Deniz, I CANNOT say enough what a great piece this is and it's exactly how I feel. It drives me absolutely INSANE how lazy, self centered and entitled the new crop of riders are.
I was a year younger than you when I first started MTBing, within a year I had moved from the P.O.S DB ReCoil to a Giant Trance and I finally hit a trail I'd been told about from friends who were riding in the 90s. "It's sweet" they said, "We used to ride it with only a few dabs" they said, so I expected something amazing, probably a bit over my skillset, but none the less, a fun challenge. Well boy was I wrong, the trail was only used a bit by locals in the area as a foot path to get about, was not cleared, had serious erosion, boggs etc and on my first attempt, if I rode 10% I'd say that was a lot, I spent most of my time walking, but not around trail braiding, but you know what, I had the best time. I even removed my bar ends off my massively wide 630mm bar it was so tight, but still the best time and all I could think when I was done was, " Wow, that trail was insane, can't believe I walked so much, man must I suck, I have long way to go with my skills, time to get to work".
I've been riding that trail since 2005, I brought it back to life and for years was the only person riding it and then in the late 2000s/early 2010s as more people came into the sport, more started riding it and I've had to deal with a lot of those new riders having that same entitled attitude of wanting to ride what is an essentially red/black trail, despite being beginners and some having no problem making it so they can ride it because, "No one could ride this, right" :madman:
March 16, 2022, 5:01 a.m. - Lynx .
Deniz, I CANNOT say enough what a great piece this is and it's exactly how I feel. It drives me absolutely INSANE how lazy, self centered and entitled the new crop of riders are. I was a year younger than you when I first started MTBing, within a year I had moved from the P.O.S DB ReCoil to a Giant Trance and I finally hit a trail I'd been told about from friends who were riding in the 90s. "It's sweet" they said, "We used to ride it with only a few dabs" they said, so I expected something amazing, probably a bit over my skillset, but none the less, a fun challenge. Well boy was I wrong, the trail was only used a bit by locals in the area as a foot path to get about, was not cleared, had serious erosion, boggs etc and on my first attempt, if I rode 10% I'd say that was a lot, I spent most of my time walking, but not around trail braiding, but you know what, I had the best time. I even removed my bar ends off my massively wide 630mm bar it was so tight, but still the best time and all I could think when I was done was, " Wow, that trail was insane, can't believe I walked so much, man must I suck, I have long way to go with my skills, time to get to work". I've been riding that trail since 2005, I brought it back to life and for years was the only person riding it and then in the late 2000s/early 2010s as more people came into the sport, more started riding it and I've had to deal with a lot of those new riders having that same entitled attitude of wanting to ride what is an essentially red/black trail, despite being beginners and some having no problem making it so they can ride it because, "No one could ride this, right" :madman: