[Closed] Do you ride down long runs of steps?

Love riding steps 🙂 Difficult to tell how steep from a photo. As others have said, careful in the wet on the wooden bits and watch out for scooped out steps. Seat down, weight low, give it a go 🙂

Good fun riding the steps at the end of this trail... got a corner wrong once, melted my glove against the wall

Some stairs on a local route on my old FSR.

Steps are rubbish!

There was a steep set of steps near where I used to live and the week before I moved I psyched myself up to ride them.
actually - [url= http://www.picturesofengland.com/user/103889/pictures//England/Hampshire/Hilsea/Hilsea_Lines ]these[/url]
BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR done. Crap and pointless.

Seat down. Arse off the back. Heels down. Relax and go for it, let the bike do the work. If you fall off, it's nothing to do with me!

Honorablegeorge ^
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Honorablegeorge ^
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Bet you wish you'd gone first!

medoramas

wooden steps?

Not a big fan myself, give me proper stone ones and I'm happy. You need a bike you can sit low and [i]behind[/i] the bars, something you feel perched on is not the right tool. Stalling is a worry but too much speed and you won't get the timing right and be buckaroo-ed off. OPs pic looks OK but if steep and the steeps high enough and it'll be a mare.

kendo954 - Member

i have rode bigger sets of steps, problem with those and some i have local is the wooden edges, if the gravel behind them wears down and the steps are uneven its a dodgy ride

I was halfway down a set of local steps when I discovered that some of them had washed out completely- the railway sleepers that made up the step edge were just hanging in the air. Still no idea how I rode that outtbh, pure luck probably.

I like steps, not so keen on railings though!

Where are those steps?
they look ace

[b]ndthornton[/b] They are in Torquay. Between Ellacombe and Babbacombe, long footpath (yeah, yeah...) - easy to spot on OS Map. 😀

Honorablegeorge ^
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• looks at holidays in Finale Ligure •

Awesome terrain in that video honourablegeorge.

Yes is the answer.

yes, but not exciting - maybe my FS 26er just makes things too easy

That's why I ride them fully rigid:-)

Marin, you're gnarrrrly!

if you're clipped in....... go for it

If you're not...just drop your heels (and laugh at the disco slipper owners on your way down).

I am irrationally terrified of riding steps. No idea why.

Grrrrrrrr!!!!!

Always wanted to go Finale Ligure. That video makes me want to go more. May have to look at there instead of Verbier

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This is a run of 211 steps [url= http://is.gd/zXTSPm ]down the side of a dam[/url] at the bottom of one of my regular rides. It's completely rideable but it's more of an exercise in testing how well your fillings are attached than any form of fun. Good for checking your suspension setup though.

Intimidating. Not difficult, not fun. But obligatory.

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Normally, BUT.....

There are some around that are just not worth it. In the back of a park in Cockermouth there was a set that the spacing just didn't work and every time the front dropped the back was rebounding. Lasted 3 before bailing into the bushes as I recall

Loving all this 'stairs porn'. Brrrrrp, oh yes!

I find controlling speed is the main thing on longer sets. Perhaps start halfway down, so that if you can't effectively use your brakes you will still be sub-death speed by the end of the set.

slowoldman - Member

It's not against the rules to walk through the bit you don't like the look of then get back on.

It absolutely is against the rules to do this.
Do not listen to this man, he is obviously a cyclocrosser and therefore a deviant.

BigJohn - Member
The TOC h trail on Cannock chase is built for wheelchairs and has a brilliant set of 30 steps hacked into one bit of hillside. Very good fun for taking strangers down as each step is a different height and width and the erosion means you have to go up a bit before each down. It has a bit of a non-pc name too which makes it more fun.
No way could you get down it in a wheelchair.

Those are horrible, I've ridden them a couple of times, first time I was clipped in and damn near shat myself.

It's when one foot becomes unclipped that the fun starts. Especially as they start off with front wheel going down before back, then both down together, followed by a random selection.

It depends on the 'wavelength'.

This thread has ruined me - 51 years old no talent just 45 years of blindly riding down steps on motorcycles and MTBs and never considered it to be a technical challenge and now I am s**ting myself about the next time I have to ride down some! You see this is what thinking does to you it prevents you just doing stuff! Thanks people....

"Do you ride [b]down[/b] long runs of steps?"

or [b]up[/b]?

Commentary by Filip Polc at Red Bull Monserrate Devotees 2012

Get the next new wheel size and riding up will be a doddle 🙂