Globalti
Legendary Member
Singletrack mountain bike magazine makes this uncomfortable point in its September issue:
"We spend a lot of money on shiny kit instead of practicing getting better.
We wear odd-looking clothing that other people rightly ridicule.
We abandon our other halves - like sport-induced widows - from dawn until dusk while we do our riding.
We're always late home after staying a bit too long in the bar afterwards.
We go to manufactured places dedicated to our pastime.
We squeeze in a quick one during the week after work.
We're mostly men.
We're mostly white.
We're mostly middle-class.
We're mostly midle-aged.
Mountain biking is golf."
Is this true for all cyclists or just MTBers?
Just a journalist's easy cliché?
Not valid to compare cyclists with golfers?
Absolutley spot-on?
"We spend a lot of money on shiny kit instead of practicing getting better.
We wear odd-looking clothing that other people rightly ridicule.
We abandon our other halves - like sport-induced widows - from dawn until dusk while we do our riding.
We're always late home after staying a bit too long in the bar afterwards.
We go to manufactured places dedicated to our pastime.
We squeeze in a quick one during the week after work.
We're mostly men.
We're mostly white.
We're mostly middle-class.
We're mostly midle-aged.
Mountain biking is golf."
Is this true for all cyclists or just MTBers?
Just a journalist's easy cliché?
Not valid to compare cyclists with golfers?
Absolutley spot-on?