Bigjoefupa

I personally believe people are too extreme in the world in general. If you ride trail and also you're on the road; there's nothing wrong with having either 3 cogs or one 1. I have a single ring 36T with a 9 sp cassette (that's right, NINE sp) and i ride on the road pretty darn good with my friends who have 3 x 10 spd setups. You're not constantly at an all out sprint, that it takes my life to keep up with them. Furthermore it makes you way fitter than the others cause they use the largest cog and pedal pretty lazily. Furthermore on trails there's no difference because they can't use the largest cog on the trails and uphills it's still not a problem since my tallest gear STILL allows me to pedal easily uphill. If riding was meant to be a lazy sport, we'd be playing chess or checkers. What you all buy into here in simply consumerism. Outside of downhill specific riding where you're an avid racer; why is there a need to segregate all of the riding styles? Maybe for companies to make more money out of pushing specific riding group apparel an equipment at you?! I see it on here regularly. Example: If you don't have a particular crankset your downhill bike it's considered shit (yea i read everyone's comments on threads). It obviously has good parts, just not what the parts the masses considered "golden" and exclusive.....TOTALLY absurd!!! Fitting in with the crowd and consumerism traps a lot of you out there. Ride what you have, actually enjoy riding and most of all get FIT! Riding wasn't meant to be a walk in a park

AND it looks great; can't forget that

LMAO@ the guy screaming while riding from the dog. That surely made his time a bit faster in that stage lol. Damn big looking dog tho