cycling uphill is more rewarding
all my best rides have great climbs
achievement, views , exercise
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cycling downhill is so dull dull dull
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+1
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loser!
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brain in upside down
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must be a reality inversion.
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See where you're coming from... but I do relish the descents at the end of the climbs - they have to be earned!
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I agree, all the great climbs on dartmoor are memorable
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the climbs are rewarding, only when you have killer DH at the end of it!!!
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Your doin it wrong. So best to just walk down in future.
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i don't like travelling up on chair lifts, but i don't like descending on fireroads either.......
but, then i'm not really a fan of bike parks and their man-made trails. much prefer the natural stuff.
edit.... reminds me. i used to ride down in southern germany with one guy who used to say don't ride down what you can't ride up. he was **** talented, though. learnt a lot from him with regards to technical biking.
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Trolling? Surely!
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So, if you could only ride one more trail, are you honestly saying that it would be a climb?...
Fair play if your answer is, "yes".
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cycling downhill is so dull dull dull
You're doing it wrong then...
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I'm glad there's riders like you.
Frees up the downhills for riders like me!
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YOu do know you get the same view if you walk up?
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Agree that the climbs are rewarding - but at the right time of day (when theres no walkers about) - the downhill bits are hyoooooooj fun
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the up is how you pay for the down
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uplifts all the way.
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Uplifts, Push up, ride up....who cares.
As long as people are getting involved in the sport.
Downhilling is a lot of teenagers route into the sport as it looks cool to them. Funnily enough several of the youngsters at my local DH course are realizing that riding XC gets them fit for DH races whilst improving their bike handling.
No need to marginalize ourselves. All MTBing is good.
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Dair, if you asked that question on a roadie forum, pretty much everyone would give an answer that would involve one of the classic climbs, with a summit finish.
Now MTB descending is great fun, but there's still some of us that have the same mentality to offroad climbing (even if we're not outstanding at it)... so yes I would choose a climb, especially with a nice view, and maybe a shrubbery Posted 2 years ago # -
I like the challenge of a climb and then there is the deferred gratification ...
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uplift up ride down, ride to uplift ride down... quite easy for me
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You hill climbing likers must be on one extreme of mountain biking just as those amongst us who only like going down hill are at the other extreme.
I must be right in the middle because I like climbing and going down hill
Uphill due to exercise, views, achievement
Downhill due to speed, adrenalin, danger
[troll]If you only like one of those you are only half a mountain biker IMO.[/troll]
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much prefer the natural stuff
LOL
Like what??Posted 2 years ago # -
If you've got time/energy to 'look at the view' you're not climbing, just riding a bike uphill
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Uphill can be rewarding, but usually not challenge to anything other than fitness. Downhill is a challenge to skill, or I'm not going fast enough...
Now flat, that's fitness and skill!
yeay flatland riding.
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I like both, a singletrack climb and then a swooping singletrack descent is perfect.
If you've got time/energy to 'look at the view' you're not climbing, just riding a bike uphill
I find as my head lolls to the side, no energy left, sometimes I catch a glimpse into the distance... Does that count?
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Switch to fixed wheel, it makes the downhills more exciting again
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I find as my head lolls to the side, no energy left, sometimes I catch a glimpse into the distance... Does that count?
as long as you've got little white dots spinning in front of your eyes and the taste of blood in your mouth
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Being up high is the best - everything else is a bonus and usually a surprise.
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had a guest stay with us in the alps who wouldnt buy a lift pass, rode UP EVERYTHING. right to the top. then descended until he met roads, and went down on the road to the start of the next climb.
he was proper odd tho.
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ex-pat - Member
Uphill can be rewarding, but usually not challenge to anything other than fitness.
that's a load of shyte then isn't it. try riding up technical, boulder-strewn climbs and say it's just fitness?
mountain biking up, down, flat is all good in my book.
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morpheus only ever trolls
Up, along , down, repeat. It's all good.
If there's an uplift, I'll use it just to get more downhill practice time.
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i just find i get the views after a nice comfy and relaxing uplift. then i can enjoy riding along abit till i get to the downhill
but each to their own..
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Technical Climbing requires more skill, strength and stamina. DH requires a bit less skill, strength and stamina but much bigger balls and no family. Jacobs ladder. Most could ride down it few could ride up it. I get more of a buzz when I have cleared all the technical cimbs on my usual route the when I do the descents as the thing that stops me doing the drops and gaps is more my brain than skill.
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