Looking for a particular thread about the TD

[happyriding]

Hi,

Last week I followed a link to this forum, and I was reading a thread (I thought it was a TD race preparation thread), and someone posted a ride report from the previous year, which I gathered was critical of ATV's roaring around at night and making a lot of noise.  Some people responded to the post by saying that the rider was overly critical of the people who live in the heartland of America, and that hypocritically the rider described how he got in a fight with someone else when the rider himself was making a lot of noise one night. Can any of you regulars direct me back to that thread?  I've searched around, and I can't find it.

Thanks.

[Briansong]

I remember that thread. It was a UK rider that posted his diary up. I think it was me who called him out on his outright and bitter contempt for middle America. He used robust quantities of profanity to describe riding through small mi ing towns with vivid descriptions of what he though of the towns, the mines and the kind folks within.

He frowned on taxidermy displayed in the numerous, nameless small town bars & restaurants.

I'll look a bit and try to find it.

[Briansong]

Found it. Post #886 is his write up. You'll need to find the actual verbiage. It was Greg Mays blog.

http://www.bikepacking.net/forum/ultra-racing/tour-divide-2016-race-discussion-thread/msg85578/#msg85578

[happyriding]

Thanks Briansong!  I thought I remembered it being 2016!

[davebarter]

I read the reports and I also know Greg. I don't think he was overly critical, he just wrote it as he saw it from a tired often frustrated and foreign point of view. I can imagine the sorts of blogs that a few American ridders might write if they rode through Moss Side completely bolloxed. I enjoyed his blog as it was raw and not overly focused on the afterglow of completion as so many seem to be. Made me excited about my attempt this year for sure.

[Briansong]

I read the reports and I also know Greg. I don't think he was overly critical, he just wrote it as he saw it from a tired often frustrated and foreign point of view. I can imagine the sorts of blogs that a few American ridders might write if they rode through Moss Side completely bolloxed. I enjoyed his blog as it was raw and not overly focused on the afterglow of completion as so many seem to be. Made me excited about my attempt this year for sure.

Dave, you're obviously welcome to your opinion. However for you to "imagine how a few American riders would write" vs. how Greg actually DID write, is simply giving a pal, a pass.

I travel internationally frequently. When I'm home and especially when I'm in a host country, I will always act as an ambassador for my country, my sport and myself. If I see things I find a "shithole" or fat unhealthy people, I can simply process it, and move along, keeping my negative feelings to myself.

I'm proud of this country and middle America. If mining is so abhorrent, might I suggest riding a bicycle made from bamboo and hemp.