Its the opposite for me. I was a die-hard roadie for years living in Edmonton, then we moved to the Lower Mainland 5 years ago, and I gradually got into trail riding with my son. Then he got into DH and riding the bike park, and now we race DH (well, he races, I pretend to). I now have a DJ bike, 6" AM bike, and a DH bike as well as my road bike, but the road bike sees less and less use. I do ride it more in the winter, for training, and when the trails are really sloppy, and for errands. I can't see that I find the same similarities that Dan does, except when descending on a road bike. But perhaps that is because I've come the opposite way, and feel like I've "discovered" how much of a rush mountain biking is. The main thing is that we are all riding bikes, regardless of what kind it may be.

He is rarely 100% serious, and he rides pretty well too...thats him at 1:05.

Hey Nic, check out todays VOD, on the Sunshine Coast...I think we need to go there!!! Loam galore.

"...unfortunately, the celebration was short-lived. After this stage of the race ended, the UCI caught up with Dave and had him undertake the post-ride urine test required of all riders. Although there were no specific Performance Enhancing drugs found in Dave Watson's system, there were some unknown substances who's origins could only be traced back to the soil of the Pacific Northwest area of Canada. As they could not prove without a doubt that Dave had "cheated" the UCI non-the-less stripped him of their official level of "radness" granted to road racers. Ironically, this in turn boosted his level of radness in the Mountain Bike community to Sick, with a subtext of "Steez". The rest is, as they say.....history.

I think he runs Sombrio