We usually just go for a ‘ride’ but sometimes I’ll pop out for a quick blast about, usually no more than half an hour of skids and wheelies and riding down stairs and other adolescent stuff, if I fancy. I tend not to shred, schralp, own, boss or kill anything much. Mooching’s good though, followed by a bimble along the same bit of whatever you’ve previously mooched along, with a flask of tea and a cheese sarnie, obvs. You can fit a mooch into a bimble, but you can’t shouldn’t bimble while mooching, that’s just rude.
If it’s in a group ..its a ride .
If I’m solo ..its a pootle or a mooch aboot ( pootle is when I know where I’m going ..a mooch is more of an explore somewhere new).
it’s ‘hooning’ that gets my goat. I can imagine people saying this who wear their collars popped and have tribal tattoos despite being from Milton Keynes.
I’ve heard people saying they’re going to Hamsters to do ‘enduro practice’. Surely that’s just riding around a trail centre, isn’t it? Or is it case of if you race than any other ride out is ‘training’ or ‘practice’, ie not just for the sheer unbridled fun of it?.
I’m not one for keeping up with the latest lingo, but surely “blast” is a valid one for those rides when you’ve not got the usual amount of time, so you go shorter, but harder? – “a quick blast”
If go for a thrash, or a smash about the trails, it’s a short, anti-social, just me, waiting for no-one ride, hurting myself up the the hills and hoping not to down again.
I don’t know about “blast”. It seems to imply more speed than “thrash”, which describes the effort and perhaps the visual effect, but not the attainment.
Spookily I went for a blast this morning, unfortunately it was Bi Lateral Analysis and Stimulation Treatment which deals with clearing the after effects of trauma, no bikes involved. This blast is very weird stuff (but seems to work)!
