paulhaysom

Every ride with Mike is exactly as depicted. He will yell at you constantly and throw logs into your wheels at many points on the trail.

@hotpotato: I did see it coming that my "I'm Out" video would be seen by people that had never seen a video haha. I'm sure you can relate as a creator! Look here's the main thing, and I reply to you as someone who can understand a lot of things here. Every person has a different experience of everything. If you look down this page it's a lot of "Well I don't do this....." and "How can he generalise everything like that, that's not what happens to me..." - yeah I'm sure it isn't, how can I possibly know what your (general your) experience of riding is and how you choose to do it? I'm not talking to you personally! This is what happened for me with mountain biking, I live in a VERY different part of the world and am around people who are very skilled at riding (pretty much) wherever I rode. I am aware that it's MY perceptions of what's happening and how it makes ME feel.... it's not the on purpose actions of other people, because they are enjoying riding the way THEY want to. For me, I got very exhausted with the constant trying to go as fast as possible and ride as difficult a trail as possible. I would even set out my expectations of a ride at the beginning with who I was with so there were no surprises - "Today I would just like to hang out and chat as we go up the climba and then chill as we go down a fun trail." And in the end, I wasn't getting what I was looking for so I had to cut it. Now I've seen people who literally just go riding to..... enjoy time out biking. That's how bikes can be a part of my life from now on, so I'm going to set those boundaries for myself. Hope everyone gets to enjoy riding the way they want to, and hopefully I can find what that looks like for me.

@Ironchefjon: haha so I had 0 idea of what the pineapple “lifestyle” was before the tattoo. We always talked about getting matching ones, he had suggested a pineapple because it’s a sign of friendship.

@Tim-bikes-a-lot: I am 5’ 10 with a pretty 0’d out ape index. Pretty sure I’m regularly portioned torso vs legs…. Unlike Mike Levy’s dancers pegs.

Very privileged to call Mike and Brian colleagues at one point, thanks for having me on! As this is a rare opportunity, and I'm very much an open book, I'll answer any questions people might have in replies to this comment..... of course there might be no replies at all haha.

@skiandmtbdirtbag: I feel like this is the same thing as "uhhh when is international Men's day exactly?!?!" @henryquinney: well articulated sir, looking forward to these issues tackled more on the site