The Marin mountain bike crew is pretty colorful even by American standards. While the English have their share of colorful characters, they don’t have a state dedicated to the concept, so when they come here they tend to get more excited about these folks than the locals do.
Here is an example from the English mountain bike magazine Privateer. They went for a ride with people who ride bikes and got an entire story out of it. Scroll arrows are at the bottom left of the image.
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