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Just wondered what were on peoples list of top cycling related things to do before they die... any suggestions welcome.
A select few from my list in no particular order are
La Marmotte, Grand Raid Cristalp, Raid Pyrenean, Leadville 100, 3 Peaks, Scotland Bothy trip, Chamonix to Zermatt.
Let me know yours.
Wheelie more than a few feet
Self supported wilderness trip, usefully own and use a cargo bike, ride an enduro and have people think I actually know what I am doing!
Some modest ambitions but tend to see a big thing, and want to do that, like Kielder 100...
stop?
Ride the Tour De France Route
I like the idea of doing a lap of France one day.
a decent size* double
10 foot, say ?
RAAM
End to End
Trans alp (on or off road)
Own and ride the bike you've always lusted after or wanted
Track stand for more than a minute!
Buy a road bike 🙂
Forget to brake?
Some sort of suitably impressive road gap.
It might be nice to finish my current build before I die but that's a long shot.
enjoy it.
Complete one ride without dabbing or falling off.
I'm crap, but I accept my crapness.
I really want to do one of the big assed alp climbs.
My dirt jumping days are over but I'm happy with what I did in that area.
I'd also want to do a long, long road trip. Couple of months around Europe I reckon, but not on a shoestring, I quite fancy being able to stop in nice hotels around the way, maybe spend a few days in posh seaside resorts.
Of course, I'll need to come into some big money to do it.
Anyone else got the November 1997 edition of Mountain Bike World? (Ancestor of Singletrack).
It has a 100 things to do before you die feature. Some good ones in there.
Some might be quite hard to arrange: "Go drinking with Rob Warner and/or Steve Peat".
"Some might be quite hard to arrange: "Go drinking with Rob Warner and/or Steve Peat". "
From what I've read on twitter 'I'm buying!' should be enough to secure that one.
Ooh, I've done 2 of Bloxters list!
Wheely a tandem 😀
cycle across somewhere properly foreign
route de grande alpes
done all the 'gnar' i want to do before i die, any gnarlier and i'd have got to the end somewhat prematurely
Just to be able to do this would be enough. Even the 2 light route was too scary for me 🙁 Thank god my Rear pads had worn out by this point
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Complete one ride without dabbing or falling off.I'm crap, but I accept my crapness.
im with you, brother
Lhasa to Kathmandu
Ride in the Arctic Circle
Read the serial number on the underside of the chassis of a BMW X5?
no one mentioned megavalanche yet?
best bike race ever
FACT
Agree with 'Haze'.....'Buy a road bike'
Win a race myself (ie: not as a team or a pair)
Place better in the Megavalanche.
Shag Cedric Gracia.
That's about it really... 😉
tailwhip 360 would be good
Six foot drop-off into a wooden box 😉
Successfully get down Devils Chessboard at Laggan.
Or take the high drop at GTress freeride park, just after swallowing a hand-grenade...
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C2C USA
puffer (damn exams keep getting in the way)
learn to jump/dropoff properly
do well at a race
edinburgh to york in a day on road
edinburgh to york off road (not in a day)
How about introducing a non cyclist to the wonderful world of biking? I think this was in the magazine in a similar list. I took a load of my triathlete mates mountain biking which was great fun. Good karma IMHO.
Lands End to John O'Groats. Been wanting to do it since I was a boy.
Cross the SImpson Desert in Oz.
Get into double digits in the 'Puffer 🙂 Keep breaking myself.
jojoA1 - Member
Shag Cedric Gracia.
he was rubbish, should try a proper biker!! 😉
epicyclo - Member
Lands End to John O'Groats. Been wanting to do it since I was a boy.
was talking to a guy yesterday who's done it 7 times, and once taking in all the scottish islands as well ( altho he did say that with the weather he couldn't see shit)
Build your own trails (esp some cheeky ones deep in a forest somewhere) with some sweet timber frame action and all that good stuff.
to keep on having my yearly 1 weeks offroad tour with 3 very good mates.
fueled by ipa's and cooked breakfast.
until i die obviously.
Fit a front mech in under 6 hours would be nice.
mega and pump track until the tires start skidding.
Go for a last ride, down the Windsor trail in New Mexico, on my trusty Maverick, before I have a shag fest to celebrate my 178th birthday
I'd have to place the Marmotte and the Leadville 100.
If plans go right for next year I should be around Leadville in August. No way would I be fit for it though. What, was that a certain L Armstrong letting out a sigh of relief? 😉
Pack parachute as I missed that sharp left on the cliff...
And take out life assurance so my loved ones can buy a car to remember me by...
Moab and the Trans Rockies/Alps
Do some lift assisted riding in the Alps. I know loads of you guys do it and I'm dead envious because circumstances don't permit 🙁