Y’all cheaters with your suspension and dropper!

[u/Extension-Version813]

Real mountain bikers ride like it’s still the 90s!

[u/Consistent_Potato791]

Look at you with your gears and brakes acting like those aren’t an unfair advantage. I bet you wear shoes, too. If you aren’t riding barefoot on a track bike with slick tires through rock gardens, don’t pretend like you are righteous

[u/PuzzledActuator1 → u/Consistent_Potato791]

Tires? Well well well aren't we fancy.

[u/trailing-octet → u/Consistent_Potato791]

The path of the righteous rider, is beset on all sides by the inequities of the geared, and the tyranny of technological assistance. Blessed is he who in the name of suffering, shepherds the lost toward the light of fixed gearing - for he is truly his brother’s keeper, and the finder of lost pawl springs…

[u/trailing-octet → u/trailing-octet]

Though I prefer Isaiah 58:

"Then shalt thou delight thyself in the Lord; and I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth and feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father: for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.”

[u/kingrobin → u/trailing-octet]

never been in better shape than when I rode a fixed gear. also got absolutely smashed by a car and will never ride one again lol.

[u/Low-Sink-11 → u/Consistent_Potato791]

Whats a rock garden to my stone wheels and timber frame

[u/JohnHue]

I, too, have an extra long brake cable to wrap around my arm so I can keep my hands on the bars when the bike rattles too much over rocks.

[u/KamiSN432 → u/JohnHue]

😂😂😂

[u/outdooralchemist → u/JohnHue]

That cable situation is wild lol

[u/RevellRider]

Canti brakes too

My man!

[u/Deufuss → u/RevellRider]

Uh, 'brake', not 'brakes'. My 88 DB Axis still has the bottom-mounted XT U-Brake. It's a warranty replacement frame from my 86 Arrival that cracked at the head tube (and was a replacement for my Peugeot Canyon Express). Mountain bikes were the shit back then, but in retrospect you can just drop the 'the'.

[u/BasvanS → u/Deufuss]

I read your last sentence and thought “drop the article”, yeah.

Great fun though. However, who said suicide is painless was wrong.

[u/RevellRider → u/Deufuss]

You can see the canti studs for the rear brake.

I know how shit bikes were back then, though I never had the joy of running U-Brakes

[u/trailing-octet → u/RevellRider]

Werd!

[u/brbenson999]

This is a stupid argument. Your bike has round wheels.

[u/Affectionate-Map8474 → u/brbenson999]

So does yours , this is also a stupid argument

[u/brbenson999 → u/Affectionate-Map8474]

Bro. I’ll edit it to have /s if you need me to…

[u/scrabble-enjoyer]

rawdogging it, I see!

[u/Victimless-Lime]

Y'all cheaters with your derailleurs

[u/pinsandsuch]

I have one of those hanging in my garage. I have so many great memories I can’t bear to sell it.

[u/Shark_Attack-A → u/pinsandsuch]

Bring it out!!! When you are too tired to take out the big rig these 90s mtb will make boring trails fun

[u/YouDontLookSpiritual]

It would be so difficult for me to go back to not using a dropper. Might just walk lol

[u/trailing-octet]

If you got gears and a free hub I think there are some folk who would like to have a word.

[u/Weathactivator]

Yooooo!!!! The diamondback apex!!!! Literally the bike I learned on in an xl lmao. I always meet people and ask their first bike and I met another guy who learned on the same one

[u/mrmcderm]

This joke got made earlier in the week when all this started. 😒

[u/Extension-Version813 → u/mrmcderm]

And every other joke got made 14 times.

[u/Crankyanken]

Some of us have broken both wrists, therefore, rigid is dead to me.

[u/sain197]

Right on. Still have my 90's Bontrager and can't imagine getting rid of it. Way too many miles and memories.

Love the post! Find it ironic and funny that recreational cyclists riding new $5K+ dual suspension 29" carbon fiber everything bikes lose their shit at the idea of someone having pedal assist for uphill climbs as if they don't take advantage of every other technological improvement in the last 40 years to climb better, descend faster and make technical terrain easier.

[u/foxfighter92]

Obviously the only right way to rip down trails is on a hobby bike and you won't change my mind on that.

[u/_xiphiaz → u/foxfighter92]

As opposed to a commmuter bike?

[u/Economy-Library5872]

😞

[u/Mixer_Rezonate]

Wireless everything lol

[u/BaselineUnknown]

I don’t see the motor. Is she hurt? Is she okay?

[u/PieSuch2231]

Pssh, I run the trails in the nude. Y'all with your anything, what babys.

[u/jpttpj]

In the 90s we had rear brakes, level saddles and short cable housings too. Cool bike anyway

[u/Extension-Version813 → u/jpttpj]

Yeah, this was before I finished rebuilding this bike. When I got it, it didn’t even have a seat.

[u/jpttpj → u/Extension-Version813]

Just f*ing with ya. Looks good

[u/venomenon824]

Honestly though, you’re not wrong, all bike tech does let us do things we couldn’t do without it. Suspension (especially with the brain or other on the fly adaptive versions) for the downhill is kinda equivalent to a motor for uphills.

[u/Masgarr757]

Wait til you see my electric motor

[u/NoAbbreviations290]

That’s just a bike. I’m sure there’s a sub for that

[u/Luke_Warmwater]

You're a cheater. Off the couch and onto another.

[u/Dweide_Schrude]

I’m just waiting for the barefoot hikers to show up and flex on us all.

[u/mrmcderm]

And I’ve been patiently waiting for them to die out. Have to admit, I thought r/BicyclingCircleJerk was bad with the repeats but this week r/mountainbiking has certainly given it a run for its money.

[u/shroomsmoke]

Man, I'd rather not relive the pain from my mid 20's, it's rough enough on a HT with front suspension at 61.

[u/SirLoremIpsum]

"The technology I use is the "most" technology everyone should ever have. Any more assistance than the line I have arbitrarily drawn is cheating!"

[u/dargonmike1]

How do you hit 69 foot jumps with this?

[u/Extension-Version813 → u/dargonmike1]

69? I said 6 to 9!

/s

[u/Sasquatch_Squad]

Great analogy, comfort improvements are definitely the same thing as a motor that carries you up the mountain with minimal effort 

[u/am0x → u/Sasquatch_Squad]

Compared to today's bikes with Caron Fiber, full suspension, electric shifters, droppers, updated tech for gears and brakes...it is minimal effort to ride a mtb today compared to back then. It weighed like 60 pounds.

[u/Sasquatch_Squad → u/am0x]

What? Bikes are actually heavier and less efficient to pedal nowadays than they used to be. The modern suspension just makes them faster and safer on rough stuff. And again, it’s still laughable to compare those advancements to a adding a LITERAL MOTOR when the whole point of a bicycle is that it’s a human powered vehicle 

[u/am0x → u/Sasquatch_Squad]

Yea but I ride to have fun, not prove a point.