jeunefred

You guys should check my buy & sell add if you want an expensive seat hehe

Snyda, in a blunt and direct way you are correct. You can't force a sport to a kid, you can only let them choose what they want and try to support them in those choices. My parents weren't into biking at all. In fact they were musicians. They showed me a guitar I tried it, didn't like it and it was the end of it. I was inspired to bike at the age of 8. It was my brother who inspired me. He stopped a few years later but I just kept going. My first real bike was a vagabon victor, The kind of bike you buy at a grocery store. I had never been happier and it was the beginning of something. I took that bike to places is was clearly not meant to be. Crashed real hard, got back up and counted the days before I was slightly okay enough to start riding again. By 14 I had worked a whole summer just to buy my first more appropriate bike. I bought a CCM supra for $500. I was the happiest kid in town! I felt like I was riding in pro level and that just pushed my motivation even more (even though I never raced). On my graduation week, my parents bought me a kona caldera and I had this bike until I was 21, did a few races, was riding with a local club, I was having a great time! Now I do DH, XC and road, I'm still as passionate as I was when I was 8, I ride hard daily and I couldn't imagine stopping. Point is, in the end, you don't need the best bike, the best trails or constant support, you simply either love it or not. If you took my bikes away and gave me back my first vagabon victor, I would still ride. I enjoy going downhill, uphill, going fast, getting muddy, riding against the wind, in the winter, rain... doesn't matter. Now if you give me a basketball, good luck getting me to play more than 2 hrs without hating my life!

Definitely a nice new addition to the cycling sport. I still don't quite get why they would choose to call it Enduro, if all cycling sports has some endurance but this one in particular I wouldn't say endurance is it's primary factor. When I think of endurance I think of something with a crazy amount of km's where a immense portion of the discipline is in energy management. I can see why the sport comes mixed up with events calling themself enduro that consist of long circuit (like 24hr ride, century etc...) On another note, I think an exciting new sport could be a cycling only triathlon, DH, XC and Road in one race. (Obviously 3 types of bikes would be needed but most serious cyclist will usually have more than a single discipline bike)... If this type of event already exist, please care to share I'd be very interested to find out more

FWD to 2:03

What bike is that?

10K is a lot? Try getting into top of the line road, trial & TT bikes lol

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