If they want to make new trails with bumps and jumps galore be my guest, but you better believe I'm going to get grumpy when you take my sweet, chunky tech and blow it to pieces.Did a big ride yesterday. it felt great. but my local trails are definitely getting IMBA-fied. What's disappointing is that my buddies are lapping it up. I want old-school. It doesn't have to be mega-tech-gnar all the time, just more than berm-table-berm-hip-berm-berm-table-table-hip-berm. If I'm going to climb for 2 hours over the course of a day, a little variety would be nice... 10 minute downhills get repetitive after a while.
for anyone interested I rode Family Jewel to Growler, then Boneshaker, then Dream:
Family Jewel and the upper half of Boneshaker are the only natural stuff in there...
I mean, don't get me wrong, it was still an awesome day, riding with some buddies and enjoying a beer from a deck afterwards...
now I'm in the cube farm.