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Oh, Mike and the long-cherished team of NSMB.....thank you for this gem of an article. Nothing more to add, except....that it is oh so true. 

My own mortality and the fact that I am turning 50 next year has brought me to not only buying my kid a DJ but getting myself a BMX for an indoor park and a foam pit. 

Long live having the balls of having the ability to be wrong and ok with it, and not having to prove anything to anybody, except they are wrong, of course.

One more reason why I love nsmb.com

I come from a bmx/skateboarding background (beginning to end of 80s) before I started to ride those first mountainbikes. It all comes down to automatisms, those ingrained and well-practised movement patterns that help the mind and body relax. It needs constant practise and refinement, and the odd crash or two, yes - but it is nothing out of the ordinary. 

Then again, no one has to ride techy lines or go full-send mode. That is the beauty of biking. Do whatever feels good and true. And scare yourself a little or a lot sometimes or often. Live and ride to the fullest.

My exact thoughts, from what I have heard about the levers and seen happening to the plastic I am in no mood of trying that one. I am still remembering the old Gustav M fondly...and am really wondering why Magura had to produce a completely new brake with this carbotexture stuff.

Hahahaha...McSyncro. 

I really like the references to that Japanese Warlord, or were they even?

Happy Holidays, beloved folks and fellow far away riders on NSMB.

I definitely let you know once he got it. Am waiting for the delivery myself. Sooo excited.

That book is a really great idea, ordered it a few days ago.... My son is turning 10 in two weeks, he loves riding his mountain bike...he is not a native speaker of English but reaally curious and open....and loves good stories and pictures.

Now I need to check them out. 

Oh....and I still rock a pair of Roach pants in dark blue where the knees are like in indigo. Almost look like a normal pair of pants. A bit baggy but still awesome. Bought them at the original Cove in 2001 I think. Had a few seams replaced by a professional. Can not kill them.

Riding in pants is wesome. I bought a Fox race pants two seasons ago, and it was such an eye-opener. Riding regularly in them, but am a bit worried about crashing in them. The material seems to be easy to tear, are the Royal race pants any different? Guess these are the ones that the 50 to 1 are wearing.

Double amputee had to be shot because he was wielding a knife, after each headline I think I can not be shocked...but then something new is happening. Odd that there are never headlines in which white US Americans get shot by the police, or strangled to death, or beaten to death.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/star-blanket-cree-nation-announcement-1.6710662

Thought of sharing this.

Posted by: Endurimil

To be honest these articles are more about creating fear using a small segment of the athletic population. Reality is majority of us age grouper athletes will never reach the weekly and yearly activity level and volume they do. So while it is concerning that this is happening to the the high performance small percentage of athletes for the majority of us all it does is create fear. And also increases the chances of those who are trying to be active of becoming less because they are afraid.

Reality is a lot of death in the age grouper crowd come from another source. Which ironically barely see mention of it anywhere.

Food and beverages.

I am not so sure about the creation of fear, heart-attacks and risks of heart related diseases are real, I think reality is a little more complex than this. It generates traffic for the other site, people talk about it, people maybe start to think and adapt their lifestyle or training, and voila, more care is going to be taken. 

I have no data to support the theory that in untrained or "pastime athletes" the risk of heart issues is present and a danger as well. Maybe that is a task for Syncro?

Posted by: Straw

I think I saw an article about this in Bike, and then asked the guy at Cove about it when I came to visit from Ontario in 2000, looking at universities (I ended up at UVic).  He said there's always more trails. 

While the content is unfortunate, I like these memories.  I don't even have a working bike anymore, but there was a time when I was on this site multiple times daily.

That is a major bummer....go get that fixed.

If it quacks like a duck, walks like a duck....

I understand the mechanisms behind such event, but one part of my brain is still amazed at the level of no-brain, can we call it unbrainery (?), of the people trying to do this, same with MAGA and what was tried in Berlin, Germany (which failed utterly, did not even make it past the first steps, lol).

Kind of like the people who think that Joe Biden is not really Joe Biden but a bunch of actors.

Posted by: syncro

This childlike squabbling is what is probably going to kill the US politcally (and us) economically.

Corrected.

I saw that one as well and my first thought was ...what about the moving parts...are they up for daily abuse in all kinds of weather. But then, I am no engineer, just someone too critical most of the time. I really like the look of the Bullit e-cargo bikes.

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Posted by: Putty

Especially the jabbed ones.

Interesting that many of the former professional road riders get cancer or die of it, not to mention the bodybuilders. Our bodies can only take so much.

Growth hormones are great until they accelerate the growth of cancerous cells....

And even in cases where it's not been growth hormones but stuff that makes muscles go longer and farther it seems that the body can only take so much. No point in trying to turn a vw beetle engine into a Lambo.

Posted by: switch

Pretty much all the arguments.

The assertion that the whole scientific community is in on some conspiracy is crap.  Read up on the older archeological sites he lists but different explain.  The evidence for hominids is very weak at all of them, whereas there is a lot of very good evidence for the timeline and age of humans in North Americ, both archeological and genetic.  Thousands of years is much more than enough to explain the cultures that existed.

While I have not followed that particular discussion for quite a few years now (thanks to no longer being a student of history, but actually having to work fulltime), I disagree with your very first statement on the bias in history and archaeology.

Posted by: Putty

Especially the jabbed ones.

Interesting that many of the former professional road riders get cancer or die of it, not to mention the bodybuilders. Our bodies can only take so much.