(Riding bicycles. In the woods. For fun.) 

Almost always antithetical to mountain biking, the word ‘need’ is boundlessly bandied about in bicycling businesses. Sometimes simply combined with consideration for a crafty cosmetic coalescence. Often attached to aspirations for performance perks, sanguinely stated by adventurous adults imaging immediate improvements at… Riding bicycles. In the woods. For fun. 

One simply will not wade in with waxing of their wants. A bigger boost to braking is obligatory. Rock rolls are rendered rideable by real rubber. All fresh armour is amazingly less aromatically awful. Today is for toasting total technological triumph over that trying trail… Riding bicycles. In the woods. For fun. 

Panicked plastic flat pedal purchase? Crappy contact points causing crashes? Rubber rolling too rapidly thanks to reduced knobility? Handlebar bashed back beyond better backsweep? Suspension shot and summer servicing queues are unsatisfactory? Stem is simply not shiny enough to show up on Single Speed Sunday? Financing fixes for finally… Riding bicycles. In the woods. For fun. 

Needs.