Not “proper mountain bikers” – Page 2 – Bike Forum

lloydmintsauce · 2020-04-19T07:46:54Z

Hi, not usually one to post. I’m a long time stalker first time poster. I Grewup, up north and spent my youth mountain biking in the 90’s. I moved south with the military and I live on Dartmoor where I do a lot of my riding as a civie now. I love riding and it’s pretty much all I want to talk about. The increasing Snobbery within mountain biking really grinds my gears though. Kit and bikes is one thing but I have heard and read many times that you can’t be called a mountain biker if you live down south as your not near mountains. Something I have always seen as nonsense especially as the riding where I live is the best kept secret in the UK. Try to define a mountain and you will struggle as no definitive explanation exists according to the dictionary it’s not measured in height but gradient. In the UK its accepted that above 600m is a mountain so bike park wales isn’t on a mountain. In the USA the measurement is only 251m! As Marin county is considered the birth place of mountain biking shouldn’t we follow Americas lead to be a “proper mountain biker”? To all those that believe you need to live near mountains to be a “proper mountain biker” please answer me this. If a man, woman or any other non binary being sit outside by a lake trying to catch fish for the day with a rod reel and tackle but they catch nothing is that person fishing or just sitting? Sorry rant over.

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Mountain’ biking for me at the minute is a local wood with around 20m vertical slope.

Blimey, you mustn’t half G out at the bottom

Posted : 20/04/2020 11:39 pm

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Kinda bizarre post tbh , Brendan Fairclough , Ollie wilkins and co live in one of the flattest parts of the uk and it dosent seem to inhibit them. I on the other hand live 45 mins from the tweed valley 1 hr 45 from Dunkeld and 2 hours from fort william.
That said you might probably be faster than me down Innerleithen IXS trail .

It makes no difference to be honest , if you can ride a bike you can ride a bike.

Posted : 21/04/2020 12:29 am

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The increasing Snobbery within mountain biking really grinds my gears though. Kit and bikes is one thing but I have heard and read many times that you can’t be called a mountain biker if you live down south as your not near mountains.

'You ok hon?'

Posted : 21/04/2020 12:44 pm

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