Less strength, but skillz are up. Endurance remains the same. Overall, slightly faster on an all-day XC ride nowadays. Which is nice. I’m 49.

Same as OP really. Fitness the same, but i’ve lost that “who cares” attitude to chucking my self down mountains and over sharp pointy rocks that i used to have 10 years ago.

As a consequence i think i’m slower.

no 🙁

Ha – very Vicky Pollard Kevevs 🙂

Yes & No.
As I’ve “ahem” matured , I am alot more careful than I was – which means slower.But I can endure more suffering now than 10 years ago.

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… Yep been Jedi ed

Thanks man 🙂

Yes, but only because my lifestyle has changed, 10 years ago I was too busy dj-ing at getting mashed til the early hours.

Not hugely better just different!
Was def fitter and leaner 10 years ago and my times round an XC race loop or down a DH race track would have been faster. 10years back I would have still been away crashing my brains out all over the country most weekends racing/riding DH, I haven’t pushed myself for an entire DH run in a good 5 years now but despite just arseing around on bikes now I still enjoy varied/challenging/interesting riding, there’s nothing I could have ridden 10years back I couldn’t still ride. although due to an injury I need to ride in a foot brace most of the time and comparitively I’m shite at wheelies now (can still wheelie well, staying at the balance point is just not so fluid) in many small ways I am a better rider now but more than that, I’m a cleverer rider and have a far better understanding of my own riding. I rarely wear a helmet these days, 10 years back that would have seemed like madness!
still riding pretty much the same set-up’s on all my bikes as I was 10years back too (infact 3 of them I’ve had longer than 10years).

Yes way better, but I was not very good at all 10 years ago.

Improvement due to a combination of the people I now ride with, the amazing bikes we have now, riding gnarlier places more often, practicing and some skills training.

But as “good” as I think I’m getting relative to myself in the past, it seems there are more and more people who are better than me and who are getting better quicker!

i’d say so, however……… 19 years ago i would’ve been better as i was riding full rigid and natural off-piste trails <proper hardcore> couldn’t do that now!! 😀

Yes.

Better rider – Yes
Faster rider – probably not
Definitely not so ‘Gung Ho’

(being self employed and family responsibilities have taken their toll,,,,,oh and old age)

yes, still can’t wheely still can’t jump but all the stuff I normally do I’m getting better at. My bottle/cajones/bravery doesn’t seem to be diminishing too much with age, good job really as I never had much to start with.