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  • Has mountain biking become the new golf
  • jamj1974
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    Ok, I’ll bite. 😉

    I know its a joke on here but am I the only one trying to avoid Audi driving… mtb’ers

    Well, I can’t avoid myself.

    For the record I started in 1994

    Personally, I can’t stand you ‘Johnny come lately’s’. If you’re not pre-1990 you shouldn’t be on the trail.

    I don’t mind people having fun I mind them being in my personal space

    That’s not what you said to me last time.

    even the quality of nob has gone down

    Post-1993, almost certainly.

    philxx1975
    Free Member

    Looks like all the fair weather bikers stayed in and did their nails today.

    I found the receipt for my first ever MTB 1990 montage, so that’s 26 years of biking in all ,tempus fugit.

    tomhoward
    Full Member

    1990 montage, so that’s 26 years of biking in all ,tempus fugit.

    Indeed it does. Have you had a chip on your shoulder for all of it?

    Out of interest, where, in the range of mtbs available at the time, did it sit?

    Tell me, does using Latin reinforce your view of your own superiority?

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    vickypea
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    Well I was out today, but judging by the number of comments you’ve posted on this thread, OP, I assume you didn’t find time 😉

    philxx1975
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    but judging by the number of comments you’ve posted on this thread

    What 0 in the 10 hours since my last post, your logic and my observation posted at 8am this morning from a car park full of bikers 🙄

    relliott6879
    Free Member

    I like my Audi, it’s a good car. Should I be in a position to buy a Santa Cruz mountain bike, I’d be very tempted, they’re good bikes.

    For the record, as others have shared, I first started mountain biking around 1989/90 on a 15 speed Emmelle which I suspect was made of wrought iron.

    singlespeedstu
    Full Member

    Riding since 88. Multiple SantaCruz’s in my time. Do I win a prize?
    Ride what you like no one gives a hoot.

    CaptainFlashheart
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    I do so hate to agree with Stu, but I’m going to have to! 🙂

    jimjam
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    I remember bodging some cranks onto a scrambler back in the early 70s, simultaneously inventing mountainbiking and the first full suspension mtb. Singlespeeding too. I called rufty tufty biking back then. When I held the inaugural rufty tufty biking world champs there were only two competitors, me and a one legged alcoholic who lived in the forest and shouted obscenities at me.

    Suffice to say, I won. Not long after dominating the sport I quit in favour of road riding wherein I invented time trial and cyclocross.

    I do not own a Santa Cruz or an Audi, but I felt the above needed saying.

    singlespeedstu
    Full Member

    I miss those days off getting pissed while standing on one leg and swearing at jimjam. 😥

    codybrennan
    Free Member

    STW is great, 3 pages of reaction from some obvious trolling, business as usual 🙂

    Junkyard
    Free Member

    I have a santa Cruz and and an Orange and a SS

    I used to be niche but as everything is 26 ” theese days I am a bit retro

    Tom_W1987
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    How big is your personal space? Measured in km?

    Km? Rank amateur, I measure mine in nautical miles.

    miketbrown
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    Had to sell my Audi to pay for the bikes. Love riding out in the wild and trail centres. What’s not to like? (except you)

    Edric64
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    I must admit I preferred cycling when fewer people did it and it was seen as being odd to do it

    jamj1974
    Full Member

    To be fair as the OP had said in the thread. As long as you are not a nob who cares. Ride anything as long as it is safe and 1st ride, last ride or somewhere inbetween – it’s all good.

    Northwind
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    Every time this thread comes up, I post this.

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    sirromj
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    I wouldn’t mind rich people mountain biking so much if they could just be a bit more generous and swing their old bikes* to me.

    * usually about six months I believe.

    mcnultycop
    Full Member

    Golf is too difficult.

    bensales
    Free Member

    Perception is everything.

    Just last weekend I turned up at Cannock, took a top of the range Orange Five off the roof rack of a brand new Mercedes estate and slowly rode round 12 miles of man made trails whilst wearing mostly Rapha gear.

    To the outsider I looked like one of the newcomers the OP Is moaning about.

    In reality I’ve been riding mtbs since 1986, raced the original Malverns for several years until someone was murdered in the tent next to me, had the first Orange Clockwork, worked in the trade and all sorts. Just because I’ve been lucky enough to have a successful career and therefore buy decent stuff, and unlucky enough to have an injury meaning I currently ride slow.

