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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
to get to thisROAD
intermingled with the odd bit ofBRIDLEWAY / NON-TECH XC
TECHNICAL XC / TRAIL
I like to call it RIDING BIKES
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 thisROAD
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)
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.
Weekly club night ride with mates and a pub at the end of it, involving Singlespeeds, some Strava woodland trails and the Chiltern Hills. Extending to bigger 30-40 milers at the weekend involving single track bridle ways woods and a bit of road with a tea & cake stop and ultimately a pub or two. The extreme is an annual trip to the Alps for some tech eyes on stalks guided downhill action on the bouncy bikes and trips to Afan and the Peaks.
I am Enduro curios .
I just Love riding bikes !!!!
After breaking my ankle biking this summer my wife wants me to practice a new style of riding know as - Flat Mountain Biking. Acceptable gradient limits for this type of riding are anywhere between -2 to 2%
Local woods and moorland for fitness and trail-centres for the fun and thrills.
singlespeed drop bar fat bike gravel enduro racing
unicycle xc and road riding (for Strava KOMs) mainly, though I do occasionally ride a mountain bike - I suspect at least half my recent mileage on a mountain bike has been in races though!
Round in circles.
To the pub.
To the cafe.
Natural trails for me. Don't do trail centres unless I take my young lad. Moorland trails for me if possible linked by country roads. Bridleways old railway lines etc, trying to finish on a downhill if poss.
Road - 30-60 miles almost always solo and weekly
MTB - every Tuesday with mates locally and SS in winter 3-4 hours
MTB gentle trails/trail centre green with my kids 10-15 miles couple of times a month
99% of my MTB is riding natural stuff
Hill reps [ hour ish] or a long ride on Sunday* 4+ hours in summer considerably less and less often in winter
*depending on whether i have kids or not
80-90% on the road, comuting, trainig rides, TT racing.
XC racing, longer ones mainly, 6-24hrs.
Occasional forrays into big steep trail riding but because of where I live that's only when I'm on holiday, nothing round here to ride (south Linconshire)