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Stomping Grounds:
I frolic on my mtb and in the snow. -
Bio:
Why I Ride
I got my first mountain bike when I was about 13, I'd grown a bit tired of riding my horses and besides a bike was
cheaper! (oh if only I knew what I know (spent) now). It was a cool dragstar with high handle bars, I wore
jimboots and tshirts with rainbows on it. Wish I still had it all now.
I was hooked on bikes early. I would just ride you know doing whatever - long rides, short rides, jumping, cruising
up and down our short road time and time again. That's where bike skills come from, hours of riding every day
after school and then all weekend.
I rode like that all through school and then gave it up when I left home. When I went came to Sydney, my first
crew that I meet were mtbikers, and they were into it. So I blew a loan on a Cannondale. Then I did a downhill
run at Thredbo, and got hooked on downhill racing.
Nothing comes close to the adrenalin of racing into the smallest bottle neck in the world, through the
bombhole, round the corner, prejumping into the next bomb-hole before being launched out of that, trying to
stay low for the tight fast right into treasure and the drop, missing the root half way down, flying along the flat bit
in the bottom and launching up and out onto the island - although I didn't do this exactly as fluid as this sounds -
I dreamt about it alot.
So, in answer to the question, I ride because it is what I am good at and my greatest passion. If I'm stressed,
being on my bike will chill me out. If I'm happy my riding is better. I think that if you are lucky enough to discover
what you are good at you should do it where and whenever you can.
My bike will not disappoint me or let me down because I expect nothing of it - it is down to me to ride it. My bike
does not like me or pretend to be my friend because of who I am and what I do, it's just a bike. I ride because
that is me. I am a bike rider, my friends all ride bikes 'cos I ride my bike with them. I'm not going to set the world
on fire with my riding, I'm good but not great, but I have nothing to prove to anyone only myself 'cos that is who
I ride for, me.
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