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I always though a drop was just that, a vertical step of varying height, but the way people speak these days, I think they're actually referring to short, steep slopes.
Why?
So they can convince themselves they style it off drops?
post fail. (For the record the forum strips spaces to ASCI art doesnt work).
hahaha....cos their fat....
I think it was when 'good fun' became RAD !!
surely if you don't touch the steep slope on the way down its a drop, if you ride it with wheels on the ground and role down it, its a steep slope.
wasn't it when the generation appeared who hadn't served an apprenticeship on road bikes with dropped handle bars a.k.a. "drops"?
since bikes got faster; with slacker angled and more/better suspension
its more fun to fly off the top of a slope than just roll down it
Since they invented trail centres?
about the same time that 6inch sub 30lb £3k bikes became popular for middle management to ride 'mountains' on.
When I was a laaaaaad, steep slopes that you can get air off were 'fades'.
I dont think its to do with 'airing' down a slope that could also be rolled.
To me a drop is anything that you have to have both wheels in the air in order to make it safely over without falling off.
Any form of slope that its possible to roll over is not a drop.
It just got me wondering if my defination of a drop was always wrong, and maybe I've been doing 20 foot drops without realising it for years. 😉
Drop necesitates wheels off the ground. If you can roll it then it is a steep slope.
Drop necesitates wheels off the ground. If you can roll it then it is a steep slope.
+1
But my mate can roll down slopes I feel it's safer to jump off - so his slope is my drop?
But my mate can roll down slopes I feel it's safer to jump off - so his slope is my drop?
I think you're talking about a 'slop' 😆
'Dropping' is when your wheels come off the ground, a 'drop' is something you can only do by leaving the ground. So you can drop down a steep slope, but a steep slope isn't a drop. A fade has less gradient. That's what I reckon anyway...
Probably around the same time that MTB'ing anywhere other than Lincolnshire became 'all mountain'.
jonb +1 🙂