Things that are floating my boat at the moment:
1. Those little kicker jumps you get in singletrack which you can get a sweet bit of air off. Not too much, just enough to feel you've left the ground for a second or so...
2. And anything you can pump
Corners and pumpy things.
I like little rocky drop-off/jumps - basically a drop with a little bit of a rise/lip to pop off.
smooth landings and drifty turns
Climbs.
Steep, tight, hair pins.
Pumpy stuff is good too though.
The top, with a view. Anticipation of the descent.
Long flowing singletrack you can get a nice flow on. Can have jumps, drops and burns, but it all needs to a been designed a built well. Dont want much then.
boggy doubletrack across featureless moorland, under a slate grey sky.
Wildlife, and a feeling of remote wilderness.
rocks, rocks, rocks, rocks, rocks, rocks
big berms
flat/off camber drifty conrers
Step-up's
Short elevated NS sections where nececary to maintain speed/flow.
A view that gives me a sense of where i am in this fair land of ours.
Least favourite,
generic pine forest with no sense of where i am in this fair land of ours.
Pumpy stuff followed closely by drops.
Uphill - Switchbacks with intermittent technical sections.
Flat - Northshore.
Downhill - Drops and rock gardens.
It's always nice if there's room for a choice of mentalness.
Flow.
I'm currently liking a bit of gnarr or rad to the power of sick. Failing that, anything that's schweet or nadgery will be just fine thanks.
Dog poo. I just love getting it smeared all over me and the bike... Luckily I get some every other ride..
Cafes.
good riding buddys
DVD's - off the bike for at least 6 weeks following shoulder surgery 🙁
Shweet doubles.
Mutt Run at GT is just about perfect
Transfer jumps.
Either pumpy flowy stuff or proper evil, rooty, rutted, rocky technical nightmares. One extreme or the other 😀
I like flowy pumpable singletrack. But I also love big (2ft+) drops, but you rarely see them as people feel the need to civilise them 🙁
Cafe +1
Peace and quiet.