[Closed] Trail Centre Vehicle Trends Part 2

Really very amusing thread but clear some of the contributors need notes:

- Arcteryx (or simply just ‘Arc’ to the genuine faithful) is as ‘new’ as Pat (agonia) is. I.e. not very.
- One can not be over-biked. It’s just not possible. Why would they sell them to us if we didn’t need them?
- My A6 Avant Quattro is the perfect car for all occasions except when it isn’t.
- Cali’s (Oceans/DSG natch - you plebs) rock and anyone that says otherwise is a commie.
- Literally everyone works in IT innit.

I actually submitted day vans (taking up two spaces) to Singletrack 101 in feb but heard nothing ?:

‘Day vans that take up two spaces. Yep, brilliant, you searched your soul for creativity and bought a T4/T5 and painted it in the Gulf racing, Mystery Machine, Monster Energy Drink etc colours and then stickered the rear with skate brands. What a ****ing trailblazer. Then you get there early and set up some little camp in the space next to you so some of us have to park half a mile up the fireroad. My contempt for your selfish actions knows no bounds.’

Cool, I have never been so stereotyped before....

Yes I work in IT.

Yes I drive a white t5

Yes I ride a FS (but only 140mm travel)

Yes I ride almost exclusively at trail centers

Yes, I stay at campsites for the weekend while indulging in my hobby.

Edit as realised it's not OP's Volvo - please tell me the Volvo has a T5 engine, would just fit this thread beautifully! If I was looking at a T5 it would be Volvo related for me and not VW.

Have very much let my self down on the van front, 05 plate rusty Transit crew cab - shame as I've got the 160mm FS and an E-Bike kicking around! None of that expensive clothing stuff though...

Very much enjoying this thread 🙂

Reeled lots in op 😆

Chapeau

God there are some pricks on here.

...surely we're missing some 'craft ale' / Brewdog references?

Of course, aside from the typical middle class yuppies, the working classes have now also bought into lifestyle. 

You can spot this crew a mile off: middle aged yet they still wear skate shoes/baggy jeans/fox racing hooded tops. The van is also "done up" with a similar (lack of) taste: big alloy wheels, body kits, lowering springs etc. Basically anything possible to make it look like a child's toy, which suits the mental age of the owner perfectly.

And obviously once you've spent tens of thousands of pounds on a van, you have to take yourself very seriously. 

I got this.

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I dont see many biting, more indifference and bemusement.

Fishing trip not going too well DT?

I'll have a nibble.

I'm 46, have a pick-up, 160mm bike, wear a bit of Fox, jeans, trainers sometimes. We camped after BPW a few weeks ago.

I also have friends and we have a right laugh. How are you doing on that front?

Oh and act my age? Sod that 🙂

the working classes have now also bought into lifestyle.

Isn't this just the continuing proliferation of PCPs etc? - now available on high end luxury items like VW 'Trannies'!

For the record - I'm not knocking it ... it makes perfect sense after all, who wants to pay upwards of £30k for something when you can 'rent' it for a couple of hundred a month for a few years!

Annoying the 'Brand Conscious' middle classes is just an added bonus!

So yeah - not only can us Proles now fly away on holiday rather than just going to Margate or Blackpool for the week, but we can also have access to luxury leisure items like camper vans in which to drink cans of Stella and suck on a vape whilst wearing a 'Sports Vest' ... 😉

Arcteryx (or simply just ‘Arc’ to the genuine faithful)

No ... no it isn't - I've never heard Arcteryx refered to as 'Arc' not even in British Columbia ... and I've been rockin' the Arc'teryx for years! 8)

Johnny IT in his lifestyle Van, and clearly brimming with [s]Envy[/s] [b]Enve carbon rims[/b]...

Fixed that for you! 😉

cookeaa has it spot on.

I didn't realise that there was a class war in trail centre biking. Fabulous!

Could someone please tell me which army I'm meant to dislike?

As a contractor who has to drive a van, can I now pretend I’m in IT?

Maybe I should be hated as I travel about the country with a nice Van I didn’t buy or choose with a bike always inside for a potential sneaky bit of riding while others are working.

I'm clearly not on trend. Despite owning two relatively nice FS bikes, I let myself down by hanging them from a boot rack mounted on a ten year old Alfa Romeo saloon.

Do you have the correct sunglasses to go with it though?

...surely we're missing some 'craft ale' / Brewdog references?

T5 owners would probably drink Brewdog, or Fosters, maybe Stella if they want to appear posh, or Stella Cidre if they prefer.

Could someone please tell me which army I'm meant to dislike?

In modern Britain, with contemporary divisive rhetoric in the media etc , I think you are actively encouraged to dislike everyone aren't you? Including most of the members of your own family!

It's not like the '70s & '80s when you knew who to hate because of the music they listened to i.e. mods, rockers, skins, goths, rude boys, casuals etc ...

Like Marilyn said:

"There's no time to discriminate
Hate every ***********
That's in your way"

As a contractor who has to drive a van, can I now pretend I’m in IT?

BTW, my laptop has been playing up and running slow. I know that you're about to go on a bike ride, but could you take a quick look at it for me? It should only take you an hour or so. Obviously, I won't be paying you for your time because, well, you're in IT and do this sort of stuff every day, but once you've helped me once, you've agreed to an implicit contract to provide me with support for my laptop for the next 10 years.

