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Or their new hardtail, the Canyon Hard, and it’s equivalent electric model.

Fist tab… First ATB.. lol

It’s all riding after all! Now I’m 43 and have had all types of bikes since my fist tab aged 8. Ironically now I’ve just got a very nice gravel bike, that does 90% of what I need. I bought it because the bikes that have got the most use in the past have been cx bikes!

The ironic thing in all of this is that bike companies are part of the better overall solution, which is basically amongst other things cycling and walking instead of driving, yet they are still not addressing the elephant in the room which is that we all need to reduce, reduce, reduce. Just stop consuming so much stuff..! Food, water, products you don't need, the list is endless! No bike company, especially the big ones like Specialized and Trek, are ever going to turn around and say "..yeah our plan is to make less bikes, make them out of mainly re-cycled materials and also make them easy to re-cycle once they're at the end of their life. We're also only going to release new models when there are genuine innovations that make the model truely a better bike, not just half a degree off the head angle. Then as we are spending less on r&d for superficial small improvements, and less spending on marketing, because we shouldn't be encouraging you to buy our bikes when you don't really need one, we can then carry this saving across to sell our bikes to you for less money. This should hopefully get more people cycling rather than driving as more people can afford our bikes. We may then still make an ok amount of money as more people will be buying them, and anyway, profit isn't the most important thing in the world is it anymore, the environment is..." They won't say that, will they.