Forget the rest, it’s about doing what you want

“Forget the rest, it’s about doing what you want” – Brice Minnigh

The November issue of Bike magazine’s “Start here” talks about mountain biking as “casting off those social chains that enslave us… escaping from all rules and responsibilities, from a homogenizing social order that stamps out individual expression and grinds humanity into a nauseating passive pile of sameness… and getting out to shred with a reckless abandon that funnels us straight back to our primal roots”.

CrossStock is what occurred when mountain bikers decided to host a skinny-tired, curly-barred happening. I’m not sure CrossStock has boundaries. If there are boundaries the following fall within: Ride what you brung • beer and doughnut hand-ups • totally sketchy downhill • eye gouging rocks • tractor ruts • rock wall crossings • hot tub • out and backs hairpins • drum circles • amateur hour • beer podiums • farm animals • bonfire • and a death spiral.

A bit of trivia – Most ants are sighted, however some are completely blind and it’s possible for them to become disorientated and march in circles until they die of exhaustion – its been called one of the strangest sights in nature. I tend to agree with this assessment once I witness it re-enacted at CrossStock.

Lastly, CrossStock provided a first for me. This was the first time I shared a podium with Thierry – ever!