Does anyone ride anymore or is everyone blasting these days? “Went for a quick blast” seems to be the prefered term for “rode my bike”.

I don’t think I’ve ever blasted. I’ve ambled, minced and bimbled. How do you ride yours?

Amble, pootle, meander, wander.

Hack.. I hack.

That will be the vaping Bikebouy

Fight. I had a fight today on the cross bike.

it’s pretty much smash, thrash or blast everything here

… but as soon as they enverbify “awesome” I’ll be awesoming everywhere instead

I have mused on the terminology used to describe riding fairly recently.

It’s all ‘shredding, slaying, killing it, bossing it’.

Pretty aggressive stuff, like the trail is a thing that needs dominating.

TBH, I don’t really understand it.

If I’m on my enduro weapon then I don’t really have any choice but to go for a blast – destroying berms, perhaps even annihilating entire trails.

I don’t necessarily like it, but what else can I do?

A spin.

‘Cos I have no soup.

I blast…. Or strava win. Shred the gnaaaarrrrrrrrr. Ave it…. Send it…. Spin…. Win….

But normally just go for a bloody ride in the rain and then complain.

You can only go for a quick blast, everything else is an epic

I bimbled today

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You can only go for a quick blast, everything else is an epic

You forgot death march.
You’re allowed to get drunk and fall asleep in the bath after a death march.

I think it goes Bimble, Pootle, Spin, Ride, Blast, Trudge, Epic, Death March.
Well, that’s what we called our kids, anyway.

I “close it down”.

I bimble or pootle. My Strava times are usually better than when I attempt to blast 😀

I always genuinely thought a blast was a quick paced ride (measured exclusively by your own standards) or one where you ride a little harder than your all afternoon peace around something that was predominantly single-track or twisty/sharp stuff but only when you don’t have much time. The road version is similar but without the fun aspects of some nice single-track and added diesel fumes.

For me a blast would be – a 2 hour ride around the local trail centre wheezing a lot but pushing myself to ride each section as hard as my mediocre skills would allow.

Sending it on the other hand – is for parcels i.e.
Team CRC has been sending it to the max this week = Christmas shopping has started and there’s a lot of black Friday deals on.

I own my shreddage to teh maxx.

I own my shreddage to teh maxx.

Your autocorrect seems to be on the blink, I think you were trying to say:

“My own shreddies are from TK Maxx”?

[roadie] I popped in a ton on Friday morning, which translated as a pretty steady ride. But this morning I smashed out 90 as it was full gas. I think I only deviate from this when I race. When I go out on the MTB, I just go for a ride? [\roadie]

It depends. 😉

Occassionalyl blast, mainly mince

Definitely ride as blast sounds like you went hard and fast, something I don’t do.

My personal bugbear is “schralp”. I’ve not idea how one would go about schralping, but it doesn’t sound very healthy.

My personal bugbear is “schralp”. I’ve not idea how one would go about schralping,

You probably have to get rowdy first (my own pet peeve).

Nothing new about blasting. I’ve been going on quick blasts for decades. Sometimes I wish I was more about the epic mince with a bit of bimble-gnar thrown in. But those days are rare.

‘Off for a quick blat’ – very similar to a blast.

Oi, that’s my blasted saying! Leave off ya blasting blabbering fool!

Oh yheah, I tore it upand roosted having been out for a blast yesterday 😛

Props, braw.

Intervals, social pace, threshold home. Yesterday, on a bike.

Intervals, social pace, threshold home.

Villages in Surrey?
😉

I usually go for a struggle, grimace, air gulps and freewheel … to the max rad power of 10 dude

I will be giving it a good fisting tomorrow. Until I am tired, then I will be pushing.

I usually go for a struggle, grimace, air gulps and freewheel … to the max rad power of 10 dude

Like I said above then. 😛

Ride. I go for a ride.
Plain & simple/boring.

It’s like having the heating on Full Blast.
It’s never actually made any kind of sound akin to a blasting sound, however high it’s turned up.

It’s this reference to activities with the word “cheeky” that makes me tut.

I float. I roll. I am slow.

Nothing wrong with a cheeky ride…

For those times when you really should be doing something else but, “ahh, sod it, go on then”

A “carry” mostly 😆

I enjoy going for ‘a razz’

If in search of a new route, it’s a ‘mooch’..

I used to do an hour of power.
Now a gentle trot.