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This was dumb. If the name change was as simple as: “We find the name O-Zone goes better with the trail and how it runs than the original did, which didn’t quite fit well.” Then I would just been like: “okay.” But the problem is it was about about being inclusive to women. Now I love women participating in ANY of the two wheeled sports of the world that are extreme like mountain biking and motocross, but it’s dumb stuff like this that makes me scratch my head. Seriously? We can’t consider a girl mountain biker to be “One of the Bros?” What if they’re trans-gender and identify as a man? Or vice versa. Why can’t “Bro” be used in this sense as “Someone who is cool and/or part of the group.” I’m not saying that the change wasn’t warranted, but I would have made it more about how it sounds better than how it was offensive to women who would ride there. It just feels like the change was more about appealing to a certain crowd of people than to have a better and cooler sounding name. Believe me, I thought the original name was alright, but honestly O-Zone does sound better, and it references my favorite song by Ace Frehley (kind of.) But the name just feels lessened by reason it was changed at all and that honestly upsets me. I’m not begging for it to be changed back, far from it, I just wish the reason that was given for the change didn’t make it seem so damn forced.

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