An optimist once told me that things could always be better. Prior to that conversation, I had always thought that was actually a pessimistic term. I mean, shouldn’t we just be thankful with what we’ve already got? Are things really all that bad? Can’t we just all get on our bikes, ride off into the sunset, and be happy?
Of course we can. And no one is here to tell you otherwise. There are, of course, plenty of people out there right now riding on fully rigid 26in mountain bikes with cantilever brakes having a whale of a time. Admittedly a harsh, sketchy and forearm-numbing whale of a time. But a whale of a time nonetheless.