We, humans, are gifted at forgetting it is our safety switch. Some who don't ride still have their bikes dwelling in the dark, well-hidden from the sunlight some bikes are long forgotten and are rotting away. Some we still occasionally see, some we will never see again, but they dwell in our memories. Our friends that we biked with for decades moved on with their lives and ride no more. Things we saw everyday and took for granted either vanished or became something else, something beyond recognition but there is nothing we can do to stop the train, and we are yet to challenge the laws of thermodynamics. Things that seemed ordinary suddenly became history.
#CAMPFIRE LEGENDS THE LAST ACT FREERIDE GAMES FREE#
Regardless, feel free to ask me anything in the comments, I will try my best to respond. Perhaps it is stupid to use 24 inch wheels in 2021, but you know what? The true believers will. There are two types of people: people that feel something when they see bikes like these, and people that don't. Not your cup of tea? Totally fine, I get it. The aim is to give you, to the extent possible, an unbiased overview of the unique culture we developed over the decades. Because we didn't, and that was the whole point. Consider me a messenger: what you make of the message is only up to you, but don't take it too seriously. I read more than a thousand pages of all sorts of threads to select the posts, comments, and translate them as accurately as was possible (and so that they actually mean something, taken out of the context) all to insure that you get the content you deserve. I invested countless hours interviewing people, finding pictures, asking people to send me pictures. We knew long time ago.Īriel on Demo 9, me on Balfa BB7, Aloe on Big Hit III all with Monster T2's tuned to 230mm (9 inches) travel (2012) We, the Streetetz Clan, are shrugging shoulders and smiling. yeah, isn't it strange to talk about these things, considering 2021? I know, yes, I know: yet the more I look around, the more I see people going totally crazy about that bikes. I make a conscious choice!) as a follower of the Russian and Ukrainian Urban Freeride Cult I came here to tell you a story.Ī story about Prophets, Prophecies, and the Sacred: the Karpiels, Banshee Screams, Duncon's, the beautiful Italian Super Monsters, Seismic Industries Hubs, the sexy Doubletracks and the double Doublewides.
I come from Kiev, I am an environmentalist, a freerider, I love bikes, and I have been using a Super Monster for nearly a decade I have no intention for swapping it for anything else in the foreseeable future (though it doesn't mean I cannot appreciate modern bikes and modern parts, I actually do. Nothing unusual here: your ordinary racing line up in Moscow (2011)Ī few words about me: name is Yegor, also known as Nemesis_999. As we grew older we realized that all things, even cults, eventually come to an end and all this time we were staring at the slowly setting sun. What you probably don't know is that Ukraine and Russia, at some point, developed a sophisticated biking community with its biking portals (as old as Pinkbike) that had its own Freeride Brotherhood, where Bender-style would dwell. It was when I realized: there is a much bigger story that needs to be told. At some point I decided to rewrite everything from scratch. as the time went by, I would revisit it, again and again. so I did write my story that contained dozens of pictures of cool bikes, descriptions, thoughts.
Russian and Ukrainian forums have a tradition of creating personal stories threads after 600 replies I could not leave the mates hanging. My personal story really took off after stolen bike thread. The Marzocchi Monster T's on a bike show in Kiev (2011) With this mountain-biking history article I would like to welcome you to 2021. Let this article remind you how much the bikes have actually changed, and how much the world around us has changed. We learned to go faster, send it bigger, land it smoother. Bikes, after all, are just reflections of who we are, like everything else. I mean, even by looking at bikes we see how much they evolved over the last century how much was left in the past or re-invented or just forgotten, proved to be useless in the long run. The human lifespan is too short to be able to see it all, and there is no time machine: imagine how much of what happened was never recorded or documented. What we see around us is a fraction of a world that has been changing long before we were here, and it will continue to change long after we are gone.
The chance of life appearing on a planet is rather slim the chance of life thriving and sustaining itself is slimmer. Not in terms of just bikes in terms of the Anthropocene itself.
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