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Get back on it after being broken.
Ride off the summit.
Ride a century.
Pass the love it on to someone else.
Jelly babies.
Did all of them before I left school, but my 1st experiences of each would be a bit more northern...
Sleep next to your bike - (pics of me waking up in a dark damp wood in the lakes covered in slugs i had squashed in my sleep)
Racing - (pics of me getting gobbed in the face, then my seatpost slipping down reversing my earlier progrees through the field as my saddle height bacem a bit too BMX)
Riding abroad - (pics of sunburnt skinny youth on a dodgy french hire bike rolling round endless fireroads)
Build your own bike - (pics of me in a freezing cold garage rebuilding my dads old 531 60's road bike using no new parts)
Explore your own trails - (pics of my pushing a raleigh equipe through a bog)
etc etc.
Music would also have to be something the smiths - 'punctured bicycle on a hillside desolate'
converting your geared bike to single speed mid trail while coming to the realisation that your bike doesn't actually need all of those spokey things.
A circumnavigation of the Cairngorms should be in there too! 🙂
Get naked changing in an inappropriately public carpark after a muddy ride.
Ridden in horizontal rain, requiring you to pedal downhill to get anywhere (because then you appreciate the good days more).
Or how about walking downhill on tarmac because the cross-wind made it impossible to ride (though thankfully no rain on that occasion).
-Owned a singlespeed mountain bike
Pah - if you're going there:
ridden a unicycle off-road 8)
Stopping for a trailside pee and having your belief that you're alone being brought into sharp focus as an attractive member of the opposite sex rides by...
you can't just "stop" now can you..
EDIT - I only ticked this off at the weekend.
Riding for so long in the cold and wet that I had to slide my hands off the ends of the bar as I couldn't open my fingers.
Damn, beaten to it with the grass in tyre fix! But on from that, 2 punctures in inner tube and 2 knots. Gap between knots doesn't inflate, so fill that with grass:-) worked for me!
Four definites and a couple of maybes for me. My own top ten would be very different.
Out in the countryside ride passed a lovely church swear like a trooper as chain drops on to bottom bracket, look over wall to see funeral halted mid coffin lower in shock. Not me who swore but I am now married to the culprit.
Two I think are missing:
Ride a piece of trail you have built
Introduce someone to MTB.
Colin-T - MemberTwo I think are missing:
Ride a piece of trail you have built
Introduce someone to MTB.
Like that, so my number 13 is organise a race.
What to do for 14
Anyone ever done the grass/turf in a tyre cos you're 15 miles from the car and just burst your last inner tube?
I've done it, it does compress so you need to put loads in there, and you can't avoid a flat spot, which will kill your back after 10 miles.
Knot in inner tube has worked fine for me.
Given the number of trail centre only riders these days, I think every mountain biker needs to just draw a circle on a map and follow it to see what's there.
Also, in the same vein, discovering a ribbon of unridden singletrack after a day's bog trudging is always particularly rewarding
done 6 of them, plus 1 more on a road bike. only bivvy (done but not with a bike) and transalp to tick off. don't care about doing a race.
meh @ trail centre, building a trail (i think that comes under the discover a trail anyway).