crashing/not-winning/the energy it takes to ride/the aches after the days ride/people giving me shit for riding/bikes being expensive/people giving me shit for being shit/not nailing a trick/not being smooth/getting showed up by the young'uns.
All for that small glimpse of "zen". That's how good it is
Having little kids stand on top of your jumps, then on accident have their foot start sliding down the side and ruin the nice shape of the lip/landing. After than they usually pretend nothing they did was bad and get mad when you scold them for it. Seriously, I build them, you degrade them and don't work at all. Soo lame.
Next would be riders complaining about the size of the jumps, yet once they learn how to jump them properly the size is fine, and then start complaining when you want to build them bigger.
Last would be kids who ask you how long the gap is for each big jump. They put out a number than is 3 or more feet bigger than it is, tell all their friends and nickname the jump after their guessed distance. Example: the 15 footer. After I build jumps I don't bring down a tape measurer just so I can tell everyone how big it is. I don't care about the size, I just love to jump them.
Having little kids stand on top of your jumps, then on accident have their foot start sliding down the side and ruin the nice shape of the lip/landing. After than they usually pretend nothing they did was bad and get mad when you scold them for it. Seriously, I build them, you degrade them and don't work at all. Soo lame.
Next would be riders complaining about the size of the jumps, yet once they learn how to jump them properly the size is fine, and then start complaining when you want to build them bigger.
Last would be kids who ask you how long the gap is for each big jump. They put out a number than is 3 or more feet bigger than it is, tell all their friends and nickname the jump after their guessed distance. Example: the 15 footer. After I build jumps I don't bring down a tape measurer just so I can tell everyone how big it is. I don't care about the size, I just love to jump them.
that sound good not. no-one rides in my home country
This doesnt bum me out it just makes me angry. When a little kid cuts between trails and cuts you off, and you nearly take him out, and then his dad bitches at you like its your fault.