[Noah930]

Maybe 20 years ago I remember reading an issue of Bike magazine. It was the "dirt bag biker" issue. There was an article about guys (it's always a guy, isn't it?) with bikes that cost more than their cars. But there was also an article about a guy who rode went for a ride with some buddies up some trail in NorCal. At the top, they rested, took in the view, and congratulated each other on their hardcore off trail mountain bikes, and how there was no way they could have done the same ride without them. At which point they spotted some longhaired dude, in jeans, with no t-shirt (it was tucked into a back pocket), riding a kids Schwinn Stingray with tassels and spokie dokies up the same trail. Jean dude got to the top, smiled and said hi, and then turned around and tore back down the trail, bunny hopping everything in sight the whole way down. Doesn't matter what you're riding, as long as you're out there riding.