[Closed] 10 things every mountain biker should have done?

#2 wading barefoot through mel****er pushing/carrying your bike.

Does it suggest checking the QR is in the closed position?

Done 'em, with the exception of ride to the sea.

More seriously, take your child out on your bike (preferably on an alpine downhill), teach your child to ride, build your child's bike - they seem like omissions.

#4 Unfreezing the rear mech with yer ain pish.

meet up in a remote car park for a dawn duel with a fellow STWer after an online argument about maintenance schedules

Broken some bones in a crash.

Nice list - only missing a race. I agree with the broken bones too!!

Ride across a frozen Loch 🙂

Nothing there really about shared experiences with others, other than the race, which funnily enough is the only one I haven't done.

*Participated in a ride involving the mandatory use of a rope.

Ride across a frozen Loch

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Is that Loch Leven? We skied across a few winters ago - Maybe 2010?

😀 pretty sure it was vegan.

I am not a jealous person,and really don't have many biking regrets,but when the you posted that photo years ago of riding across Loch Leven ,my first thought was "you lucky bar steward,I wish I had thought of that".

😀

[i]edit > don't know if I would have been brave enough< edit[/i] 😉

igm - done your suggestions
stuartie c - cooled my brakes wi my ain pish
simon - broken plenty of bones

Is that Loch Leven? We skied across a few winters ago - Maybe 2010?

Yes, Loch Leven in 2010. We rode almost the full length of it from Kinoss east. No more than a hundred yards from the shore. The ice was a foot thick.

Did you go right across?

Al, it was this stuff. Organic too, the Captain would have approved.

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Fasthaggis, we tried to ride the trail, but it was frozen and rutted. It seemed the obvious choice. When we were kids we used to go skating under the moonlight on a hill top curling pond. We would light a fire on the ice too.

Not right across, we headed out from Kirkgate, past the castle island towards St Serfs. We did it at night and it was quite eerie. The ice was super thick, but eventually we turned back as we didn't want to run out of battery power, and didn't want to miss the all-you-can-eat at the Indian. I suspect there was some open water further east - I don't know why, but I think I once saw an aerial photo, or maybe one from one of the hills that made me think this.

Vegie pate in the BB? Pffft!

Try lithium grease on yer oatcakes!

You're brave, that's a big loch!
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Fixed a broken rear mech using only an allen key, a stone, a dock-leaf and your teeth (oddly enough I did this in Bridge of Earn, not from the loch pictured above)

LOL - I've fixed a faulty singlespeed with a piece of rotten fencepost, and once stripped the bark off a green branch and threaded it through a set of riser bars with a crack on the bend which "winked" as the bike was ridden. This was not my bike BTW, and my advice was "do not ride". The owner completed a lap of K'tree black, "winking" all the way. Madness.

Heath-Robinson trailside bodges should be on the list.

#5 Using the straps on your backpack as a sling for your broken collar bone

Heath-Robinson trailside bodges should be on the list.

By best bodge was fixing an avid brake caliper with a plastic tick remover

Done all ten, id like to add learnt to wheelie

Mended a (very) bent rear hanger with a rock and a pavement, one week into a three week tour of Southern Ireland. I wouldn't recommend it. In fact it wouldn't make my top 100.

Anyone ever done the grass/turf in a tyre cos you're 15 miles from the car and just burst your last inner tube?

No - it's apparently quite rubbish. The better solution is apparently to tie knots in the end of your innertube, though I've not tried that either.

I'm missing the bike park (I'm assuming trail center black runs don't count), but have also got most of the supplementaries listed here - I've never repacked a BB with vegetarian pate anywhere though.

I'd like to add the following which I've done:
Take your bike for a long walk (I think anybody who did MM last year can probably count that one, though I was thinking of walks rather longer than that!)
Ride a tandem (preferably in combination with igm's suggestions, though not necessarily the Alpine downhill one - now that really is ace!)
Descend over 1000m at speed without stopping (do not touch your disks at the bottom)

OK some to add
Ride on an actual mountain
Carry/push/manhandle up something to access something amazing
Ride something everyone tells you that you can't
Share it with Friends
Go Solo too far

Ride on Christmas Day.

Do a Polaris event carrying all your kit, spend the night halfway up some mountain in a tiny tent in a howling gale then get up and compete again the next day for five hours. Used to do them with my brother back in the early 90s; it was always a good bonding experience.

Meh. Done all. Lovely production though.

#11 Make the trails come alive with [s]650b[/s] a pentagram drawn in salt, a live chicken and a quick chat with Satan.

Owned a Kona 😉

cack yourself when riding on north shore the first time and then complete it successfully.

What a load of guff!

I thought it was going to be a list of races/events.

garry lager

ive done the grass in tyre fix, and it worked, saved me walking 10 miles anyway, mushy pead wheel,tyre combo once I got home though

Riding a race(again) and visiting a bike park (again) would be adding to the number 1 regret in life list that was posted yesterday.

For me anyway.

get a pedal to shin interface that brings a tear to the eye... Thanks for that BPW.

so once completed do i have to hang up the bikes and stop.

pah. ticked all of these and more besides. nice film though and mucho truth.

Ridden until you hit the wall.
Ridden in horizontal rain, requiring you to pedal downhill to get anywhere (because then you appreciate the good days more).
Waded a river with your bike. Bivvied or bothied with your bike.

Turned up for a ride without your clipless shoes, ride in your trainers anyway.

Lower your bike down a 25 ft cliff cos you don't wan't too back track 15 miles, climb the dam and climb a 8 feet fence with bike and pack on the other side.

Get lost and the resort to follow the stream to civilisation.

Those things happen if you do a two week tour across a country with only a car road map and a mate who sort off speaks the language.

For the guy with tie a knot in the tube(it does work) done 200+ miles on one on the road bike before i punctured it again in another spot.

squish 2 lower back discs...?

i like mountain biking and i think a mountain biker should fall and get stiches... 😛

Done all on that list except the group high-five at the very end. Although riding to the sea fees like cheating for me: -almost unavoidable where I live 😀

I would like to add:
-Ridden a mountain bike in a cross race and beaten people on cross bikes.
-Owned a singlespeed mountain bike (whether you liked it/saw the point is optional!)
-Fallen off in a trailcentre car park/reclaimed railway cyclepath.
-Burnt yourself on a disc rotor.

Ride through dog/cow/sheep/deer faeces and 'enjoy' the spray on your face. Makes you feel alive.

Throw your bike down off the side of the trail in a fit of rage as you're slowly eaten alive by swarms of midges trying to affect a bodge to get you back.

No one mentioned laugh at a mates crash until you realise they've banjoed themselves...