After seeing the world champs road race and tt, and also watching the world champs dh, I started wondering just how many forms of riding we do brilliantly at.

We seem to be all over road racing, tting, dh and track. We’ve even got brilliant trials riders.

But I don’t follow XC, bmx, or cross – how are we doing in general in those disciplines?

XC – a bit shit
BMX – good
Cross – worse than XC

We’ve even got brilliant trials riders.

At competition/UCI level? Not sure about that one…..

as iDave says! Although
track – shite hot
road riding (men) – shizzle bizzle
road riding (women) – mmm some good names but not tippety top.

Thing is we should be good a cross, perhaps in a few years time?

XC, no wonder really when you look at the mountainbikers attitude on here.

oldgit, that’s a pretty lame link you’re making? some idiots on a recreational (at best) forum = no success at world level competitively?

WHy should we be good at cross in a few years? In the UK it’s seen as a winter way of keeping fit for MTBers, it’s not massively huge, or lucrative, or even carries a great amount of respect, unlike Belgium where cross is THE thing! They have cross races going through great big spectator stands selling beer..now that is awesome!

Again MTBing doesn’t get much kudos or recognition, so people who are good tend to move towards track or road cycling. Geraint Thomas start as an MTBer with a bit of track but when he realised hew as good moved across as a junior. Sadly a lot of these things nowadays are about kudos and money, if you can be good at road, why flog the horse of XC? Not saying it’s right, just MO.

oldgit – Member
XC, no wonder really when you look at the mountainbikers attitude on here.

Eh?

I thought we had a fairly strong XC team, didn’t they do quite well at the Olympic test event?

oldgit, that’s a pretty lame link you’re making? some idiots on a recreational (at best) forum = no success at world level competitively?

True, but they get to me. Though DBs words of wisdom are encouraging.

Cross, BC seem to be doing more i.e helping clubs directly, formatting events. That and the fact that more riders are err riding 😐 Probably more wishful thinking.

druid aimed at the thread were a good few folk seemed it wasn’t fair that fit fast athletes should be at an advantage in a race?

I’d hardly say we were dominating

True, but we are having a damn good wee in the shoes of other great cycling nations.

We do seem to have some depth though.

A damn good wee indeed.

Sorry oldgit- I didn’t see that one. Bizarre….

We dominate at Freeride..

Freeride = don’t give a ****, don’t do it for competition just the craic, sticking it, & look totally coowell.

Freeride = the only coowell thing in Cycling.

aye we are weeing but the bombers are still in the cupboard

We dominate at Freeride..

Freeride = don’t give a ****, don’t do it for competition just the craic, sticking it, & look totally coowell.

Freeride = the only coowell thing in Cycling.

Swooooon

there’s a potential banning if anyone wants to make a ghey joke about now

A lot of my friends are ‘that way’ those that didn’t kill themselves in a gas fight that is..

They’re still cool though.

Isn’t the Redbull rampage a freeride competition? Same for Crankworx?

We won the 3 peaks too!

XC, no wonder really when you look at the mountainbikers attitude on here.

There’s mountainbikers on here?
I though this a forum for overweight IT professionals that went to a trail centre once a year and spent the rest of the time giving everyone the benefit of their vast knowledge. 😛