Are ‘Disabled’ People Who Ride E-Bikes Just Lazy?
"Are these people really in need of electric assistant on trails? Seems like more pure lazy convenience as time goes by..."
Uncle Dave Brings You Kona 2017
"I showed up in Squamish on a Sunny Tuesday afternoon and encountered a large group of lubricated Kona bicycle dealers hurling furniture into a swimming pool..."
Dumbing Down Trails – Dumbing Up Bikes?
"Thank goodness they aren’t trying to educate us on this stuff and are instead focussed on creating new acronyms..."
Should I Get A Trail Dog?
"The muddy mess that your dog creates in the back seat of your friend’s new Audi is the reason you no longer get invited over to their house..."
Running Roughshod
"This is far from the most egregious example of filming being done with little to no regard for the environment or surroundings..."
How Do I Move to Canada?
"I have decided to leave the UK and move to Canada, specifically the sea-to-sky corridor. I think that's what it's called?"
Excessive Celebration?
"Dual slalom was my best event - as long as the jumps were no more than knee high I could compete with the best of them..."
Why Do Pro Riders Get Off Easy?
"Yahoos band together to create an echo chamber to support their entitled views, build on the insanity, and then take it all a step further..."
EDITORIAL
Serenely Swallowing Standards
I know a dude who has had three warranty frames in five years, from the same company, all using completely different headset standards. He’s not even mad anymore.
29er in Front – Party in the Back
"This sounded like a really bad idea as I first read your question, but as I dig into it a little bit deeper it doesn’t sound quite as awful..."
GIVE ME FREE SH!T!
"What is the width of the handlebars on my bike? I’m sitting on the sofa and am too lazy to do this myself..."
Uncle Dave Has a Booboo
"I hit the ground like a sack of discarded pornography mistakenly shipped to a Salt Lake City Safeway..."
Find Me a Job to Pay for Sweet Bikes
"Not child labour bad - more like privileged child with a distorted worldview having his dreams crushed kind of bad..."
Are Product Reviews Full of Sh!t?
"How have we collapsed inward to a state where product reviews aren't worth the damn megabyte they consume..."
Uncle Dave – Commencal Frame Winner!
"I can hold my breath underwater for four hours, chew a shark's head off with my bare teeth, put a bullet through a gnat's ass at two miles..."
I Broke My Face and My Balls Left Me
"I debated how to answer this question. Earnestly? Sarcastically? Satirically? I finally decided on Scholarly..."
Secret Trails, Math, and Night Riding
“It can be proven mathematically that the awesomeness of various things (beer, music, mountain bike trails) is directly proportional to its exclusivity.”
I Broke My Ribs – Again
Do you know how to crash? Why can’t you sell your old bike for good money? How cool can a 44 year old really be? Uncle Dave takes on all questions…
Why Would Anyone Ride a Mountain Bike?
"It's expensive, there are lots of other sports that are just as fun, and hikers are pricks. Sell it to me..."
Why Aren’t Mountain Bikers Ambiturners?
"If I were you, I’d treat it like it is masturbation - whatever feels right is probably the correct way to be doing things..."
Dudes Insult My Old Bike
"Send them back home to their trophy wives and stainless steel appliances in sadness and shame..."
Must Get Better – Who To Ride With?
"They will also kind of suck and the concentration of aging crappiness will just cause depression for the entire group..."
OOPS! I Just Broke Your Bike
"Your only recourse is to quietly bad-mouth him behind his back until everybody he has ever met knows that he is an uncouth cheapskate..."
Is Mountain Biking a Personality Disorder?
"Oscar only gets let out of the basement a few times a day and when he does, well, he's off like a roid-raging teenager..."