06-10-2022, 02:57 PM
(This post was last modified: 06-10-2022, 03:03 PM by robdrimmie.)
(06-10-2022, 02:42 PM)danbrotherston Wrote: I really don't understand why someone who doesn't want to go mountain biking, would want to ride on gravel. Mountain biking has it's own appeal. But riding on gravel roads, which are identical to paved roads roads in all ways but surface, are simply a worse experience than riding on the same road paved.
I agree with almost everything you've said in this conversation, and especially that this trail in particular and probably most of the community trails through parks in the region would be better paved, but with this post it feels like you're approaching a point where you are arguing that your personal preference is somehow everyone's.
You not enjoying an experience does not make that experience universally unenjoyable. Yours is almost certainly the majority opinion, but for example as an autist with high vestibular input needs, the jostling I receive while riding gravel trails is actually not only enjoyable but literally therapeutic for me. I go out of my way (not super far) to add rough roads (trails, paths, etc), be they gravel or just beat-to-shit asphalt, to my regular commute.