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  • 150 things you LOVE about mountain bikers..
  • no_eyed_deer
    Free Member

    Ok… I’m probably being a bit optimistic here, but as a counter point to all things annoying – what are the things you love about mountain bikers?

    Me, for one, it is their shared affinity for mud, tea, cake and blue anodising (probably in that order).

    Well, that’s 4 things already..

    Posted 14 years ago
    slugwash
    Free Member

    They’re more likely to drink beer and puff weed than roadies 😉

    Posted 14 years ago
    loddrik
    Free Member

    Nothing, they’re all knobs.

    Posted 14 years ago
    ton
    Full Member

    most if not all i have met are usually very nice friendly people, and not up their own arses like most roadies i have met in the past.

    simonfbarnes is the exception………….. 😉

    Posted 14 years ago
    Gary_M
    Free Member

    I really love the way mountain bikers feel obsessed to talk about roadies all the **** time as though they are some sort of alien force. The immaturity this portrays is so appalling. It’s all bikes.

    ‘blue anodising’ 🙄

    Posted 14 years ago
    wassell99
    Free Member

    the willingness to get wet cold and muddy!!!!!

    Posted 14 years ago
    neil853
    Free Member

    shared affinity with all things outdoors, sitting down after a good ride having a chat and a beer, discussing at the top of a good climb about what to buy next (needlessly) ha ha are the good things.

    Bad – people not asking if you’ve got tools when your on the trail side, people not saying hello at all!!!! people who push in ques at the jet wash there’s loads but just goes around the topic of general argogance.

    Posted 14 years ago
    mema
    Free Member

    The escapism after a long hard day at work then a huge piece of cake and the feeling after getting up ‘that’ big hill.

    Posted 14 years ago
    soma_rich
    Free Member

    The cakes that seem to be appearing on more rides now 🙂

    Posted 14 years ago
    chakaping
    Free Member

    What’s this obsession with cake?

    Is it a subtle ploy to try to get more women into MTBing?

    Posted 14 years ago
    hillsplease
    Full Member

    Regular doses of buttock clenching life affirming near misses and big stacks that you can walk/limp away from.

    The fact that folk well into their 50s still ‘play bicycles’ in the woods with their mates.

    Most folk can be laughed at when they do something daft and don’t really mind.

    The simple mechanical pervery of a well fettled full suspension moutain bike, preferably smelling of GT85. I’ll get my coat ….

    Posted 14 years ago
    mema
    Free Member

    The ploy worked with me!

    Posted 14 years ago
    jova54
    Free Member

    They’re inabilety to reed a froum post without chequeing the grammer. 😉

    Posted 14 years ago
    pantsonfire
    Free Member

    Those occasional days when it all comes together the weather is right the trail is right nothing breaks and you seem to be able to pedal faster and further than usual.

    Unfortunately it only seems to happen to me a few times a year but they are all the more memorable for that

    Oh also Beer and Chocolate

    Posted 14 years ago
    slimtubing
    Free Member

    or spelling for that matter 🙄
    the unquentiable desire for new shiny bits.
    lycra clad bottoms.(of opposite sex)

    Posted 14 years ago
    MrAgreeable
    Full Member

    Speaking for myself here, the fact that they can get about 1″ of air off a crappy little jump and still think it’s the best thing ever. 🙂

    Posted 14 years ago
    kona_uk
    Free Member

    1.Escapism
    2.Group banter
    3.Cake
    4.Scenery
    5.Fun

    Posted 14 years ago
    D0NK
    Full Member

    Riding (on your own) through the morning mist, the only thing you can hear is the birds and the only living thing you see is wildlife.

    The adrenaline shot from pinning one of your fave downhills.

    Endorphin buzz after beasting yourself on a hard ride.

    Grinning like an idiot at the end of a cracking fast/technical section and seeing the same look mirrored in the faces of your riding chums.

    Post ride cake and the fact that you can eat huge slabs of it safe in the knowledge you’ve earned a massive carb deficit to cover it.

    Posted 14 years ago
    chakaping
    Free Member

    [pedant mode]The thread title says “bikers”, not “biking”.[/pedant mode]

    Funny how this thread’s a lot smaller than the “hate” one.

    Posted 14 years ago
    MrAgreeable
    Full Member

    Helpful types sorting you out when you’ve had a mechanical.

    A lot of them are happy to give you a lift somewhere if you’re a car-less scummer.

    Hipflasks! 🙂

    Posted 14 years ago
    simonfbarnes
    Free Member

    simonfbarnes is the exception

    m-u-s-t r-e-s-i-s-t :o)

    (but of course he meant exceptionally nice, handsome and THIN!)

    Posted 14 years ago
    DezB
    Free Member

    Their Dr Jekyll (on bikes) and Mr Hyde (on STW) nature

    Posted 14 years ago
    ooOOoo
    Free Member

    They like trees

    Posted 14 years ago
    thomthumb
    Free Member

    cameraderie
    banter
    piss taking
    cake
    bike geek chat
    riding tales
    tales of far off lands and epic singletrack adventures
    beer drinking

    Posted 14 years ago
    binners
    Full Member

    The urbane witty banter on the way to A&E

    Posted 14 years ago
    binners
    Full Member

    competitive hip flask wielding on the top of the hills*

    *Graham wins this hands down for the truly mental Absinthe fireworks evening where no-one remembers getting home 🙂

    Posted 14 years ago
    MrAgreeable
    Full Member

    The fact that they have bodging down to an art form. I’ve seen some amazing examples of engineering with zip ties and gaffa tape. I’ve even seen a picture of a cardboard chain device. 😯

    Posted 14 years ago
    jojoA1
    Free Member

    I like mountain bikers because in the main they are friendly and usually like being a little bit silly. I especially like the bikers who like being a lot silly.

    The ones I ride with generally dish out support and banter just when you need them.

    Posted 14 years ago
    MrAgreeable
    Full Member

    Even the ugliest Sidi disco slipper or special edition 5:10 wrongle shoe is cheaper and more practical than an Ugg boot.

    Posted 14 years ago
    redthunder
    Free Member

    They are all closet Botanists.

    Posted 14 years ago
    redthunder
    Free Member

    They like heavy forest plant and tractors 🙂

    Posted 14 years ago
    redthunder
    Free Member

    We even tolerate Emma’s on there ponies….. Woof Wooof.

    Posted 14 years ago
    D0NK
    Full Member

    [pedant mode]The thread title says “bikers”, not “biking”.[/pedant mode]

    Ah yes I’d read the title then misread the OP, I thought if he could have tea cake and blue anodising I can waffle on about riding. Of course it actually says “their shared affinity for”

    OK I love that mountainbikers aren’t afraid to point out your mistakes 🙂

    “Urbane witty banter on the way to A&E” – Classic!

    Posted 14 years ago
    BadlyWiredDog
    Full Member

    Their tendency to assume that somehow anyone who rides a mountain bike shares their own character traits and motivations, as if mountain bikers were some sort of big, uniform mass rather than a bunch of individuals with their own personal drives and character traits.

    I love that about mountain bikers, but strangely I don’t expect anyone else to share my viewpoint 🙂

    Posted 14 years ago
    MrAgreeable
    Full Member

    They sell you nice bike bits for cheap. And give you shonky bike bits for free.

    Posted 14 years ago
    finbar
    Free Member

    They’re not triathletes.

    Posted 14 years ago
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