Selling Ice To Eskimos

Riding trails can be tough.

- Darren Eckford

Depending on what you ride and your skillset, there can be plenty of stuff that will spook you and have you sweating bullets. For the Lycra brigade, anything that involves some rocks and any kind of slope will usually see them screaming more than a 50 year old in skin tight leather pants at a Kiss concert. For the Enduro boys it might be huge gaps or serious rockgardens that make them stop and offer up the old “I would hit that for sure if I had my big bike” chestnut.

For me, it falls somewhere in between. I am not the fastest in my crew, but also not the slowest. There isn’t much that I won’t have a go at out on the trails, but there is one thing that is always guaranteed to have my tail between my legs faster than an XC bandit on an E-bike. Hills….