You’re hackin’ up my vibe. I ended the day with a little time for a ride all to myself and someone just had to share their opinion.
A couple of weeks ago I was out with a guy going over the Vulture’s Knob course and we came to section that he just didn’t like. Well as we were warming up, mind you, we role up on someone that had a lot of input on how to ride. Now we were stopped to check this thing out and he was stopped…well for a rest. This section just doesn’t have a great drop in and to be honest it took some nerve for me to hit the first time. Some how this rider is still hanging out and has plenty of “great” advice. We ignore him until he finally moves on. End of story…or so I thought.
Now back to today. I’m tooling around on the mountain bike enjoying the weather and hear comes super star. His comment was along the lines that he has this opinion that if you are going to race sport or expert you should be able to ride everything or it just isn’t safe… Well, I put my teeth through my tongue and politely disagreed. And rode on fuming, thinking about how his less than race shape self was out on the trails “hacking up” all the climbs.
Shortly I came upon a kid walking. He politely stopped and moved to the side of the trail with some guidance from his father. He was wearing a big ol’ smile on some of the cutest cheeks going, unfortunately we was pushing the limits of being a statistic in our national epidemic. But the guy was out enjoying the day with some exercise…I got my vibe back and enjoyed the rest of the ride.
Anyone have an opinion on this?
By the way…regardless of anyone’s opinion. This young rider is great, particularly at cross, and can dismount and mount like no one’s business. I’m sure he ran the section faster than most rode it.
Have fun
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