Joaquin Cunanan

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• April 2, 1999, on Bicycles:

  I'm a roadie who has tried mountain biking. The best part of mountain biking is the scenery. You also get to participate in a trendy sport. The worst part is the alarming risk of injury. As a roadie, I drop my bike less than once/year. My mountain biker friends drop their bikes all the time, sometimes with serious injury. This is also illustrated in many of Greenspun's own misadventures. BTW, I don't just ride my road bike in suburban or rural areas. I ride in San Francisco which is rife with risks, but is, in my mind, less dangerous than typical singletrack. If I wanted to travel off-road, I would probably walk or use a cyclocross bike. With a cyclocross bike, you walk or carry the bike across the really difficult/dangerous sections. I'm sure that to real mountain bikers, this makes me a "girlie-man" to use photo.net parlance. So be it. I hate getting broken bones for no real good reason. Besides, I think that real men ride fixed-gear track bikes. I've ridden them on the track. ...