First proper hardtail post is brill 🙂
I’m 37. I do lust after a T4, but I draw the line at anything above 130mm travel and the busyness of events like Ard Rock turn me off. I’d rather be out in the hills with a couple of mates or on my own, plotting my own route.
I love mountain biking for loads of different reasons: the buzz, the perspective placed on life when looking down from above, the changing of the seasons, the distance you can cover vs walking etc
But I guess the main reason is that I’m yet to find anything else that gives me that genuinely exciting tingly feeling in my stomach like I get the evening before a ride.