Originally Posted by
Mumonkan
you can get away with a hell of a lot on a cross bike, any knobs help tremendously. i rode my local singletrack for a year on a straight up road bike with slick 28s.
"character building"
"skills training"
these are terms i used to explain what i was doing to people on mtbs, lol.
Haha, my buddy would take his cross bike out with us before he got his mtb. Everyone on the mountain was like, "what the f' are you doing?!?!"
Guy on the left with the All City Macho Man...he used to be big into bmx when he was younger. He rode that thing through some pretty gnarly singletrack, some stuff that I even opted to walk on my full suspension at the time.