Charlie. Had many great times in the outdoors with wonderful friends and built good friendships around the world because of mountain bikes. Both things I treasure.
How many 50 years old played football in 1930?
None is the answer.
Some excellent trolling on this thread. Well done sir!
Cycling was a mass participation activity way back in the victorian era. Same as many folk were riding modified bikes offroad well before repack and his pals codified downhhill racing. They did not invent mountainbiking.
Some of the posters are only very loosely connected to reality.
It's been done thoroughly previously on here TJ. They invented the word "mountainbiking".