    Sod off.

    thestabiliser
    Free Member

    Just because I’ve been lucky enough to have a successfully career and therefore buy decent stuff

    Whadju buy an orange 5 for then? Heh heh. Heh.

    bensales
    Free Member

    Whadju buy an orange 5 for then? Heh heh

    Serious answer? Because I love Orange bikes, and have done for 25 years. I’ve ridden most things and frankly for the limits of my ability and the riding I do, a Five is fine.

    genesiscore502011
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    mcnultycop – Member
    Golf has that corporate feel.
    Putting my Canyon in my Lexus and getting out in the hills is a different experience.

    🙂

    bigad40
    Free Member

    When we start destroying vast areas of natural land to lay down a few bits of nice grass and fancy club house with a dress code we might be getting close.
    Until then people can drive a ride what they like.

    mikewsmith
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    jamj1974 – Member
    To be fair as the OP had said in the thread. As long as you are not a nob who cares.

    But only in a vague way, mostly implying that anyone who hasn’t ridding since he has is a nob for just existing… lame Sunday morning troll

    thestabiliser
    Free Member

    Serious answer?

    I wouldn’t have dignified it with a response 🙂

    yunki
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    I’m of the opinion that mountain biking has become the new Rolf

    rOcKeTdOg
    Full Member

    Just avoid trail centres OP, all the ex golfers seem adverse to natural trails and stick to groomed stuff. You never see an unreplaced divot or unraked bunker at a trail centre do you?

    mcnultycop
    Full Member

    Surely that’s the equivalent of a braking bump?

    mikewsmith
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    rOcKeTdOg – Member
    Just avoid trail centres OP

    It is probably easier for some than leaning to play nicely with others and share 😉

    mboy
    Free Member

    Golf has that corporate feel.

    Putting my Canyon in my Lexus and getting out in the hills is a different experience.

    You failed to give a nod to your clothing and tyre sponsors, but otherwise, a strong 8/10 for effort and completely losing everyone else with your ironing!

    Chapeau sir!

    TooTall
    Free Member

    IMBA reckon there’s now more people in the USA who own a mountain bike than golf clubs.
    So, in that sense, yes.

    Northwind
    Full Member

    rOcKeTdOg – Member

    You never see an unreplaced divot or unraked bunker at a trail centre do you?

    HAH. The equivalent of an unreplaced divot would be skidding everywhere and never lifting a shovel.

    wrecker
    Free Member

    Roadying is the new golf. MTBing is still far too niche.

    perchypanther
    Free Member

    “It’s the future, I’ve tasted it….”

    Nico
    Free Member

    Mountain bike sales are flatlining

    Doesn’t that mean they’ve died?

    brassneck
    Full Member

    Look at some of the sponsors in the road riding world (and I include sportives in there): Dimension Data, ING Direct, Maserati, Tag Heuer, Jaguar. They are sponsoring cycling because that’s where their customers are going.

    Interesting point, but is it the other way around? Customer demographic pulling them in.

    Anyway, it’s quite simple.

    Rule 1: Don’t be a dick
    Rule 2: See Rule 1.

    brassneck
    Full Member

    I usually ride stright from home, and to be honest I very very rarely see any other mountian bikers. When I do, we ignore each other as we almost certainly know one another and secret training is a shameful secret not to be spoken of.

    jamj1974
    Full Member

    brassneck – Member
    Anyway, it’s quite simple.
    Rule 1: Don’t be a dick
    Rule 2

    Think that sums it up nicely. Mountain biking and life.

    ajt123
    Free Member

    I live and, mostly, ride in Surrey.

    There certainly are a lot of blokes with money, flash cars and bikes, but honestly, so what?

    If you are making an argument against rich people having nice stuff, fair enough, but it isn’t a mtb argument.

    I get the point that over-crowded trails are annoying, but that’s really an argument against the sport becoming more popular.

    I think one of the reasons road cycling has grown much more rapidly than mtb is that mtbers and the culture is a bit more spiky, less club orientated, dare I say it a bit more selfish.

    I think there is also a valuable point to make about the consumerism in mountain biking. We all like nice toys, and, if I’m honest, if I had some spare cash going I would definately splash it on some new kit.

    Equally, the industry does seem to focus a lot of its development on aspirational marginal performance gains which don’t help the average rider. For instance, I probably wouldn’t notice the stiffness gains of the move to boost, but if they could improve the durability of hub / headset / BB bearings that would be a big plus to me.

    But, objectively, unless someone is slagging you off for having an older bike / cheap stuff (In which case they are a total loser and laugh it off) someone else having good kit doesn’t harm you, the harm is only in your head.

    Frankly it isn’t the new golf – that is road cycling – but I would agree that like pretty much everything it is fairly fashion orientated and commercialised. Opt out of worrying about it.

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