fooooooooooookkkiiiiiiiinnnnnnneeeeeeeelllllllll

John Wayne!

Thanks for the tip. A friend of mine is always hitting her knees off the top tube but never know how to tell her politely other than 'you really need to work on your attack position'

it's bike riding not war

When your friend shows you his favourite trail, don't try to smoke him on your first run down it, because there's a reason he slowed down just before the blind turn.

"Don't get cocky, kid" [Han Solo]

As a reminder to self once I've just cleaned something I don't, to keep my *hit together for the next section 😕

If in doubt…………….. bottle out.

I ride alone a lot and so far it has saved me from spending anytime in hospital.

PEDALPEDALPEDAL!! ( © Worldclassaccident)

Pain is temporary. Failure is forever.

Danielsan… look eye!

Mr Miyagi

Stay Loose

Chicken Wings

WTF ?!

'it'll be fine'
'give it some beans'

"…water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend"

Attack!

Look at the penalty for failure dude…

No one ever died from sore legs (Lance Armstrong).

Things'll be alright in the end. If they're not alright it ain't the end.

What's the worst that can happen?

Never knowingly outminced

Earn the bike.

Works well if you have a £3000+ dandyhorse.

My favourite is

Feel the fear and do it anyway.

relevant to lots of things in life really.

Flow like the water;
following a channel down a chalky hill a lot more grippy than the typical green chalkiness outside of the channel

"Stay on target!"
"Pump it"
"Leave the brakes alone, they only slow you down"
"You're in the wrong gear" (only applies when one singlespeeder overtakes another on a long slogging climb).
"Skids are for kids"

'**** that shit'
'We go up, we go down this is bull shit yar'

ooOOoo

Chicken Wings
WTF ?!

Means flap your elbows like your a chicken, helps keep your arms loose and in the "attack" position. A mate picked it up after he had some guiding in the lakes.

"skids are for kids."

"gravity works."

"just one more little tap over this hill."

In aviation there is a saying:

"its better to be on the ground wishing you were in the air than in the air wishing you were on the ground"

Since I'll be spending the next two weeks in a bike park someplace foreign learning to jump I think this could apply as well! 😉

Also:

A big rock is not an obstacle, its a smooth grippy bit of trail to ride over!

Drink a pint of concrete and harden the **** up!

"whats the worse that could happen"

Doesn't work for me as I have far to good an imagination and my brain supplies worryingly graphic suggestions, which then distracts me and almost garantees I'll be hugging a tree or a rock in the next 10sec!