[Closed] cycling downhill is so dull dull dull

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loser!

brain in upside down

must be a reality inversion. 😉

See where you're coming from... but I do relish the descents at the end of the climbs - they have to be earned!

I agree, all the great climbs on dartmoor are memorable

the climbs are rewarding, only when you have killer DH at the end of it!!!

Your doin it wrong. So best to just walk down in future.

i don't like travelling up on chair lifts, but i don't like descending on fireroads either.......

but, then i'm not really a fan of bike parks and their man-made trails. much prefer the natural stuff.

edit.... reminds me. i used to ride down in southern germany with one guy who used to say don't ride down what you can't ride up. he was ****ing talented, though. learnt a lot from him with regards to technical biking.

Trolling? Surely!

So, if you could only ride one more trail, are you honestly saying that it would be a climb?...

Fair play if your answer is, "yes".

cycling downhill is so dull dull dull

You're doing it wrong then...

I'm glad there's riders like you.

Frees up the downhills for riders like me! 🙂

YOu do know you get the same view if you walk up?

Agree that the climbs are rewarding - but at the right time of day (when theres no walkers about) - the downhill bits are hyoooooooj fun 😀

the up is how you pay for the down

uplifts all the way.

Uplifts, Push up, ride up....who cares.

As long as people are getting involved in the sport.

Downhilling is a lot of teenagers route into the sport as it looks cool to them. Funnily enough several of the youngsters at my local DH course are realizing that riding XC gets them fit for DH races whilst improving their bike handling.

No need to marginalize ourselves. All MTBing is good.

Dair, if you asked that question on a roadie forum, pretty much everyone would give an answer that would involve one of the classic climbs, with a summit finish.
Now MTB descending is great fun, but there's still some of us that have the same mentality to offroad climbing (even if we're not outstanding at it)... so yes I would choose a climb, especially with a nice view, and maybe a shrubbery 🙂

I like the challenge of a climb and then there is the deferred gratification ... 😛

uplift up ride down, ride to uplift ride down... quite easy for me

You hill climbing likers must be on one extreme of mountain biking just as those amongst us who only like going down hill are at the other extreme.

I must be right in the middle because I like climbing and going down hill

Uphill due to exercise, views, achievement

Downhill due to speed, adrenalin, danger

[b][troll]If you only like one of those you are only half a mountain biker IMO.[/troll][/b] 😀

much prefer the natural stuff

If you've got time/energy to 'look at the view' you're not climbing, just riding a bike uphill 😉

Uphill can be rewarding, but usually not challenge to anything other than fitness. Downhill is a challenge to skill, or I'm not going fast enough...

Now flat, that's fitness and skill!

[b]yeay flatland riding[/b]. 8)

I like both, a singletrack climb and then a swooping singletrack descent is perfect.

If you've got time/energy to 'look at the view' you're not climbing, just riding a bike uphill

I find as my head lolls to the side, no energy left, sometimes I catch a glimpse into the distance... Does that count?

Switch to fixed wheel, it makes the downhills more exciting again 😈

I find as my head lolls to the side, no energy left, sometimes I catch a glimpse into the distance... Does that count?

as long as you've got little white dots spinning in front of your eyes and the taste of blood in your mouth 😈

Being up high is the best - everything else is a bonus and usually a surprise.

had a guest stay with us in the alps who wouldnt buy a lift pass, rode UP EVERYTHING. right to the top. then descended until he met roads, and went down on the road to the start of the next climb.

he was proper odd tho.

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Uphill can be rewarding, but usually not challenge to anything other than fitness.

that's a load of shyte then isn't it. try riding up technical, boulder-strewn climbs and say it's just fitness?

mountain biking up, down, flat is all good in my book.

morpheus only ever trolls

Up, along , down, repeat. It's all good.

If there's an uplift, I'll use it just to get more downhill practice time.

i just find i get the views after a nice comfy and relaxing uplift. then i can enjoy riding along abit till i get to the downhill

but each to their own..

Technical Climbing requires more skill, strength and stamina. DH requires a bit less skill, strength and stamina but much bigger balls and no family. Jacobs ladder. Most could ride down it few could ride up it. I get more of a buzz when I have cleared all the technical cimbs on my usual route the when I do the descents as the thing that stops me doing the drops and gaps is more my brain than skill.

I do relish the descents at the end of the climbs - they have to be earned!

Always wondered where this all too often regurgitated pile of bollox originated from.. Shite XC (Oh no, we can't call it that anymore, it's just not cool enough) Magazines?

So if I push my 42lb DH race bike for an hour to get to the top of a good descent have I earned it any less than someone twiddling their pedals way to the top on a 15lb lighter bike with suitable tyres/gearing for all round use?

what about uplifts? most adult DH riders work ,earning money they choose to spend on getting themselves and bike to the top to do continuous runs all day!

What about sectioning DH tracks? I'll sometimes ride the same two or 3 corners for an entire afternoon on my own never once riding uphill, oh, no we can't have that, can we? and yet many riders these days are happy to spunk the best part of £100 on a skills course that will achieve the excact same result.

I'd love to take anyone who says "descents must be earned" to Ft Bill (or any other uplifted DH track) to do just 6hrs of DHing and see if they'd change that horribly blinkered outlook on other riders and the riding they do.

I rode down Walna Scar-y last night and [b]dull[/b] it definitely wasn't 🙂

Climbs are fine so long as they're well graded and buttery smooth. These perverts who keep putting tech obstacles in the climbs at trail centres are jut wasting resources that could be better spent making the descents better.

Climbs are fine so long as they're well graded and buttery smooth

pardon me, but that sounds hideous 🙁 I like to have a challenge 🙂

You wouldn't make any friends putting corners that are far too tight for the majority of riders, or obstacles that you're going to hit with zero momentum in a descent. So why is it OK in a climb? Uphill "features" should never be on the main riding line.

OP - Are you a soulless, Dull bastard or simply Trolling?

I can’t say I enjoy climbing, I view it as a necessary evil, I do have a sense of achievement when I scale a tough climb (tough by my standards and probably nobody else’s)…

But honestly Descending is the fun bit, the primary reason I ride MTBs is that it’s fun…

If the only reason you ride a bike is the enjoyment of strain, pain and willy waving when you get to the top 10 seconds faster than everyone else then why bother with MTBs? Stick to roads and nadralone…

Uphill "features" should never be on the main riding line

I was thinking of 'natural' trails where you just have to ride whatever there is 🙂

I ride for the thrill, not for fitness/exercise. Descending thrills me. Climbing's a chore. When I get to the top of a climb I normally think "thank fvk for that", rather than "wow, that was an achievement".

Endorphins from shagging your legs on the climb
Adrenaline from scaring yourself on the downs
Sense of acheivment from cleaning ups or downs
It's all good

[i]Uphill "features" should never be on the main riding line[/i]
Cobblers! Trail centres can be introductions to mountain biking for lots of people, there's "features" on ROWs so may aswell get used to them, and it's more fun and will help improve your skills.

yep, up is the new down.