[Closed] What type of riding do most STW's actually do?

1) Niche-core

2) Roadie-hard-man-miserabilising

Road, TT and cyclocross. Not been on a mountain bike for nearly a year.

Road, and old school XC.

All
DOWNHILL / FREERIDE
TECHNICAL XC / TRAIL
BRIDLEWAY / NON-TECH XC
ROAD (on a mountain bike that is)
😀

Bike

This is a cycling forum?

I do some downhill badly, a wee bit of road, no dirt jumps or bmx or owt like that- so mostly trail/technical xc, just because downhill's a pain without uplifts and a wee bit limiting, you can't do it all the time. Very occasionally an oldschool xc ride, they're lovely but I can't do them often or they lose the charm

SS, Geared, Mtb, Road,CX.
Ride anything that these will go on

The reason behind asking as I think there is a good spread of people who enjoy all types of riding on here whereas I couple of people I know (both on and off the forum) disagree.
I also guessed I might have some interesting answers. 🙄
I lurk a lot more than I post on here and find it a hugely entertaining forum. I believe it maybe my most visited website!

i do bridleway/xc/trail.
rarely ride anything that a cx bike couldnt manage, despite this i naturally have a 130mm fs bike with those old fashioned 26" wheels.
note:at no point did i claim to ride them well . . .

you missed a group...........pootling.

Spend a lot of time talking about riding from what I can see 😉

Most? Commute

What i enjoy? Is this like a league system? Can you get promotion and relegation based on last weeks ride? Bit of a division 2 pretender at the minute.

Xc, trail centres and bridleways. 120mm Hardtail.
I most enjoy twisty woodland singletrack.

I've given up categorising riding to any degree of detail. I like things simple - I go mountain biking. A typical ride for me somewhere like FoD off-piste will involve every type of terrain from road, bridleway, fire-road, singletrack, doubletrack, steep DH stuff, jumps, drops etc.

Slow out of breathe sort of riding.

Enjoyment levels are probably inverse to what I do the most. Road a lot (quick and convenient mid-day), trail after that and then DH. Who doesn't love DH, but of course time spent on bike is actually quite short although thrilling. But yeah, like most, I love it all.

Race, race me, race my mates, race the clock, race the environment, race the bus, race the cars, race the dogs, race babies, race chickens, race race race.. thats all i do... 😆

Who doesn't love DH,

Me,

DH is only a means of getting to the next climb.

I 'mostly' commute as I spend more time riding my commuter to & from work than any other bike but I (dare I say it) enjoy a good blast round a trail centre red/black route on my 2 wheeled sofa.

TBH I just consider myself a cyclist rather than a pigeonhole. 😉

Mincecore Lite

Passive/aggressive bimblecore.

Basically riding very slowly on brideways, paths & the odd trail centre

Likes:
Long rides, getting lost, big hills, picnics, singletrack, interesting places, huge skies, quiet roads, touring, track, BMX & cake.

Dislikes:
Loads of techy stuff, gps, jumps, fords, competitive idiots & fig rolls.

what type of riding from the categories below do you do enjoy / ride THE MOST?

These are two different questions. The riding I enjoy the most is not the same as the riding I do the most.

Enjoy:
TECHNICAL XC / TRAIL
DOWNHILL / [s]FREERIDE[/s] - easy downhill. I'm no downhiller by modern standards
ROAD
BRIDLEWAY / NON-TECH XC

Do:
ROAD
TECHNICAL XC / TRAIL
BRIDLEWAY / NON-TECH XC
DOWNHILL / [s]FREERIDE[/s]

road commute (fixed)
road riding with club
road race (E1234 masters and Cat4)
mtb trail centres - will try anything
track
coaching

No CX but have been tempted

Is there a turbo category? Does that count? If so, in order of frequency...

