Loved this article. Its something I have thought about quite a bit and have been on both sides of at different points. I Started riding when I was quite young and really began more seriously through highschool and college, and a few years after college. I had put a lot of money into the bike that I had and it was ridden to death and no longer really safe to keep getting abused. Combine that with getting married and having a baby, then another baby, moving twice to new and unfamiliar locations, and picking up DH skateboarding cause it fit my current time and location and budget. And the next thing you know it had been years and years since I last rode a mtn bike. HUGE Regret. One of the biggest hurdles that I can look back on now is thinking that I needed to replace my old bike with one of similar value. That thinking kept the door shut a lot longer than it ever needed to be. I should have bought an affordable and solid steel hardtail so I would at least have a bike I Could Actually Ride, even if it meant at a lesser capacity. I couldn't have really conjured more money, and I couldn't have conjured more time. But I could have made it work.
Nov. 8, 2017, 2:13 p.m. - Metacomet
Loved this article. Its something I have thought about quite a bit and have been on both sides of at different points. I Started riding when I was quite young and really began more seriously through highschool and college, and a few years after college. I had put a lot of money into the bike that I had and it was ridden to death and no longer really safe to keep getting abused. Combine that with getting married and having a baby, then another baby, moving twice to new and unfamiliar locations, and picking up DH skateboarding cause it fit my current time and location and budget. And the next thing you know it had been years and years since I last rode a mtn bike. HUGE Regret. One of the biggest hurdles that I can look back on now is thinking that I needed to replace my old bike with one of similar value. That thinking kept the door shut a lot longer than it ever needed to be. I should have bought an affordable and solid steel hardtail so I would at least have a bike I Could Actually Ride, even if it meant at a lesser capacity. I couldn't have really conjured more money, and I couldn't have conjured more time. But I could have made it work.