Out riding in my local woods this afternoon and popped into the unofficial 'track/jumps' that are there. Suprisingly there are two young kids (14-16?) with spades doing trail maintenance. It was great to see. I stopped and had a chat with them. They were on bikes they'd bought second hand and upgraded with better second hand parts. They both mentioned the price of entry into the sport being a barrier to their friends getting into riding.
The future is bright.
Little do they know the financially draining addiction they have just got hooked on...
The real test is will they keep building trails when they find out what boobs feel like?
Hopefully they're doing good, my local trails, you get worried if teens come up with a shovel, it usually means some weird jump is about to be added to a trail 🤣
Same up my local, every winter all you can hear is the slaps of shovels echoing around the woods whilst they're all building new trails and doing maintenance. Always usually in little groups of 3-5 spread out around the woods, I've seen kids as young as 13 and lads as old as 30 building up there.
Theres been a massive mtb revival around here, I rode to top of the woods where the popular jump line is in summer one day and it was absolutely packed from kids to dads to uncles to mates and wives etc must have been 65+ bikes up there which blew my mind as it's only a 100ha wood.
Little do they know the financially draining addiction they have just
got hookedhooked their parents on……<br /><br />FIFY...
The real test is will they keep building trails when they find out what boobs feel like?
Haven't most 14-16yr olds had a good ol' grope these days already? Times have changed.
Mind you, if they are weirdo's that like riding bikes in the woods, maybe not 😉
it usually means some weird jump is about to be added to a trail
😀 Yeah seen jumps pointing at trees, abrupt lips with no scoop (bucky as ****), jump sets squashed too close together and gaps with next to no run-ins or run-outs. Obviously there's never any thought to grade a slope in the trail so the water follows the contours of the land, no just a hole (before a lip) or a carved-out trench/rut that fills up like a pond!