JamesGoldfield

To be honest I would rather mountian biking stay as it's own niche community. Granted I might be a little biased because I am super lucky to live in Squamish where trail rights are easy to come by as the community is already invested in the bike scene. The reason I want MTBf to stay a niche community is because I feel like more people will try the sport without understanding it if it is marketed to a large range of people. Whistler altready gets complaints about A-line being "choppy" and "not flowy" from people that don't understand the sport and take their hardtails with 2" wide bars from 1992 down A-line. I feel like if we try to expand mtb into a more mainstream sport we will end up with more of these people and it will actually end up being worse for the trails. I fear that with more people the quality of riders will go down and more and more people will start to complain that your favourite trail is "too hard" and that it needs to be toned down. We already see it now, and I fear we will just end up seeing it more and more if MTB expands too much. I guess what I am trying to say is quality of riders>quantity of riders