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  • Purist MTB'er
  • masonmarxx
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    i best get rid of me bike now 😉 cant keep up with “purity”

    yunki
    Free Member

    Kulhavy, Sauser, Overend, Tomac, Baker, Absalon and Juarez to name but a few purists, massive respect.

    you’re almost there but if you were really a purist and not just a desperate wannabe.. then you wouldn’t have a fricken clue what any of the names above mean..
    why..?
    cos you’d be too busy riding bikes to be bumming up to these toned adonis in your room at night via the pages of some corporate mens appreciation magazine..

    you are unchaste.. contaminated.. get a life dude.. you sold out before you even started

    sunnrider
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    Nice post and fair do´s to you.
    Personally, I´m a sh1t biker and need all the help money can buy. Glad not to be a purist, I´d have given up ages ago.

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    djglover
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    Sounds like an OP from a guy whose wife irons a crease down the front of his stonewash M&S jeans.

    PURE MAN!

    kennyp
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    I’m proud to be a Purist, been MTB’ing for over 20 years, most of you are doing it wrong.

    Most of us are enjoying it (whatever type of biking it is) therefore I’d rather suggest we’re doing it right.

    fibre
    Free Member

    You’ve broken one of the most important rules in the purist rule book!
    Page: 248 section 2B – “Purists do not participate in interwebs based forums.”

    Purist MTB’ers don’t need a 45 litre rucksack for two hour rides stuffed to the gills with every “cool tool”, “Swiss army knife” and cotter pin remover even if it has a hydration system fitted.

    I don’t know anyone with cotter pin cranks on their MTB.

    Are you selling the Zaskar to make way for a real purist bike?. An alloy framed carbon forked bike with disc brakes isn’t purist, you need something like this…

    To be honest it doesn’t matter how or what you ride, so long as you enjoy it.

    devs
    Free Member

    :facepalm:
    The list of STWers with a sense of humour that I’d like to meet and ride with is getting shorter.

    GlitterGary
    Free Member

    Devs- you’ve hit the nail on the head.

    yunki
    Free Member

    some things you just shouldn’t joke about..

    fizzer
    Free Member

    Love it! Except I call it Jey Pride. Couple more things to add to the list – handlebars, must be of flat profile no more than 580mm wide – riders must be less than 10% body fat.

    nickf
    Free Member

    full bouncer

    As soon as I see this phrase I switch off.

    manitou
    Free Member

    agree with the bit about the rucksack/camelbak comment.The funniest sight is seeing someone in xc race with a full to bursting M.U.L.E. or similar on their back.

    globalti
    Free Member

    Well I enjoyed the post and I applaud the bloke for sitting and typing all that. I would certainly class myself as a traditionalist as my mountain bike is as light and simple as I can build it, hardtail, rigid forks, original Hope minis, thumbshifters, all designed for reliability and light weight. On a recent trip over High Street (25 miles and well over 4,000 ft of carrying and pushing the bike) I had considerably more left in my tank at the end of the ride than my three companions who were on FS bikes and were absolutely shelled by the weight of the things…. and they all said they couldn’t get past me on the fast downhill sections.

    Don’t agree with the bits about bottles – hydration packs are perfect for mountain bikers and I certainly don’t agree on cafes, a cafe stop makes any ride more sociable and enjoyable and we’re not riding to suffer, are we?

    I liked the bit about mechanical reliability though; a well-maintained bike shouldn’t break down and I must have spent several hours in the last 23 years standing around shivering while some fellow rider struggled to fix something that had come adrift or needed adjusting because of lack of maintenance.

    Why flame the bloke for a controversial post? He has his opinions, that doesn’t make him worthy of abuse. Cyclists are terrible fashion conformists and the reaction of many on here proves that.

    philconsequence
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    simonm
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    lol@ Jey pride

    nickf
    Free Member

    Why flame the bloke for a controversial post?

    Nothing wrong with controversial, but if you post in a “I’m right, you’re wrong” manner, what on earth do you expect?

    ooOOoo
    Free Member

    Love it! Except I call it Jey Pride. Couple more things to add to the list – handlebars, must be of flat profile no more than 580mm wide – riders must be less than 10% body fat.

