do people waste money???

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,665
    yeehaamcgee wrote:
    I think there should be a test to determine what mountain bike you're allowed. All bike shops should have a nice gravelly path, a chairlift assited DH course, ans some sick-to-the-power-of-rad northshore.
    Unless you can ride the nrothshore, you're only allowed an Apollo Shockwave.

    a bike license is the only way to make sure the best bikes are bought by the best riders and no one should b allowed to buy a bke deemed above their standard.
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,665
    Also, it's probably worth thinking about investigatin people's pasts to find out if they are, or ever have been hippies.
    If they're fond guilty of hippyism, then they're only allowe rigid singlespeed 29ers, unless they've got dreadlocks, in which case they must shell out for a Jeff Jones bike, there and then, or get shot.
  • Tim.s
    Tim.s Posts: 515
    Some sort of MTB police would be required.
    "Didn't hurt"
  • njee20
    njee20 Posts: 9,613
    But I don't think there's anything wrong with that opinion.

    So if Steve Peat/Julian Absalon/Alberto Contador hops on a £300 Hardrock everyone else on the planet is overbiked!? It just screams of jealousy to me, if folk have the money then fine! It seems to be very much an MTB phenomenon!

    Or do you consider people over housed if they have more bedrooms than family members!?
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,665
    Tim.s wrote:
    Some sort of MTB police would be required.
    If only there was an opinionated enough group of riders to carry out the job. A dynamic duo of such riders would be even better.
  • njee20
    njee20 Posts: 9,613
    Some sort of track for folk to test bikes would be brilliant, I've had people fall off riding around the car park on £2000 bikes!
  • Tim.s
    Tim.s Posts: 515
    I see where you are going with this Yeehaa
    "Didn't hurt"
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,665
    njee20 wrote:
    do you consider people over housed if they have more bedrooms than family members!?
    Of course they are. I can't believe you're even asking that question. Unless they're swingers or something, in which case a lot of bedrooms is necessary.

    All people with MASSIVE houses should be forced to accomodate at least one crack-addicted homeless person from London.
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,665
    Incidentally, why don't the homeless folk from London try somewhere else? I mean, you could live in a burnt out car in the countryside, or even some old miner's houses (there's plenty around) and you only really need to beg enough money for a loaf of bread each day.

    In London, you'd need to scrimp together at LEAST a million pounds per day just to survive.
  • njee20
    njee20 Posts: 9,613
    Crikey, that's a mighty chip on your shoulder Yeeha :-)
  • MountainMonster
    MountainMonster Posts: 7,423
    WGAF what other people ride or wear. Who cares if the bike is not being used "its" limit. The rider may be pushing their limits, which is good enough. Who cares how much it cost. Who cares about anything any other people are doing.

    The people who start these threads are absolute saddos, get a life people.
    My London Road
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,665
    yeehaamcgee wrote:
    Tim.s wrote:
    Some sort of MTB police would be required.
    If only there was an opinionated enough group of riders to carry out the job. A dynamic duo of such riders would be even better.

    it would deffo be the best way to deal with the ever increasing problem of people riding bikes which are too good for them.

    i wonder where we could find this kind of pair of intelligent and unbiased individuals with the ability to see both sides of a story and give advice without prejudice :?
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,665
    I don't think being unbiased matters really. The more biased the better really.
  • popstar
    popstar Posts: 1,392
    IMO if you look at the bike and it screams at you -Have a go on me, then no matter the cost/category is the right bike for you. Amen.
    What could have been (Video)

    I'll choose not put too much stake into someone's opinion who is admittingly terrible though
  • Miggins
    Miggins Posts: 433
    njee20 wrote:
    But I don't think there's anything wrong with that opinion.

    It just screams of jealousy to me, if folk have the money then fine!

    That's your opinion. And there's nothing wrong with that opinion. It could well be jealously. And I reckon much of the time it probably is. Or it could just be level-headedness. People have different priorities. One person might say, "D*ck-head. Look at him. He's way over-biked. Carbon frame and all the latest components and he's rubbish on the trail" - jealousy. Another might say, "Couldn't really justify that carbon frame and all those latest components at my skill level, even though I could afford them" - level-headedness.
    yeehaamcgee wrote:
    If they're fond guilty of hippyism, then they're only allowe rigid singlespeed 29ers
    ....with long, flowing tassles on the ends of the bars. Man.
    After uphill there's downhill
  • yanktanks
    yanktanks Posts: 60
    If they are Happy and riding
    Good Luck to them
    :)
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,665
    This seems to have been split in to two arguments.

    Need (or required) v's want.

