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  • The bimble thread.
  • fin25
    Free Member

    Big up all the bimblers!

    Who else, like me, eschews the radness and gnar?
    Who else, like me, prefers the chicken run to the 6ft drop off?
    Who else, like me, enjoys a four hour lap of Cannock?
    Who else, like me, rides a fatbike because they look so good going slow?
    Who else, like me, takes their thermos to the trail centre?

    If you answered yes to any of the above, then welcome, my friend, welcome to Bimbleton, population – slow.

    rOcKeTdOg
    Full Member

    just about to head out on the fat bike for a follow my nose ride, no general plan just go where the trails take me, the only time the bike will leave the ground is when i lift it over a gate

    RustySpanner
    Full Member

    Yay!

    We’re bimbling this afternoon.

    A radical session of cross discipline interval training has been abandoned in favour of a ride to the garden centre to laugh at the Christmas tatt.

    Then JJ’s for a bacon butty and home.

    Like the flask idea.
    Tartan?

    fin25
    Free Member

    Like the flask idea.
    Tartan?

    Bit too jazzy for me. Good old classic brown FTW.

    roverpig
    Full Member

    No flask and rarely visit trail centres, but I’m with you on the rest 🙂

    fin25
    Free Member

    Yeah, but you live in Scotland, the world is your trail centre.

    kayla1
    Free Member

    Flask of tea plus an extra one of tomato soup (or Big Soup if you want extra gnar) FTW!

    RustySpanner
    Full Member

    I much prefer a ride with a little distraction thrown in.

    Say a brewery, or a cheese makers.
    If you can combine any of those with a beach, then that’s bimblecore.

    I reckon any proper bimble should easily be rideable in Crocs?

    kayla1
    Free Member

    ‘Bimblecore’- I’ll give it three weeks until either Giant or Trek latch onto that one and release a new bike/standard/wheelsize on the back of it 😆

    We love a bimble up NCR 1 via Seaham prom to my OH’s mam and dad’s for Sunday dinner then a slow wheeze back home, bicycles (and knees) groaning and creaking under the extra weight of three stone of meat and seventeen veg!

    andybrad
    Full Member

    Yes, yes my friends. embrace the bimble…

    slimjim78
    Free Member

    Holy shit I hit every one of the OPs quota.

    Except Cannock. Why travel that far when I have perfectly good hillocks on the south coast?

    But seriously, what flask for trail riding bimbledom?.. I want the uber riding flask

    ninfan
    Free Member

    Adventure not adrenaline!

    slimjim78
    Free Member

    ‘Smell the pine, not inter-face with it!’

    kayla1
    Free Member

    What do we want? Tea and cake! When do we want it? About halfway through the ride if it’s not too much trouble! Please. Thank you.

    core
    Full Member

    There’s an awful lot to be said for bimbling. Most things cycling, and more so mountain biking are aimed at having the lightest, stiffest, fastest, raddest bike and kit going.

    But it’s not the be all and end all. For me, whilst I enjoy going flat out, measuring my pace against others and tackling ever more technical trails, that brings with it some pressure, and it’s pressure I’m often aimimg to avoid by biking, so I don’t want to go flat out.

    A bimble is the best thing possible for me mentally, I have pretty dark moods and spells of feeling down/conflicted/lost (I hesitate to say depression as I don’t think it really is and don’t want to trivialise it for genuine sufferers). Just grabbing the bike and heading out with the map and only a rough idea of where I’m going to go, is so liberating.

    Long live the bimblers!

    jimplops
    Full Member

    This afternoon I shall be bimbling with a full on snotty head.

    benp1
    Full Member

    I only bimble

    I love it

    slimjim78
    Free Member

    Heart rate above 160, you’re not going to last
    Speedo above 15, you’re going too fast

    fin25
    Free Member

    You have a speedo?

    You’re out!

    roverpig
    Full Member

    Yeah, but you live in Scotland, the world is your trail centre.

    This is a very good point 😀

    NormalMan
    Full Member

    But what tyres for bimblecore?

    fin25
    Free Member

    Doesn’t matter, as long as they weigh over a kilo each.

    slowoldman
    Full Member

    Yep a nice bimble with a backpack full of butties and pork pie for a nice sit down to admire the view. Pints at the end.

    NormalMan
    Full Member

    @fin25

    The Nates on my fatbike should be OK then 😉

    Lionheart
    Free Member

    Have become a bimbleler, usually a 29″ non sus, I’m sure I leave the ground on the odd occasion but others assure me that my bouncing inch or two doesn’t count.

    RustySpanner
    Full Member

    As long as your not doing it on purpose I think you’ll probably be fine.
    🙂

    Bimbler
    Free Member

    Raises hand, obvs

    MoreCashThanDash
    Full Member

    Thank god for this thread, I was beginning to think I was the only one on the forum who wasn’t embracing new standards, body armour and enduro flouro

    Pickers
    Full Member

    I’m in!

    NormalMan
    Full Member

    MoreCashThanDash – Member
    embracing new standards, body armour and enduro flouro

    That was me in about 1990 if it helps 😆

    ahsat
    Full Member

    My cross bike was my favorite and a bimble specialist (in my hands, no racing here thank you!)! Thieving scroats have stopped my bimbling! Bimbling doesn’t seem to work on a enduro trail masher!

    kcr
    Free Member

    Pootling, not “bimbling”.

    russl
    Free Member

    I tick all of those boxes except the fat bike! I thought I was last man on earth who takes pleasure in a hardtail, a paper OS map and a camelback loaded with pork pies and scotch eggs!Best thread ever. Bimblecore!!

    RustySpanner
    Full Member

    I think pootling might be a step up from bimbling?

    Not sure you can pootle with a takeaway hung on your bars?

    I’ve seen pictures of the Peaks Pootles on here.
    Some people actually had gloves on.
    I believe they have a picnic, which is nice, but it all looks a bit hardcore to me.

    roverpig
    Full Member

    Is there such a thing as hardcore bimbling? Can it still be a bimble if it’s below freezing or you’re being lashed with sleet, for example?

    NormalMan
    Full Member

    roverpig – Member
    Is there such a thing as hardcore bimbling? Can it still be a bimble if it’s below freezing or you’re being lashed with sleet, for example?

    I’d guess that’s the very essence of bimcore. Unlike other genres of bimbling, such as bimpacking or bimduro.

    RustySpanner
    Full Member

    Rain = puddles to jump in.
    Snow = fun.
    Sleet = another pint, pub fire, crossword.

    v666ern
    Free Member

    But seriously, what flask for trail riding bimbledom?

    Just perfect for a cuppa mid ride 8)

    slimjim78
    Free Member

    Feels like a club is brewing here guys..

    The Chicken Runners anyone?

    slimjim78
    Free Member

    V666ern, you are my new best friend!

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