? I was talking to a mate(non-rider) And he asked why do you ride and i said i just never thought about not riding.
Why do you Ride?
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Mostly because it gets me money for nothin' and the chicks for free.
I want my MTV.
I ride cause it's better than not riding. If I had more dough, I'd MX too...It's about the rush for me.
Because if I don't, the bike will just sit there.
It gets me away from stupid people for just a few hours.
It's fun to jump off stuff and exploring new stuff is cool (xc/fr). DH racing is fun too.
To try to maintain what little sanity I still have after February 4, 2003.
Because I like going fast
Because I like going slow, uphill, and suffering.
Because I like cleaning out flesh wounds.
Because poison oak rashes are sexy
Because of that sound your tires make right before they break traction on hardpacked clay.
Because smoking dope indoors gets old after a while!
And....because some Sierra Club, bunny hugging dipsh*t doesn't want me to.
Because I like going slow, uphill, and suffering.
Because I like cleaning out flesh wounds.
Because poison oak rashes are sexy
Because of that sound your tires make right before they break traction on hardpacked clay.
Because smoking dope indoors gets old after a while!
And....because some Sierra Club, bunny hugging dipsh*t doesn't want me to.
I ride to live and live to ride...until the wife yells at me.
what happened on feb 4 2003
so sorry man i just relised why
I like riding. I guess that's probably why I do it.
Because anything less would be uncivilized.
Seriously, I think I ride because I can't fly.
don't you live in the woods already?
Y'know, thats how the Unibomber got his start too, he was in Crested Butte with Gary Fisher and the rest of them in the late 1970s;
don't you live in the woods already?
Nah, not the woods. Just a less than densely populated area.
Because...
It's fun.
It makes me feel free.
It kills the stress, if only for a few hours or minutes.
It brings me together around old friends.
It's made me new friends as well.
It makes me push myself.
It makes me learn (mechanically, physically, mentally).
It gives me an excuse to tinker in the garage with beer, metal (music/bike) and combustibles all at the same time!
It's fun.
It makes me feel free.
It kills the stress, if only for a few hours or minutes.
It brings me together around old friends.
It's made me new friends as well.
It makes me push myself.
It makes me learn (mechanically, physically, mentally).
It gives me an excuse to tinker in the garage with beer, metal (music/bike) and combustibles all at the same time!
Actually, the Unibomber started by us - went to RPI in Troy and his brother who turned him in still lives in Albany- doing the anti-death penalty speech circuit.don't you live in the woods already?
let me be the latest person to say 'whoops!'
Movement, acceleration, impact, exploration, wildlife, loony friends...
There are these moments I have when riding where if feel like Im flying an F-18 through a canyon. It's those moments.
"Why do I ride?"
This is the question I'm usually asking myself at about 3:30am during a 24 hour race.
This is the question I'm usually asking myself at about 3:30am during a 24 hour race.
You know that feeling you get when you take a corner too fast,
and you feel your rear tire sliding out, yet you hold onto it and ride it out.
That feeling, yeah, that is why I ride.
and you feel your rear tire sliding out, yet you hold onto it and ride it out.
That feeling, yeah, that is why I ride.
Because I love to tell people to feel my thighs!
edit: Okay, its when you get in the groove and everything just flows. Through the rocks, up the steeps and around the corners. When you're ridding at the edge of traction and you know thats the only thing holding you back. When you make a technical climb and aren't hearing blood pounding in your ears.
edit: Okay, its when you get in the groove and everything just flows. Through the rocks, up the steeps and around the corners. When you're ridding at the edge of traction and you know thats the only thing holding you back. When you make a technical climb and aren't hearing blood pounding in your ears.
That's a pretty good reason actually.
I have no idea why I ride and I'm lazy so I'm just going to bum off your reason.
The Kessel Run!
Because there are bicycles.
Foerever in search of the zen-like experience...D
Yeah dat, but then it grays up and you finally finish yr laps and lurch in for brekkers and you sort of forget the pain and desperation...
I ride so I don't have to talk to anyone.
I ride for the rush. When you lean into a turn, going 35, shoulder to shoulder with 30 other people, hearing people crash behind you, it becomes an addiction.
I love becoming better then what I was. I use to do a ride every saturday and sunday morning and there was a guy on a yellow gt who use to yell at me all the time. "Your not moving fast enough.' 'Your not staying close enough to the guy ahead of you' or I wasn't keeping the pace he wanted; crap like that. We use to come to the water stop 40 miles out and he would just ignore me and give me crappy looks. Then the end of the summer rolled around and I remember times when I would be sitting on my toptube after a 2 or 3 minute break, watching him roll in with sweat dripping down his face...and I would laugh
I love becoming better then what I was. I use to do a ride every saturday and sunday morning and there was a guy on a yellow gt who use to yell at me all the time. "Your not moving fast enough.' 'Your not staying close enough to the guy ahead of you' or I wasn't keeping the pace he wanted; crap like that. We use to come to the water stop 40 miles out and he would just ignore me and give me crappy looks. Then the end of the summer rolled around and I remember times when I would be sitting on my toptube after a 2 or 3 minute break, watching him roll in with sweat dripping down his face...and I would laugh
I ride because work is too far to walk to.
I ride cuz it's Rad.
what else would i do? and the fact that i learn something new everytime i get on my bike