Like many old people I grew up road riding because mountain biking was still in it’s infancy even when I left school. But even by that point, I was already heading as far off-road as my skinny tires would let me and the cool kids were all doing BMX trains not nose to tail roadie chain gangs.
As soon as I fished a knobbly tire hybrid out of a canal at college, heading into the woods on “The Bike from Atlantis” I was hooked for life. So what is it about riding off-road that ticks my boxes compared to staying on Tarmac?
