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There is something satisfying about the brief silence you get when your bike gets airbourne on some singletrack or on a drop. Some people like the clicky click of a freehub.
What's your favorite bikey sound?
the giggle of slightly overcooking it on a tricky bit at speed and getting away with it.
silence
If my bike is making a noise it is generally a bad thing like a creaking bottom bracket or squealing brakes... Silence is golden and that is my favourite bikey sound 😀
That angry noise you get under heavy cornering when your tyres are working really hard for grip.
Definitely the sound of riding fast through a big puddle of that really thin ice you get with no water directly under it. You know the type I mean...
One of the squadron has very bad Trail Tourettes. He is also the slowest of us.
Always fun to wait at the end of a singletrack section and hear a stream of expletives coming down the trail. You can even guess exactly which section he's on by the timing of the profanity!
I agree on that silence as you get some air, though. I also love the crackle of riding on slate, somewhere like Mach.
That angry noise you get under heavy cornering when your tyres are working really hard for grip.
Works for me too.
It's all about really loud shocks, like roco's and old van rc's. Flying through a rough bit and you get that ace squishy noise!
Nope, you're all wrong...
It's an old valve amp, preferably 2x12, nicely cooking, with the neck pickup on a 1970's strat being made to cry!
Just listen to Stevie Ray Vaughan's version of Little Wing for a good reference point.
The voom when you land in a nice steep landing, and the braap from a hard corner.
The bzzzzzzzwwwwwwwwwwwwhhhhhhhhpppppppppppppppppppppppppp off the lip off trails (bmx style).
Dunno about anyone else but on a MTB its best to have everything totally silent except from the SNIKKK! of a positive gear change.
Its nicer to be able to hear the wind or the croaky warble of red grouse, or grasshoppers, y'know, aw that nature stuff....
I'm with you on that Rorschach. Comp 3s on dusty trails. Lovely.
best:
bottoming the tyre out on the rim and not hearing that snakebite hiss.
worst:
that snakebite hiss. game over.
Silence on the moors apart from the call of the Curlew, closely followed by the satisfying 'click' of SPD/cleat interface.
Mavis has a valve amp on his bike. Awesome 😀
'ting ting ting ting ting...'
Little bits of gravel pinging off your downtube. Works best with a steel frame and in summer when the little bits of gravel are freeeeeee.
Works best with a steel frame and in summer when the little bits of gravel are freeeeeee.
even better on a nice fat titanium downtube 🙂
hope floating rotors ticking as they cool down.
The original Mini's howling when wet, I still remember those ramblers' petrified faces 😀
near silence, or at least just the buzz of tyre on earth is good.
proper gone so high you've had time to think about how far away the ground is, had a quick peek to spot your landing (well approach might be a better word), crickey i'm still in the air type silence can be rather un-nerving.
in a good way 🙂
the screams of ffffffffffffffffffffffff*********************++++++++++k that was good!!!!!
when you go a little bit to quick and then feel a rush of wow that was awesome whilst your butt is still twitching looking back up that decent you just nailed 😆