Joplin

DangerDirtyD said:
Thanks man! I appreciate the camaraderie. Just know I’m not responsible for your safety or welfare or enjoyment or navigation or tire/suspension PSI or frame HTA/STA, or brake lever angle relative to a horizontal plane, or what you had for breakfast or will have for dinner, etc.

This doesn't mean I will abandon you off the side of a cliff. Nor does it mean I won’t wrap your limbs in tourniquets or give you mouth-to-mouth if necessary, but I won’t bear liability as to the effectiveness of my resuscitation attempts, however long their duration.:whistling:

The same goes for all’yallz on any ride I “host,” and I expect the same treatment from youz. :)

edit: All riders of intermediate [or better] levels are welcome to participate in accordance with the conditions set forth above, but if you shuttle this ride, you might get ridiculed, right @Faust29 and @mtnbikej ...?

edit#2: especially if you keel over and cramp! I will literally take photos of you, including close-ups of your grimacing face(s) and bent-over behinds, and post them on this forum. :giggle:
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LOLL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Proper!!!!!!!!!!?!!

:notworthy::devilish::)
 
herzalot said:
Oh come now - we can be ridiculed together!

No wonder there's only ten people who post on IMTB! If you can't do or don't commit to big rides, you get to be the butt of everyone else's superiority!
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@burt and @Sidewalk bailed because they were overwhelmed.

Joplin is not a big ride, but it will take me all day to do it because...I suck and ride 9-mile piece of Sh!t loops if I’m lucky.

Save the mediocrity for the socialists.

I’m a troll because I don’t get to ride like I used to and I’m frustrated.

chicken nuggets!
 
The threats of ridicule were seemingly not taken as the joke they were intended. (“troll”)

Dio is not that kind of guy. He’s the kind of guy that will joke about being that kind of guy. That’s the joke. :geek:

Brett, you and Chris should meet em. Nobody actually cares how you pedaled up there. Cheers... :)
 
mike said:
The threats of ridicule were seemingly not taken as the joke they were intended. (“troll”)

Dio is not that kind of guy. He’s the kind of guy that will joke about being that kind of guy. That’s the joke. :geek:

Brett, you and Chris should meet em. Nobody actually cares how you pedaled up there. Cheers... :)
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This ^^^^^^

Everything is out of jest.

I'll bow out....you all can ride this however y'all want to.
 
For all my smack talk, I really should train more for this ride, lest I bonk or look like an ass HABing up Harding. Oh well...ya’ll come out and return the favor if you dare.

Thanks @mike for your support. I love you Froind.

Herzie, you are faster than me (at Aliso :sneaky:) (...and probably any bike park) so don’t fret. A stylish and fast DHer is what’s up. I just wanted to try being one of the cool kids who tease the lousy uphillers. Seeing as I am a lousy uphiller, I assumed you’d appreciate the irony. Let me be clear, climbing sucks. ...and I suspect the pleasure one gets out of it is substantially due to the fact that he or she is not in the state of fear or apprehension that comes along with dropping into a singletrack trail worth writing about. :)
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At the risk of redundancy, I don't mind climbing, but I know my limits. I try to push through as much as I can, but I don't have the same priorities as the other top IMTB posters. I don't do 230 rides a year (I did 51). I don't spend 8-12 hours in the saddle, and I love other sports.

So - I will either do this ride in a manner that I can manage - that will still push my boundaries quite a bit - or I will continue to just do my own thing and let you guys keep giving everybody Sh!t for rides with less than 5000' of climbing. Funny - I left STR because of all the "Go Big or Go Home" attitudes about Snow Summit - where there was no room for someone who just wanted to enjoy riding and progress in a reasonable way.

Viva Mediocrity!

PS: Most of the big mileage/big climb riders on IMTB are also fast on the downs. I harbor no illusions that I descend faster or better than you @DangerDirtyD or @UPSed @mtnbikej @mike @Mikie @horsebikerider @mountaingirl sara @Grego @SnakeCharmer @Luis @rossage @Voodoo Tom @scottay @Tom the Bomb @redwoods or pretty much any of the other big ride people.
 
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