On Jan 16, 2010, at 1:03 AM, cyclotourist wrote:
Most comments I get are that I'm on a "road bike" out on the trails. That's something they have a hard time wrapping their minds around.
LOL. Back in my cyclo-cross racing days I would ride the Minnesota River Bottoms Trail on my 'cross bike. Most of the trail is dead flat, the eastern end has small hills. Pleasant ride, not technically demanding except maybe for the sandy bits. I've seen families out with three speeds and the like riding the trail and people on dual-suspension DH bikes with body armor. Takes all kinds, I guess. One day as I passed one of the latter, he shook his head and said "dude, you've got no business being on a road bike down here."
It's funny how technology differentiates the tribe artificially. When I was a kid (40 odd years go), we just had bikes. Some kids had Stingrays, some kids had three speeds, a few had 10 speeds, but they were just the bikes we had and we rode 'em everywhere: streets, trails, parks, woods, etc. The bikes were a tool for fun and for getting around (nobody's parents drove us places, good grief). Somewhere along the like came BMX bikes and mountain bikes and suddenly there was a sharp differentiation. BMXers were rad, MTBers were cool and roadies were stuck up. Now we have subdivisions within the divisions: 29ers, DHers, SSers, fixies, crabon, retro, yadda yadda yadda.
Can't we all just ride bikes?
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