Turbo (I don't get out nearly enough 🙁 )
Road (pretty much all local riding, occasional club ride, TTs)
Trail (mostly trail centre weekends away now)
DH (very rarely now, the odd week in the Alps)

Would like to try some CX racing. Really can't be bothered with bridleway/non-tech xc these days. I have no time for bimbling!

stilltortoise, yes you are right, I could have put the question(s) much better (although not sure if it would make the answers received any different / less entertaining)

Gheycoremincelite™

Natural XC trails & B/ways. Really enjoy being in the middle of nowhere.
Can't really be arsed with trail centres, always feel like I've got to fly round like a man possessed. (which is the whole idea innit?)

Trail riding I'd guess I'd class it as, be it natural or centre. Bit of road as well. I just like riding bikes.

Pootle-cross
Mince-gnar
Bimble
Shredding the gnat

That about covers it.

In times gone by I would have classed myself as a DH rider, however these days I'm not too fussed about categories and just enjoy riding my bikes.

I've started to ride a fair amount of road, which I quite enjoy due to the lack of faff and ease I can get out. It's also a nice alternative to running.

MTB wise, it ranges for mucking about on short unofficial DH runs and sketchy jumps to trail centres to days out in the peaks. I definietly prefer descending and jumping (badly) to climbing. I like natural techy stuff as much as I like the brains out fun you can have on berms and I like natural, flowy single track too.

Basically, I just like riding my bike.

Anything where the trail comes alive.

+ one for pootling

haven't got the legs for mincing

Ffion and Emmeline interpreted my description of what I tend to ride as "Enduro".

So I'm saying that! 😉

(although in reality, it's more non-race XC on natural trails)

IR XC jey boy 🙂

Mostly generic XC. Nothing too techincal usually in all honesty. Bit of Sinwley/Afan/Llandegla sometimes.

Whatever comes before pootling in the pootling, mincecore, gheycorelite line up

In order of enjoyment commute, road and mountain bike (dh is for kids or the overweight)

Technical XC/trail (I'm no racer mind).

On an aluminium hardtail - as least niche as it gets.........

Your error is trying to define boundaries where there are none. I ride bikes, mostly off road.

satchm00 - Member

Slow out of breathe sort of riding.

this is mine too - with some out of control downhill sections thrown in

buzz - true but also some people prefer a pootle on bridleways whereas others throwing themselves down a hill (I know many like both, me included but overall I would go for techy over bridleway riding and I am just trying to see if there is a consensus from the STW massif!)
Anyway gonna finish work shorltly, then off for a ride (techie xc 😉 ) before the pub and back to read the humorous replies received on this thread.....

XC is what I prefer. Bridleways and roads inbetween and when it's been raining a ton. Go up Cannock about once a month in the summer, less so in the winter.

KOM hunting - what else is there 🙄

Mainly right hand, also sometimes bikes.

If I ride a loop that's just 'XC' on my MTB, is it 'Technical XC' when I ride it the next week on a CX bike? A sort of genuine Q, the terrain and bike makes the grade?

I'm not into genre-types, I just ride places where the trails are fun for some reason. Flow, attention to lines, interest, sections I can only clear half the time, pretty places, anything. My type of riding is just getting outdoors and feeling like I've been somewhere on a bike when I'm never going anywhere really.

Some of this

ROAD

BRIDLEWAY / NON-TECH XC

TECHNICAL XC / TRAIL

Commuting mainly.
Some road riding at the weekend
The odd quite hilly mountain bike ride
Some cyclocross
Pissing about, riding to shops, exploring, pretending I'm still young would cover the rest.

Is bumbling about more gnar than pootling ? If so, that...

All of them except for road.

Technical XC/Trail.

I would love to DH...but my magnetic type qualities with the ground and trees is quite a problem.

All of them except for road.

Same for me. If I have to go any distance on the road I'll take me car.

I am trying hard to move away from XC crashing tumbling and injuring type riding to to simple XC riding along and not crashing, BUT my friends have different ideas.

Generic XC, woodland singletrack for preference.

Singlespeed in the winter.

Some racing - 12 hour stuff (solo/pairs), the odd XC race.