    Lol

    camo16
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    All the comments ^^^^^ tell me one thing. We’re all secretly worried that kingkongsfinger MIGHT BE RIGHT! 😆

    Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue.

    philconsequence
    Free Member

    as far as i’m concerned anybody who rides a bike isnt a true ‘purist’

    a real, true ‘Purist’ is one who understands that riding erodes god’s greatest gift to us and chooses to stay at home masturbating violently into their retro rapha cap

    camo16
    Free Member

    Phil, I must be a purist then. I’ve filled three caps already. 😆

    * Sighs with relief and wafts cap over sore willy area *

    BadlyWiredDog
    Full Member

    .

    teamhurtmore
    Free Member

    Yea, well done kingkongsfinger – a fun OP. Pertinent in many ways and brilliant at provoking responses. The vehemence of some seems to be closely correlated with the points you made. Quite a giggle to lurk and read!!

    Next stop – can you try triathlon? Perhaps a bit too middle class/Tory for STW though!!!!

    alfabus
    Free Member

    I struggle with long sentences.

    The gist I picked up was “I have picked a bike from a particular point in time and will now decree everything that came before as ‘old and ridiculous’ and everything that has come after as ‘unnecessary'”

    load of bollocks.

    Just ride.

    philconsequence
    Free Member

    chilllll people, anyone would think benji had written an article telling people they should just go out and enjoy riding or something!

    Singlespeed_Shep
    Free Member

    Single speed bikes, oh dear. Why go back in time and ride one. Maybe you’re an attention seeker or you cannot adjust gears, most SS women and bean lickers. Most SS people use them as an excuse for being slow, you do not fit into the Purist category, unless you where there in the conception, Re-pack

    A purist is one who desires that an item remain true to its essence and free from adulterating or diluting influences

    Stoatsbrother
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    Still looking for any hint in the OP that he is joking rather than being a bit of a twit.

    Those who think the former may be getting it just as wrong as those who think the latter, and may just be trying to show how chilled and very sensitive they are to hidden humour.

    For me the OP is a decent bit of polemic writing, and interesting, but not leavened by any humour or self-insight…

    thomthumb
    Free Member

    Kulhavy

    rides a 29er

    Sauser,

    rides a 29er

    Overend,

    rides a 29er

    Tomac

    rides a 29er

    Baker,

    not sure who you mean

    Absalon

    i’ll give you that

    and Juarez

    rides a 29er.

    you massive plum.

    ir_bandito
    Free Member

    Hydration is strictly via bottles

    tosser.

    that is all.

    IanMunro
    Free Member

    Being a real cyclist I can understand where the OP is coming from, but I fear he has strayed from the course of cycling pureness.
    For those who wish to follow the true path I recommend the The leauge of cycling purity

    Mattie_H
    Free Member

    I like the OP. I don’t necessarily agree with all of it but I really like it.

    swoosh
    Free Member

    I have a 26″ hardtail which runs the same tyres all year but might change from year to year depending on developments or changes in tyre ranges when my preferred tyres are discontinued and it doesn’t have a ‘dropper seatpost’. I always wear a helmet (even for nipping to the shops), use a 15litre bag with hydration system, don’t own 3/4 length baggies, do wear lycra on it’s own in winter, don’t strap stuff to my bike because I’m wearing a bag that will carry it, haven’t ridden at a trail centre for 10 months, have only driven to a ride 4 times in 2011 and I’ve been mountain biking for 16 years and riding bikes for more than 25 years.

    Am I a purist or not? I can’t decide… what I can decide is that I don’t want to be a purist if that means i’m anything like the OP 🙄

    Skippy
    Full Member

    What a strange post, I just dont get the point of your message. So you are a purist and as such sit in your ivory tower making critical appraisals of other people riding bikes and having fun. Live and let live…

    rewski
    Free Member

    Never felt quite on the same train of thought with 90% of people who post on here, never seem to quite fit in a category, to which there are quite a few, think I’m in a minority, dare I say a purist.

    I would say you have issues that are deeper than just cycling.

    kingkongsfinger
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    sneakyg4 – Member

    I have registered just to salute the OP, I like your style.

    Unfortunately I can never live up to it, I like all bikes; mountain, road, whatever.

    I like most bike, non MTB’s I own are a TT bike and two road bikes that I race on, not at the same time and when im not racing the MTB

    cynic-al – Member
    What a dick.

