Ok let's hear your favorite "Old Guys Rule" story.
I'm going to tell two: There was that time when my dad schooled me. I'd been racing dirt bikes and working out and was in pretty good shape and the old man took me on a mtb ride. We're climbing the first hill and I'm thinking to myself, "you're doing pretty good, keeping up with the mountain biker dad". Then it dawns on me, "He's 65 years old!" D'oh, I shoulda been leaving him in the dust and was just hanging on.
This past weekend I was at Brianhead with the family and we bought lift passes for the resort. On the way up I see a bunch of guys slowly picking their way down a particularly gnarly, steep, rocky section on what looked like a flagged section for the next days DH race. I love steep techie trails so when I got off the lift I decided to head down the marked race course. When I got to that section there was still a pretty good contingent of folks in full armor and dual crown DH bikes walking and scoping out this section. I calmly roll into it taking a gnarlier inside line to avoid running over anyone and cleaned it on my 130mm travel trail bike.... commenting to the last guy, "that section is legit", to which he says, "Uh, yeah."
Go. Your turn.
I'm going to tell two: There was that time when my dad schooled me. I'd been racing dirt bikes and working out and was in pretty good shape and the old man took me on a mtb ride. We're climbing the first hill and I'm thinking to myself, "you're doing pretty good, keeping up with the mountain biker dad". Then it dawns on me, "He's 65 years old!" D'oh, I shoulda been leaving him in the dust and was just hanging on.
This past weekend I was at Brianhead with the family and we bought lift passes for the resort. On the way up I see a bunch of guys slowly picking their way down a particularly gnarly, steep, rocky section on what looked like a flagged section for the next days DH race. I love steep techie trails so when I got off the lift I decided to head down the marked race course. When I got to that section there was still a pretty good contingent of folks in full armor and dual crown DH bikes walking and scoping out this section. I calmly roll into it taking a gnarlier inside line to avoid running over anyone and cleaned it on my 130mm travel trail bike.... commenting to the last guy, "that section is legit", to which he says, "Uh, yeah."
Go. Your turn.