Posts tagged with 'ask-uncle-dave'

"I could see myself participating in more trail maintenance if it didn’t involve an equally clueless cluster of alpha males telling everybody what they are doing wrong..."

"I'm not suggesting that every online interaction with a hate spewing white supremacist is a chance to obtain a new worldview..."

"It's like jamming a cucumber down the urethra of a flaccid penis. I would imagine. No fun. No fun at all..."

"Very occasionally, Uncle Dave feels the need to talk about something technical, such that he can maintain his bona fides as a 'bicycle expert.'"

"I’m a little bit saddened that Specialized Gravity thought that this was the fourth most important piece of information..."

" Are we guiding the sport? Or are we just another arm that can be used to sell people shit that they don't really need..."

"It's easy to feel inadequate if you aren't slaying foreign trail with a Red Bull in one hand and a Gopro in the other..."

Uncle Dave is here to cheer you up - by making you feel better about your 2016 - but at least he's still keen on sharing music...

"If we all start riding like that, we’re not going to have any trails left due to all the damage we will cause and people we will piss off..."

"Maybe some cop saying you can’t drink a beer on the beach. Or some old guy with a moustache lecturing you trailside about your mountain bike..."

"I crashed 10 years ago and my tooth turned blue. Should I get it fixed and give up my bluetooth joke or keep it..."

My wife has compared me to our dog in the sense that I need some sort of activity every day or I get all fidgety, at least I hope that's what she meant...

"I waded through pictures of myself peppered with insane hashtags and dog whistles**, and I actually started to feel a bit sad..."

"At night, between mouthfuls of food, we'd discuss how... the skill set of BC riders is light years ahead of us..."

"No matter what you're doing, a mountain biker is standing on the side of a trail somewhere, waiting to tell you that you're doing it wrong..."

"Some scoundrel, maybe even the Industry, had taken that rock and skinny filled monstrosity and replaced it with a baby-bottomed smooth “flow trail” that required zero skill to navigate...'

"The last thing I want is to travel 4hrs by kangaroo to the nearest town, only to be scrwed over by the bike shop charging double what it costs online..."

"Is anybody, at all, swayed into a purchasing decision based on the gear choice of a mid-pack Cat 1 DH racer?"

"A great fork can cover up a lot of mistakes and a bit of extra fork travel will usually add some capability to your bike..."

"Now my girlfriend wants me to sell my bikes, skis, and "extreme toys" and take better care of myself..."

“Old guys with grey beards pass me and say, “Gee, I never pass people”. Should I start commuting by bike every day?”

I'm in the wedding party and I have some obligations, but it seems like everything has been scheduled to prevent mountain biking...

"I get tense and on the wrong line, and then suddenly, my front wheel is not under me and I'm on the ground..."

"Thank goodness they aren’t trying to educate us on this stuff and are instead focussed on creating new acronyms..."