Oh, and I will also take the piss out of your nice car because you work in IT. And your bike too.

driving an old Volvo makes you a better person than someone who drives a T5?

🙄

Well I get comfier seats so it’s probably evens. Not my main car though, that’ll be kept a secret. 😆 I’m just as sensitive as the T5 guys towards lighthearted banter about my lifestyle choices. 😉 😆

driving an old Volvo makes you a better person than someone who drives a T5?

Edit as realised it's not OP's Volvo - please tell me the Volvo has a T5 engine,

It is mine!!

Better than a T5 engine, it has a good old fashioned strong as an ox turbo redblock in it. Fitted the right way round and driving the correct set of wheels too. 😉

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Oh, and I will also take the piss out of your nice car because you work in IT. And your bike too

I observed this at Llandegla a few weeks ago. It was like a pack of dogs sniffin' each others bottoms everytime a new vehicle (especially T4 or T5) pulled up in the car park.

Maybe it's something Darwinian or a 'Peacock Display' 😉

I see the OP is keen to show off how cool and alternative he is compared to all the sheep in their T5s.

I don't understand what I'm supposed to think about a bunch of photos of practical, but uninteresting vehicles, but I can't muster any real response.

I want that Volvo, even if it does look like a herse

PS - I have never been to a trail centre but I do have a very old rusty transit.

Look Digby (if that is your real name?) all the cool, and in fact marginally cool, kids called it Arc whilst laughing behind the backs of the ‘losers’ (usually with nasal voices) wasting their lives on the extra two syllables.

End of, fact etc.

At least you found out in the end…

😉

Sure.
BTW, my laptop has been playing up and running slow. I know that you're about to go on a bike ride, but could you take a quick look at it for me? It should only take you an hour or so. Obviously, I won't be paying you for your time because, well, you're in IT and do this sort of stuff every day, but once you've helped me once, you've agreed to an implicit contract to provide me with support for my laptop for the next 10 years.

It’s the same with any useful skill, or just having a van. People think I’d love to help them work on their house or move big things on my day off.

I see the OP is keen to show off how cool and alternative he is compared to all the sheep in their T5s.

I wasn’t, someone else brought it up to be fair. I was offering free styling advice - otherwise how are people to know how to make a style impact at their local trail centre?

I've never heard Arcteryx refered to as 'Arc' not even in British Columbia

Perhaps the people who call it Arc can't pronounce Arcteryx. I no I can't and it is why I keep leaving the shop with Patagonia.

Edit:

And, why do people think IT managers are paid well? The people I know who make a descent living sell things like ships and shares, or other currencies.

And, nice Volvo. I'm a confirmed Volvo disliker, I can't shake the image of the 340 when people mention Volvo, but that car looks good to my eye.

I see the OP is keen to show off how cool and alternative

You mean poor and slightly dull right? A volvo FFS? I don't care how fast it is, who the xxxx drives a volvo..? Could have at least owned a Saab...

I now understand why he has so much time on his hands to stand about in carparks taking photos of stranger's cars.....

I want that Volvo, because it does look like a hearse

@Somafunk, tell your old man to look at a Custom Sport then - cheaper, better spec, 2 seats up front, plus doesn't look utterly tragic 🙂

Weird stw thread here. I like the VW vans posted by the OP - they look great (but not for me - too slow 🙁 ) and I also like the Volvo estate - proper old skool estate. As ever so many stereotypes posted here..

So if you liked the a team get a t5
Fall guy L200
Dukes of hazard..............

Judging by recent STW threads I hereby predict the next trend will be taking your FS'er to trail centres in the box of your cargo bike.

So if you liked the a team get a t5
Fall guy L200.....

Van? Volvo?
*want*
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^^Getting your'e Orange five out of the back of that baby is going to turn a few heads in the carpark.

The amount of people desperately trying to guise their hurt egos with faux nonchalance and shit attempts to put the op down in this thread is delicious.

You mean poor and slightly dull right?

Not poor but I am a bit dull. But not as dull as the posters on here who [i]clearly don’t get the joke[/i]

Dukes of hazard..............

Do you already know what my other car is?

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😉

Not poor but I am a bit dull. But not as dull as the posters on here who clearly don’t get the joke

Odd thread. Since you started it, could you explain what the joke is?

The joke is f@#£$&ts arguing about cars.

The joke is f@#£$&ts arguing about cars.

Okay :?. Doesn't seem that funny.

Maybe you had to be there at the start. 😐

@zilog6128 - cheers for that heads up - i like it!, forwarded it on to my dad

Maybe you had to be there at the start.

Maybe :-). Not knowing the personalities involved, or the background beyond these 4 pages, I have to say I'm not entirely convinced that the OP isn't being the 'bitter, jealous, underachieving, sneering, inverse-snob etc etc', he is being accused of, but just hiding it behind 'a joke'. Whole thing just seems a bit mean-spirited from the start. Don't really see much evidence of humour or entertainment here, but that's just me :(. That's how it comes across to an outsider. Just saying. Doesn't really make the forum very appealing.

I am so confused, I thought IT managers were supposed to have Audi estates with an Orange 5 on the roof and only visit trail centres. Have I missed something?