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Braking in berms
Farting in pedestrians faces.
Chatting to Switchbacks' clients when they are doing supergnarlcore trails and generally not 'concentrating enough' 🙂
Lots of loud and severe swearing when it gets a bit pear shaped. But probably worse is my inability to ride when anything's even slightly 'wrong' with the bike, my gear, my clothing, me, the trails, anything.
Braking through corners.
Not steering on loose/gravelly corners.
braking just before a jump or drop and then landing on my face
Hitting trees
Phil? Is hugging me your worst bike related habit?
yeah, apart from that i'm a superflyhighintheskyradtothepowerofawesome24/7 excellent rider....
as you well know.
😆 Techincally not a bad habit either.
My worst bike related habit is going like a bat out of hell straight from the off, ever tasted blood in your lungs??
I'm working on having the fitness to back up this strategy, or simply make sure I have a good pace setter.
Getting lost in the moment and deciding that I have time for one more loop before going home and that "she" won't mind and will understand when I am late home for lunch/dinner/anniversary/wedding/etc.
Too many to mention, but a few are:
Dragging rear brake
Braking during cornering
Stiffening up when it goes a teeny bit wonky
Mincing in the wet
Not trusting my tyres to grip in corners
Leaving bikes and bits all over the house
Leaving riding gear, gloves, lights, helmet, shoes etc by the door.
Tyre-buzzing.
Agressive freewheling (Pro2s).
Just generally being a child.
bushwacked, yours definately is looking down 🙂 its not as bad as it was but you need to constantly think about doing it. it'll become unconcious action in time
Too much braking, Need to let the bike roll more,
Heels aren't down enough,
Screaming (mostly on the tandem),
Not looking ahead enough,
Going too slowly and must be more confident,
only putting my right foot down , so always falling to the left (daft I know).
Rorschach - Member
Blowing my nose (finger on one nostril stylee) behind me without looking.
+1
Not so much of a problem on the MTB, but riding the Ronde you tend to hit lots of foreigners with your greenies......
Jamming the brakes on the second i see anything resemling or drop, jump or is just too steep.
Singing out loud,
Unclipping inside foot on bends and hanging a leg out, however on the same bend with flats feet stay firmly on the pedals.
Being to Cheerful
not cleaning bike after a ride untill 30 mins before the next and finding need new chain and brake pads.
Not having stock of chain or pads to go on the above ride.
Jedi - what is the most common bad habit you see?
I'll post what mind us after Jedi has told me on Monday
I guess looking at front wheel in times of stress...
Climbing into bed unwashed after a night ride topped off with a few beers!!
Dropping my tyre pressure to around 10psi to do very steep slimy steps then not pumping them back up again and getting a pinch puncher!! Must go tubeless
Jedi - I look forward to sorting it out 😉
Postierich - that's minging!
Breaking the poor things. If there was a bike revolution tomorrow, I'd be the first against the wall.
Eating too much.
And grabbing the front brake. 😳
I was right
Visualising crashing over the bars... then mincing out 😆
STW
looking at it when i have sex!
Destroying bikes.
I still can't believe I managed to pull a frame apart just by trying to pedal up a hill. Or that I broke another by blowing a tyre and taking out a tree. Or killing some forks (and a wheel) by riding into the side of a chalet at 25+mph. Or the snapped swingarm, the snapped bars and seatposts, the destroyed wheels (none recently thank goodness)....the list goes depressingly on.
Sounds supermaxstrengthardcore but in reality it's because I'm a clumsy heavy oaf.
20yrs of riding mountain bikes and I still can't get out of the habit of unweighting the front wheel when I go into a corner. I know it's going to be the end of me some day, but I just can't help myself. 🙄
Being scared of riding steps.
braking too much & over thinking things
Slamming the back wheel down when I land. Alright on table tops. Bad idea on rocky stuff....
Not looking ahead enough, especially when in the air.
Tweaking the front wheel unintentionally and thus landing all squiffy.
Blaming the bike/tyres/forks/geometry for all my uselessness!
Putting Mountain biking UK stickers on things in my house to annoy the wife, like inside my 3 year old daughters wardrobe, on her car numberplate etc... love seeing how long I get away with it before she spots them.
Drives her mental. Her car is currently sponsered by Nukeproof and Muc-off, 4 days so far ! 😆
Kev