Whilst out riding with a new bunch recently, I realised that I think we may be the two wheeled equivalent of the academia and higher orders in general.
They were nice enough chaps. But blissfully ignorant in what went before their 'all mountain' bikes. and what and where and who made what they were doing that Sunday afternoon even possible.
To them it was all flash and bounce. The crassness of not understanding any of the history or rites of passage that most of us have been privvy to, nee, written/ been involved with personally, was all to clear in their faces when overtaken down a chalky decent on what basically amounted to an old fashioned steel racing bike with marginally bigger tyres.
and them riding Enduro's...shame on you and your five inches.
It strikes me now that we are the grand old fathers of our sport. Some grander and older than others and some seemingly young even, but born with the soul intact. Out there every week knowing where the bread of our sport is buttered.
This is where the soul riders reside. We are the history.
Keep it strong. Be proud. Re-ride and not fade away.
Long live short travel.
They were nice enough chaps. But blissfully ignorant in what went before their 'all mountain' bikes. and what and where and who made what they were doing that Sunday afternoon even possible.
To them it was all flash and bounce. The crassness of not understanding any of the history or rites of passage that most of us have been privvy to, nee, written/ been involved with personally, was all to clear in their faces when overtaken down a chalky decent on what basically amounted to an old fashioned steel racing bike with marginally bigger tyres.
and them riding Enduro's...shame on you and your five inches.
It strikes me now that we are the grand old fathers of our sport. Some grander and older than others and some seemingly young even, but born with the soul intact. Out there every week knowing where the bread of our sport is buttered.
This is where the soul riders reside. We are the history.
Keep it strong. Be proud. Re-ride and not fade away.
Long live short travel.
