Bike porn

This is all that he was implying he wanted to do from what I read...he wasn't talking about racing the xc championships on it.

This is why I usually prefer to ride fully rigid off road these days...because I find it more fun.
It reminds me why I loved mountain biking in the first place, some 25yrs ago...the feeling of being bounced and jarred and sometimes being on the edge of control....usually with an enormous grin on my face. Suspension gradually dulled that down for me over the years.
Obviously you can do different things with long travel, but suspension, and fun off road aren't mutually exclusive.

So much truth in this post. I don't even feel like I need to defend my point of view against so much smug stupidity, but it's pretty obnoxious to just assume I've been riding for a year or two based on the fact that I haven't forgotten how to have fun on a bike. I've been riding bikes since I was a toddler and I would have quit a long time ago if I didn't think it was fun. But that's probably because I'm not motivated by owning the best and most expensive equipment, dressing up like a tool and looking down on people who put having fun first on their list of priorities.