Comments on: Decision

By: Zed

Zed — Mon, 10 Apr 2006 16:35:22 +0000

Greg LeMond said that if mt biking had been popular when he was 20, he’d have never won the Tour de France.
BTW, how much you wanna bet that the George Bush comment came from Tom Stormcrowe?

By: Unknown

Unknown — Thu, 06 Apr 2006 13:05:34 +0000

I’d choose mountain biking, too. There’s just more variety, plain and simple. Plus, you get to play in the dirt.
Thanks for entertaining me with your blog.

P.S. If people don’t claim their prizes, you can send them to me. :-) (The prizes, not the people).

By: Jill

Jill — Thu, 06 Apr 2006 06:18:49 +0000

If I could ride logs with the style and grace you guys have, I would never leave my MTB behind.

By: Scott

Scott — Thu, 06 Apr 2006 05:12:23 +0000

I ride both as well, but am a confirmed Roadie. There is just something about the pure speed of the road bike that is more attractive to me. But a good singletrack on the MTB can be nice too. The down side of MTBing for me is the whole crashing thing. I think I am around a 50% kill ratio on that lately. Some sort of blood or bruising involved. Maybe I should try to develop some skills. But I don’t have that with road riding. Wet roads, gravel, whatever. I can handle it on the road. But put me on a dirt path with roots sticking up and trees on both sides and I’ll find a way to AOTK or just fall over on my side.

Did that clear it all up? Cuz I’m just as confused as before.

By: Teresa

Teresa — Thu, 06 Apr 2006 01:03:38 +0000

Didn’t the leader of the free world run his bicycle into a Scottish policeman? I seem to remember something like that happening; talk about abuse!

By: bradley

bradley — Thu, 06 Apr 2006 00:31:12 +0000

I read just a few of the comments, so I don’t know where the others, ‘cept POTUS that is, stand. Me, I prefer the road. Mountain biking, as much as I enjoy it, and at least where I end up riding most of the time, is too much like interval training, frying my brain, heart and lungs on horrific climbs. At least when I do this on the road, I get to recover while the blood pounds in my skull. Might not be a "yippee!" moment, but it’s sure nice to know I’m not going to fall over dead.

By: Tom Stormcrowe

Tom Stormcrowe — Wed, 05 Apr 2006 20:31:34 +0000

I just gotta get this off my chest! I personally am very happy that Mr Maviva is a roadie and not so much into mountainbiking! I mean, I can only stand so much abuse, first it’s the Democrats, and then I get my butt whupped out on a DC trail……MY ego just couldn’t handle it!

By: Tom Stormcrowe

Tom Stormcrowe — Wed, 05 Apr 2006 20:28:43 +0000

Kenny, speaking as the guy who tracks Al’s mileage and stats for him, I gotta say, this! Al is one of the most improved riders I’ve EVER had the honor of sorta meeting! He and BigMike are a couple of serious road dogs of the 1st magnitude!

By: Kenny

Kenny — Wed, 05 Apr 2006 15:25:32 +0000

Al, I loved your comment. I feel like that what you are saying is that you are in love with racing, not necessarily road riding. Racing on a MTN bike is as much a challenge or more so than racing on the road. Having done both, I can say that, for me MTB racing is much more of a personal challenge, with an end result that is much higher or lower than racing on the road. In any given mountain bike race the fittest person wins the race… Not the guy with the best team or the best tactics. And you don’t have to stare at the back of some guys wheel for hours on end.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Wed, 05 Apr 2006 14:54:51 +0000

Dear Swaggering Sultan of Steatosis,

I’ve pondered the difference between mtb and road biking for some time now. If I get passed on the trail, it doesn’t bother me because both the other rider and I are in a struggle with a common foe, the trail.

When I get passed on the the road, it just pisses me off.

Therein lies a profound difference, but I’m too lazy to develop it.