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1. Flowing singletrack.
2. Riding new trails/places.
3. At the end of a ride, the satisfaction that I did go out and ride!
nearly losing it but bringing it back from the brink. Heart racing and inane giggling. Love it
Putting dry under crackers and warm clothes on when you've finished! 😆
post ride Banger & cake.
Dusty trail, tipping the bike into a bend, leaning over with the tyres squirming on the limit of adhesion, counter steering and firing out the bend.
Or
Muddy, tight loamy trail, zero grip. Surfing the bike across the mud wearing a big grin
Or
Descending at that perfect speed where you skim the top of the trail, wheels not quite in the air and not quite on the ground, not having to use the brakes or turn the cranks, totally in the zone of the trail.
Mountain biking is indeed great!
Zoning out.
That part on the ride when you suddenly realise that for the last 20mins you were thinking of absoloutely nothing apart from where the next turn is coming from and balancing the pain.
I think a lot of why I ride is for the total mind-wipe! The world is so much better after a good ride*.
*philosophy applies to more than one activity.
At the outset, the prospect of a long long ride ahead of me, during it, feeling my breath flow in and out like silk and that nothing matters except that moment, at the end, the used-muscle-feeling of all those miles, the tears in my skin from the brambles, salty sweat, being HUNGRY, enjoying how brilliant any food tastes...
pjm1974 - MemberFlowing singletrack +1, but also the feeling that I'm reenacting the speeder bike scene in Return of the Jedi when pedalling flat out through the woods...
...something you never grow out of.Thankfully, there's no Ewoks on my local woods.
^^^this
we used to have ewoks, but they disappered when the council gave in and didnt build the road.
being airbourne
What a nice thread 🙂
My absolute favourite thing is skating like a lunatic down a steep, loose, forest trial with at least one wheel locked up at all times. Only needs to be a few metres of trail to get me very giddy.
I'm getting worked up just thinking about it 😛
The very first bit of a d/h trail 😛
not sure about "flow" but it's great when you get round/over something and can't quite work out how.
The Tea and cake stop is what I ride for.
when your riding in a group and you all meet up at the bottom of a cracking descent - the buzz of adrenalin is awesome.
Then recounting the near misses or those taken down by "The Sniper" that's in every wooded area (ie when you crash for no real reason)
Overall I enjoy just getting out as often as I can,
Really nailing fast flowing singletrack, even better if it's the first time you ride it.
😆 😆 😆 😆
And grinning like an idiot at the bottom.
The times I'm smooth and unperturbed
Has anyone had a **** or had sex on a ride?
Surely someone must have?
*No not me before you ask. I would though if I rode with a female rider 😀
sharing the enjoyment with other riders 🙂
[b]Has anyone had a **** or had sex on a ride? [/b]
yes, a blow job and full sex a few times 🙂 That's great fun too! "Extreme sharing" perhaps ?
simonfbarnes - Member
Has anyone had a **** or had sex on a ride?
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Certain fastish downhills with plenty of bends where you click into a proper "flow" and it almost feels like surfing (to wierdos like me) except warmer and is lasts longer.
One particular DH section on my weekly night ride is perfect for this - through some woods (Unity Woods for any Cornwall locals) but almost like a mud toboggan run with slope sides. Best part of the entire ride.
Never going to score brave points so "flow" is where it's at for me.
Caning it for 2-3 hours and feeling as fresh as I did at the start, everything just comes together perfectly, the climbs, the descents and everything inbetween.
I would though if I rode with a female rider
that's you permanently uninvited from Bog Trotter rides 🙁
The silence between take-off and landing.
And, of course, the swoop, swoop, ca___rve.
That means you are panic braking in the air (unless you have silent hubs) and are therefore...
gay 😉
The best thing for me is stopping and sitting for a while and just letting the view you've discovered fill your soul and empty your mind.
learning a new skill.ive been riding years & only now am i able to learn new techniques & pull them off on the trail.
weather its a manual to clear a large muddy pool or my favourite a track stand .
My favourite thing on a ride, is my bike!
Cranking the 53/12 on a nice flat section of road
The days when everything just "clicks" and you seem to find all the right lines and your timing is spot on. When you "pop" off everything you can and seem to be a able to unweight the bike perfectly. Not so much about speed, more about finding the ride effortless.
Sadly these days are few and far between at the moment.
stopping after a decent climb to have a drink and take in the scenery
Where to start / end?
Riding continuously fast for sustained times
Cleaning a techy uphill
Appreciating spectacular views and atmosphere
Appreciating being out in the shoddy waether
Riding line a numpty, fast downhill just about getting away with not crashing all the time.
Getting away from it all / being self reliant
Getting from a to b (sometimes to c, d, e....to z)
Seeing things you wouldn't normally (views, wildlife, people)
Getting into a mechanical pickle and sorting yourself out or relying on others
Being the 'Good samaritan' for others who are lost / broken
For the next 6 months, a warm pub with a log fire and decent beer
OR
something fruity and warming from the hipflask shared with mates in the darkest woods, long after bed time
and the buzz when someone does something new. the smile goes right through me 🙂
Nice ride thro the woods and then a sweetie stop with my daughter
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Getting soaked through on a wet midweek ride with not a soul out on the trails. Perfect!
Doing something and thinking after "Christ! I didn't think I could do that!"
not seeing any people! I'm an antisocial ****er* and I love all the little bits of giggly, twisty, tongue lollingly fun singletrack to myself thank you very much.
*I have been known to mix with others now and then, but I can usually scare them off with my personality 😆
Love the feeling of being out in the hills, with no one else for miles, just savouring the views, followed by a sweet descent that has been hard earned.
In ten years of riding I have never ridden with anyone, and I never will. Alone is bliss.
I like it when i turn back into my street covered in mud,sweat,blood,cow sh*t,etc after a really good ride and see all the miserable sunday car cleaners,grass cutters etc,makes me feel all smug inside. Lifes too short, ride a bike!
I like it when i turn back into my street covered in mud,sweat,blood,cow sh*t,etc. Lifes too short, ride a bike!
Or partake in some sort of highly intense, gory colonic irrigation with a farm animal.
I love the feeling of just being out there! freedom. I like it when I can nail something better than I have done before and I am getting "better" in some way. but I've reached an age where I don't care and it's a nice day out on my bike and it's all good. I love being faster than 19 yr olds on heavy FS overkill bikes though. I've started just wandering up mountains and leaving the bike at home. I just love the escape, the exercise and the feeling of free will. It's not about the bike? true.
Ideally, its getting out on the bike and having fun with old friends and new ones. If it's b y myself, then it's best when I challenge myself to ride something I've not tried or cleared before and nailing it - NB. This does not always happen (as the scars will testify)!
Love the feeling of being out in the hills, with no one else for miles, just savouring the views, followed by a sweet descent that has been hard earned.
+1 😀 This is why I love riding in the Long Mynd so much. If you do it by yourself it's so peaceful when you eventually get to the top. Trail centres just can't compare.
ooo the long mynd, ace riding, lovely views and the climb up carding mill valley on a singlespeed is vomit inducing 😆
haha I've only done that on my easiest gear. mtb is properly singlespeeded now so my next trip there will be interesting 😐