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  • Mountain biker/Trail rider?
  • cyclesinmotion
    Free Member

    Hi,
    Just a small question. Should a mountain bike be called a mountain biker if the have never been to the top of a mountain under there known steam?

    Surely you should call yourself a trail rider? They build trail bikes?

    What has prompted this that when I go in the bigger hills in the UK I very rarely see any other folk out on bikes. However if I went down the road to a trail centre the car park would be full. I live in the Peak district and you can’t move for people on bikes on the weekend, and that’s great. Still it’s not the mountains.
    ??

    jekkyl
    Full Member

    There is so much wrong with this post that I can’t even be bothered to reply to your ridiculous question.

    Pook
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    seahouse
    Free Member

    +1

    Trimix
    Free Member

    Why would you call a mountain bike a mountain biker ?

    What has steam got to do with it ?

    What is known steam ?

    As a troll the grammer is poor.

    You ride the bike, not the trail.

    druidh
    Free Member

    I call trail centre folk ORRCs.

    Off-road recreational cyclists.

    jekkyl
    Full Member

    it’s like borat has written the post.

    njee20
    Free Member

    There is so much wrong with this post that I can’t even be bothered to reply to your ridiculous question.

    He raises a good point.

    Stick to selling stuff.

    yossarian
    Free Member

    I ride trails. Some of them have gone up mountains but most don’t.

    I know what the OP is getting at and ultimately I think most of us like the phrase and its attachment to us. I can’t speak for others but in my case it’s probably not very accurate.

    bikeind
    Free Member

    the OP has a point most defiantly.

    molgrips
    Free Member

    Still it’s not the mountains

    You’re riding in the UK and claiming to be a MOUNTAIN biker? Lolz.

    Northwind
    Full Member

    I have always liked VTT. And I think my first mountain bike was officially an ATB.

    wwaswas
    Full Member

    I find trying to explain to people what a

    “Bridleway, BOAT, RUPP & assorted cheeky trails” Bike

    is causes endless confusion.

    So I use a shorthand of ‘Mountain Bike’ which explains exactly what the bike is even if it doesn’t cover where it’s ridden.

    wrecker
    Free Member

    Well, according to the various definitions of a mountain as per wikipedia; the hills in the peak district only fit into one out of four.
    So, cyclesinmotion you’re a trail rider.

    DrP
    Full Member

    I call myself a “radskillz riderz” cyclist person.

    But then don’t we all….

    DrP

    (this is like Karl Pilkinton ‘coming up with’ ideas on how the human procreation ‘can be be better’, and Gervais questioning how one would carry out such an idea…)

    molgrips
    Free Member

    Velo tout terrain doesn’t cut it either. Not much good on soft sand or deep snow are they?

    druidh
    Free Member

    There’s a solution to that….

    CaptainFlashheart
    Free Member

    As a troll the grammer is poor.

    davidjones15
    Free Member

    Apparently it’s not about the bike.

    pmc00per
    Free Member

    I guess I am a trail rider as I live in East Anglia and we barely have hills let alone mountains. If anyone could donate one I would be very grateful

    Northwind
    Full Member

    molgrips – Member

    Not much good on soft sand or deep snow are they?

    If only someone invented some sort of mountain bike that was 😉

    (snow is weather not terrain!)

    bikeind
    Free Member

    premier troll member?

    he did say The Peaks weren’t the m,mountains 🙄

    molgrips
    Free Member

    Snow is terrain!

    If only someone invented some sort of mountain bike that was

    I am aware of such things, but most bikes labelled VTT are not fatbikes.

    mattsccm
    Free Member

    A trail rider is someone who rides their motorcycle on unsurfaced roads and has been for decades. A trail bike is the motorcycle used for such an event.
    Just as an enduro is a motorcycle event that covers much ground with a timed reliabilty aspect as its main focus.
    What we ride are ATB’s

    argoose
    Free Member

    Off road cyclist or non-gimp cyclist should cover it.

    Northwind
    Full Member

    Terrain is the ground, snow and ice sits on top of the terrain. So nyah.

    wysiwyg
    Free Member

    Not atb, mtb; most terrain bicycles.

    maxtorque
    Full Member

    Whilst it is perhaps considered inappropriate to make a mountain out of a molehill, some of us less vertically endowed Off Road Riders do in fact have to do just that……………. 😉

    yunki
    Free Member

    I rode yo mama last night.. what does that make me..?

    igrf
    Free Member

    Ha, i just had to explain to some yotties that a 100mm travel Halfords Boardman special is not actually regarded as a mountain bike these days, since the term Mountain Biker has since actually been redefined with the advent of Lifts going to the top of actual Mountains.

    argoose
    Free Member

    A necrophiliac yunki

    pussywillow
    Free Member

    Why does everyone lick ass with everyone else? Stick to what u believe and stop being a **** sheep!
    Baaah 😆

    yunki
    Free Member

    A necrophiliac yunki

    dead boring until some rotten **** splits on you.. 😕

    ba dum tish!

    IGMC

    bencooper
    Free Member

    We don’t have any mountains in this country. We have hills.

    druidh
    Free Member

    An Teallach disagrees with you.

    bencooper
    Free Member

    That’s a lovely hill. It’s not a mountain.

    druidh
    Free Member

    🙄 right.

    Edric64
    Free Member

    We don’t have any mountains in this country. We have hills.

    Land over 2000ft in the uk is classed as mountainous

    bencooper
    Free Member

    Okay, I’m slightly kidding. But in Scotland at least, the old boys never called them mountains – mountains were what you got in the Alps – what we have in Scotland are hills.

    It’s a kind of reverse macho thing – you don’t fall into the bothy saying “it’s terrible weather out there on the mountain”, you saunter in saying “it’s a bit breezy on the hill today”. 🙂

    jekkyl
    Full Member

    The bikes we ride (hard tail or full sus) are capable of riding up and down mountains, therefore they are mountain bikes. Regardless of where we ride them if we ride a mountain bike we are mountain bikers.

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