Mountain biking is...

...climbing over a mountain of bicycles.

I spotted a nice small (which I am) Raleigh road bike in the pile today but after a little time with it noticed that one of the rear seat stays was bent to buggery, so I reluctantly labelled it 'for parts'.  Not to be deterred I climbed over lots of crap to see if there were any other candidates.  This was the only one that was small enough for me but I suspect it is too rusty and has daft toe-overlap to be worth spending any time on.