Originally Posted by
TacomaSailor
Some days I like trials like technical riding, some days fast flowing single track, some days I like to put in miles on scenic fireroads. And, a lot of days I ride my road bike and pretend I don't know those freaks on those weird bikes with funny front ends and bobbing back ends.
There you go.
To say that riding fire roads isn't mountain biking is really silly: does that mean that a guy doing a thousand miles on the Great Divide Mountain Bike Route isn't a "real" mountain biker? After all, the vast majority of the GDMBR is gravel roads. One of my great dreams (as yet unrealized) is to ride from Cape Town to Durban in South Africa, on dirt. That's not "real" mountain biking? Is everybody sure about that?
If anybody feels compelled to lecture me on what is "real" mountain biking and what isn't, I will cheerfully ignore them and go for a ride. Wherever I feel like riding. That's real mountain biking.