I’ve never liked the idea of bucket lists. If swimming with dolphins is that good, then do it as often as you can, not just once so you can post the pictures on Facebook.

Anyway, never mind the mini rant;

What do you want to do on a bike, haven’t done yet, but have some plans, no matter how vague, to do in the future ?
Could be anything that needs time, commitment, training or all three.

1. For me, it’s ride the Stourport Ring and Avon Ring, two local canal loops of 74 and 107 miles.

2. Do some proper bikepacking/bivvying, either solo or on the tandem.

3. Ride every bridleway within 10km of home at least once. Then extend to 15km, 20km, etc.

Once I’m comfortable with number 2, I can then move on to;

4. Ride the Mercian Way, 230 miles of Sustrans Route 45.

5. Cross every possible bridge over the River Severn by bike on one journey.

5. Ride up the Severn Way from home to the Hafren Forest, back down the Wye Valley Walk, then back up the Severn to home again. About 350 miles in total.

Norway.
Norway on a 150mm FS.
Norway on my Parlee.

Cross every possible bridge over the River Severn by bike on one journey.

I like this one and might pinch it!

1) Find a really really flat route (preferably the coast) and see how many miles I can do from dawn till dusk – taking it fairly gently.
2) Highlands (holiday booked in about 8 weeks time).
3) Bivvy 2 nights instead of the usual 1.
4) Try and take both my boys bivvying at once, instead of separately.
5) Stay at a friend’s in Vancouver and do the north shore – maybe a trip to whistler.
6) Try and organise a road trip from Durango to California, but at the very least take in moab/sedona/porcupine rim.

Not a big fan of bucket list either. It smacks of delayed gratification, not how I live! I do have a list of bike stuff though.

1. Proper manual on the trail. Not just a couple of 10m´s at walking pace but proper distance down singletrack at speed.
2. Properly lay the bike flat off a jump, not just tweak the bars and lean it over a bit.
3. A BIG gap, again not just two or three bike lengths.
4. Ride all day and night in a straight-ish line away from where I live.
5. Build a trail and make the locals call it Doug Mc-F***ing-Donald.
6. Teach my daughter to ride faster than I can.
7. Still be riding flat out at 60. (My Mum rode Whistler at 60 and the liftie on the top lift made her put on a Full Face helmet. Because she´s gnarr, not because she´s ugly!).
8. Still be riding hard at 70.
9. Still be riding at 80.
10. Still be able to get on bike at 90.
11. Visit my brother in Vancouver and ride bikes with him.

Flip-Whip.

Bunnyhop 😐 ..i dont know how

wheelie – a proper one

I don’t like bucket lists either – treat one year as it comes:

Fred Whitton Challenge – doing it this year
Coast to Coast in a day – doing it this year
South Downs Way in a day – doing it this year
24hr race – doing it this year

West Highland Way for me, it’s got a romance beyond the reality 😆

And yeah, a proper sustained manual. I can do a really long unsustainable one, which is all you actually need, but it’s just no good for riding past the chip shop.

JEngledow , pinch away.
I was kind of hoping other people might come up with “Why didn’t I think of that ?” ideas

20 minute 10

I only have one currently..

1> get my 9 yr old daughter out on her mountain bike doing some proper offroad riding this summer.

C2C
Alpencross
Build a pair of wheels (and ride them, and not die as a result)

Proper bunny hop as opposed to the power lifting effort I do at the moment.

Enter first MTB marathon
Get entry to ssuk14
Ride coast to coast with my lad 6yo in July single speed
Trail divide

Just ride more & more new places.

Finish a bike race in a position that isn’t ‘last’.
Go on a bike ride that requires an overnight stop.
Go on a bike ride that requires an overnight stop without running water, or walls and a roof.
Ride the trails behind Nationwide in Swindon.
Be able to shift gears with my mind. Crack on Shim/sram!

GDMBR – hopefully in 2015

Lots more touring, I don’t care where.

I’d love to ride Pearl Pass from Crested Butte to Aspen.

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Ride for a week or two in Whistler.

Jump long / high enough to look down and appreciate what I’m doing. I believe the kids call it “hang time!”

do it! I did it in 2008. I made more progress in those 2 weeks than in 2 years at home. I’ll see it as a peak in my MTBing career.

Fight Crime of course…

I’d really like to ride with dolphins, ride along the beach in a cool sea breeze as the sun sets holding hands, ride in a hot tub, perhaps even ride in Africa… I’d really like to help those poor starving kids with all those flies in their eyes… By handing out Oakley MX ENDURO O FRAMES to keep those pesky flies away… because even they deserve a chance to look ENDURO too.
But most of all I’d really like to ride without getting caked in mud… For a change.

Bump into Hannah Barnes. on second thoughts, Mrs SS may be reading so I’m going to say the ‘new’ road gap in Chatel.

Ride in daylight. Getting very bored of riding at night.

some big mountain climbs.

(l’iseran, Galibier, etc)

a week off during nice weather to explore the local stuff i haven’t ridden.

ride with my dad and my nephews.

really get the hang of wheelies.

Ride from the channel to the Med. Via a great many vineyards.

Cycle across the Netherlands, sampling local substances, might not do too many miles per day 😉

learn gaps, go to france with my bike, do some bivvying, more racing, get fitter, more touring.
more bikes, generally.

I’ve never liked the idea of bucket lists. If swimming with dolphins is that good, then do it as often as you can, not just once so you can post the pictures on Facebook.

The fundamental premise of a bucket list is, as I understood it, that you’re unlikely to get more than one opportunity to do those things.

Anyhoo, playing by the new rules 🙂 here’s some of mine:

– Ride a multi-day long distance route (LEJOG or similar)
– Master wheelies/manuals [EDIT on a road bike too]
– Get confident off the ground
– Ride a mass-participation event in some big terrain (e.g. Etape du Tour)
– Ride with my kids
– Get to the end of a year and be happy with the amount of riding I’ve done