Lots and lots of road the past couple of years, with a couple of weeks riding big European mountains each year.

Road. Shit loads of road races, reliability trials, sportives and audax.
Cyclocross, just racing it though.
Mountainbiking. Day rides and a few races.

Currently loving long long road rides on the 29er knobblied up.

Bimbling along until I get to a known Strava segment, then it's riding like a deranged lunatic until the end of the segment.

Mostly XC/Trail with some technical stuff.

Mostly bikes....occasionally the sofa.

Some of this

ROAD

to get to this

BRIDLEWAY / NON-TECH XC

intermingled with the odd bit of

TECHNICAL XC / TRAIL

This

intermingled with occasional attempts to avoid coming last in my class in the local MTBO league.

mine is mostly riding around like a rickshaw driver ATM 😀

Hardcore pub-to-pubcross by the muddiest route possible using the oldest and simplest kit to hand.

BRIDLEWAY / NON-TECH XC

or 90's style XC as I know it...

I would mostly class my riding as BP, or Between Pubs.

Edit - sorry, thats [i]technical[/i] BP, obviously.
Seems to get more technical as the ride progresses.

2nd Edit - I should read the other posts above...
Rogerthecat has the right idea. About pubs and cycling.
Rogering cats is just plain wrong however.

2nd rate rider in a 5th rate outfit 😉

Being out on the hills on my own or messing about in the woods

DH/FR with a very occasional bit of trail centre and the very very rare xc ride at somewhere like the Long Mynd. I get my weekly miles in on the road bike then have fun on the mtb on days off. Oh and bmx at the skatepark sometimes if I cba to drive somewhere to ride. Or dirt jumps if I only want a short drive. We're soon moving to a new place which has a 2 acre field, I should be able to build my own dirt jumps there so I'll mostly be riding that as of a few months!

Anything I can get at the moment...

Almost all of my riding is mountain singletrack (and forest service roads to access trails), ranging from fairly easy to very technical (which I do with a varying degree of success) and, of course, the occasional sections of "hike-a-bike".
Don't ride on the road---drivers here scare the crap out of me.

All mountain and (gravity) enduro.

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And loads of roadbiking (on a road bike)

@wordnumb - everyone needs a hobby

Overbiked 650b coil shock trail centre riding, above and underneath mountain, horizontal enduro lite, mini DH rigid night riding, 24" DJ dwarf tossing, cyclocross chainsaw juggling, sportif dogging, naked road riding with crocodile clips on my nuts.

The usual stuff.

My CX bike on unsuitable terrain like technical XC, my CX bike on the road, my CX bike on bridleways etc.

120 XC HT on XC races, technical XC bridleways, everything that it will take!

Pissing about

I love organic bridleway stuff.... loads of local loops, and planned all day bridlecore shizz.
I have a 150 bouncer and a 120 steel hardtail, and interchange according to mood and how bad my hip is hurting this week.
I love red graded trail centres....I love going fast on fast easy stuff, and I like it when I can cure my constipation on the rocky stuff, so think Penmachno, Marin, Mabie, Kirry etc, but I'm frit of big drops and woodwork..... there, I've said it. I don't think I've ever really ridden that sort of woodland loamy stuff everyone raves about, as most of the bridleways round here are millstone grit and dogshit. Which is ace.
I have been known to enjoy places like 'Degla too.

Mostly messing about in the woods like a big kid.

BRIDLEWAY / NON-TECH XC

Where exactly has the idea come from that bridleways = not technical? While some bridleways clearly are flat, fire-road-tastic horse motorway, it's a sweeping generalisation and just not true.

Commuting
"Racing" (triathlons)
Training for above
Random mtb or cross rides.
Touring, very occasionally.

Natural xc trails
Long slow road rides

riding??? on a bike? are you serious? I might scratch it...

Generally the wrong bike in the wrong place at the wrong time 🙂

Cyclocross racing, everything else is just training, apart from the singlespeed mtb pootles which are just for sheer pleasure and the wonderment of where everything came from/started.