    Ya Mam.

    Shackleton – Member

    Why do I get the feeling you read the Daily Mail and vote BNP?

    Your feelings are wrong.

    pete68 – Member

    I sort see what you mean but people should just do what they enjoy. If thats not the same as you then does it matter. Also, following you’re criteria how is Kulhavy a purist? He rides a carbon full sus 29er!

    People are getting their chammy in a twist about 29’ers, I never mention that a 29 er is or is not Purist bike as with carbon or alloys. 29’ers are being ridden by PRO’s because the sponsor wants to sell a load and get R+D feedback. 29’ers arnt sorted yet, to many variations in angles by all makes still, wait a year at least before buying when all the R+D settles down.

    lardcore – Member

    “Yo, imma gonna let you finish but PURIST MTBing is the best thing of all time. OF ALL TIME!”

    The irony of screaming that all is lost and we need to return to roots, promptly following by getting out the ruler, setting strict definitions for said roots (not forgetting mandatory brand names) is not lost.

    I cycled on a Soviet road bike made of fricking gas tubes, with tubular tires on icy roads with temperatures reaching -15C wearing a winter jacket which would be rejected by most charity shops. Where do I get my purist medal?

    Top trolling though.

    Not about returning to your roots, its about riding bkes and wearing/using/carring stuff that you dont need and ending up looking like a Joey.Purist medal, not sure where to get one, try writing to Jim’ll fix it

    j-cru – Member

    Does anyone else get the feeling the OP dictated this post to a servant whilst sat on a queen anne chair in a wood panelled study, its like a 1900’s etiquette pamphlet for MTB debutantes FFS

    Like this post but not true, a chaise longue is my bag baby.

    yunki – Member

    Kulhavy, Sauser, Overend, Tomac, Baker, Absalon and Juarez to name but a few purists, massive respect.

    you’re almost there but if you were really a purist and not just a desperate wannabe.. then you wouldn’t have a fricken clue what any of the names above mean..
    why..?
    cos you’d be too busy riding bikes to be bumming up to these toned adonis in your room at night via the pages of some corporate mens appreciation magazine..

    you are unchaste.. contaminated.. get a life dude.. you sold out before you even started

    Yo Dude, no sell out… flick over your palmares for inspection, and stop associating me with your homo erotic night time magazine fantasy’s.

    djglover – Member

    Sounds like an OP from a guy whose wife irons a crease down the front of his stonewash M&S jeans.

    PURE MAN!

    Dont have a wife, although I am getting married this Sunday (true) as for M+S, jeans and creases, the mind boggles, thats sick.

    devs – Member

    :facepalm:
    The list of STWers with a sense of humour that I’d like to meet and ride with is getting shorter.

    Posted 11 hours ago #Report-Post

    GlitterGary – Member

    Devs- you’ve hit the nail on the head.

    EXACTLY

    teamhurtmore – Member

    Yea, well done kingkongsfinger – a fun OP. Pertinent in many ways and brilliant at provoking responses. The vehemence of some seems to be closely correlated with the points you made. Quite a giggle to lurk and read!!

    Next stop – can you try triathlon? Perhaps a bit too middle class/Tory for STW though!!!!

    maybe i will do a triathalope one, but my wife to be is a triathalope and I have enough material to go on for decades on the subject, although she can go round corners unlike 99% of “them” who treat corners like 50 pence pieces.

    Paceman
    Free Member

    Purist??? … more of a Mountain Biking Luddite 😉

    DenDennis
    Free Member

    OP is GOLD. the joke’s on those whose protesteth too much

    ending up looking like a Joey.

    😆

    GaryLake
    Free Member

    I’m confused, I’ve got a 100mm hardtail but also a full susser. Am I purist or does the full susser cancel the 100mm hardtail out?

    THESE THINGS MATTER DAMMIT!

    randomjeremy
    Free Member

    I say

    grum
    Free Member

    Purist = tedious person full of inflated self-importance. True of pretty much any field you care to choose.

    Pretty good troll though I have to say.

    ooOOoo
    Free Member

    When I get worried about my purist status I ask the animals on the trails.
    Squirrels and badgers have seen it all, and speak the truth.

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