"There are absolutely places in the world where riding secret trails is the only option."
This statement kinda totally ruins the whole argument for me. That's like telling the cop that pulls you over for speeding that it was "the only option for me to get to work on time". Guess what, you're still getting a ticket, and they're probably writing it for the maximum because you were being a fucking idiot for thinking that excuse would ever work.
FFS, in high school my crew used to pedal 10 miles on the road each way to ride 10 miles on good trails. We also rode not-so-good backyard trails, as well as some probably illegal trails, if we were feeling lazy, but we would never claim that either of those were the only option.
Oct. 5, 2021, 11:08 a.m. - Justin White
"There are absolutely places in the world where riding secret trails is the only option." This statement kinda totally ruins the whole argument for me. That's like telling the cop that pulls you over for speeding that it was "the only option for me to get to work on time". Guess what, you're still getting a ticket, and they're probably writing it for the maximum because you were being a fucking idiot for thinking that excuse would ever work. FFS, in high school my crew used to pedal 10 miles on the road each way to ride 10 miles on good trails. We also rode not-so-good backyard trails, as well as some probably illegal trails, if we were feeling lazy, but we would never claim that either of those were the only option.