    It'd be pretty pointless me going out and spending 5k on a full on downhill race bike, I'd quite like one, but it would be overkill and hence a waste of money.

    Now if I went out and spent a bit less on a 150mm all mountain bike I'd be in with a fighting chance of being able to build up my skills on it.

    Is it not sensible to get the right tool for the job?
  • njee20
    njee20 Posts: 9,613
    You live in London, so wouldn't a 150mm travel AM bike be a bit daft?

    My point is that it's subjective. I choose to ride a 100mm travel FS bike, many other people choose 5-6" travel bikes, many are slower on said bikes, doesn't mean they're over biked/have wasted their money.

    I find it very odd how many people care what others, who they don't know, spend their money on!
  • wordnumb
    wordnumb Posts: 847
    Living in London is daft. Nothing wrong with a 150mm travel bike, some people just have to drive further to use theirs is all. Through all that traffic.

    I suspect that if people only bought the bike they need, rather than the bike they want, production costs for high spec bikes would rise due to their being produced in smaller batches. Nothing wrong with having a quiet chuckle at a stormtrooper throwing 5k around the playpark.
  • Dobbs
    Dobbs Posts: 186
    but people dont deserve bikes they cant ride to their fullest potentil, these people make me sick.

    I really hope you're trolling sheeps, you're normally a rational guy. Maybe leave the mob and get a proper job? I'd have thought all that LSSA would be piling up!
    If you don't like seeing people enjoying themselves, give up riding and take up golf.

    Seriously, all of you busybodies judging if people "deserve" their bikes should mind your own f***ing business and have a word with yourselves.
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,665
    Dobbs wrote:
    Seriously, all of you busybodies judging if people "deserve" their bikes should mind your own f***ing business and have a word with yourselves.
    Are you telling us what we should be thinking?
    i think you should mind your own f***ing business and have a word with yourself.
    People, glass houses, and so on.
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,665
    njee20 wrote:
    You live in London, so wouldn't a 150mm travel AM bike be a bit daft?

    My point is that it's subjective. I choose to ride a 100mm travel FS bike, many other people choose 5-6" travel bikes, many are slower on said bikes, doesn't mean they're over biked/have wasted their money.

    I find it very odd how many people care what others, who they don't know, spend their money on!

    I may live in London, but my riding ground is down in Surrey. Leith Hill, Holmbury Hill; Barry Knows Best, Telegraph Road and Summer's Lightning. Don't need a full-on DH rig for that.
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,665
    Surrey? Oh NOW I understand why you need a big tough 150mm bike :roll:
    You'd be first in the queue for the Apollo Shockwave under my regime. AND I'd make you pump the tyres yourself.
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,665
    Dobbs wrote:
    but people dont deserve bikes they cant ride to their fullest potentil, these people make me sick.

    I really hope you're trolling sheeps, you're normally a rational guy. Maybe leave the mob and get a proper job? I'd have thought all that LSSA would be piling up!
    If you don't like seeing people enjoying themselves, give up riding and take up golf.

    Seriously, all of you busybodies judging if people "deserve" their bikes should mind your own f***ing business and have a word with yourselves.

    i knew it would happen eventually and now i am satisfied.
  • cooldad
    cooldad Posts: 32,599
    yeehaamcgee wrote:
    Surrey? Oh NOW I understand why you need a big tough 150mm bike :roll:
    You'd be first in the queue for the Apollo Shockwave under my regime. AND I'd make you pump the tyres yourself.

    Some of us choose civilisation over sheep.

    But if you take a Shockwave down Deliverance I'll apologise.
    I don't do smileys.

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,665
    :lol:
    Oh wow. There are some dumbarses on here tonight.
  • cooldad
    cooldad Posts: 32,599
    yeehaamcgee wrote:
    :lol:
    Oh wow. There are some dumbarses on here tonight.

    Your piles acting up tonight?
    I don't do smileys.

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  • Dobbs
    Dobbs Posts: 186
    Are you telling us what we should be thinking?

    I am telling you , you f***ing c**kstand.
    Sheeps, apologies. I realise you were being ironic, no offense.
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,665
    Oooh, tough guy comes out of the woodwork! :lol:
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,665
    yeehaamcgee wrote:
    Surrey? Oh NOW I understand why you need a big tough 150mm bike :roll:
    You'd be first in the queue for the Apollo Shockwave under my regime. AND I'd make you pump the tyres yourself.

    OK, maybe 150mm is a bit overkill, but you get my point. Right tool for the job.

    And oh, that Shockwave? I cold have it running tubeless with little more than a rubber band and a few ground up Duck Leafs. ;)

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