This article originally appeared on the Steed Cycles blog.
Cycling is a pretty amazing sport, and I’m proud to have called it my own for over a decade now. While no single person can ‘own’ cycling, it belongs to all of us and means something different to each and every person. That’s why I think it’s so amazing.
I can only speak for myself here, but cycling has done so much for me personally. Hobbies and interests have come and gone, but cycling has remained a constant, something to always be passionate about, and I think there are a few different reasons for that.
When I was a kid, I was not particularly athletic. Growing up in a relatively poor (at the time) town in the UK, most other kids there were into football (soccer to the rest of the world), and I just didn’t get it. I couldn’t do it, I didn’t find it interesting, and that meant I struggled to make friends. If you weren’t into football, there wasn’t a whole lot else to do in my town. When I discovered mountain bikes in my early teens, something clicked for me. I knew I was into it, but it took until I was at university to really get into the sport because I never had much money, my home trails really sucked, and I didn’t really know anyone else that rode.
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