[Closed] Stw trail centre stereotypes!

Did you have fun?

How do you know they worked in IT?

and drove Skoda's?

In my (positive) experience, mountain biking is a great leveller whether at a trail centre or elsewhere...

I bet you had fun knowing that you were far superior to them on their shiny bikes. I mean, they were obviously all shite riders too...

The true hardcore never ride trail centres.

No just flicked on the phone to look at some vids from today and thought I'd post!

The true hardcore never ride

FTFY

At the end of the day, they were probably having more fun in their non judgemental ways. So who is laughing more...

loddrik - Member
At the end of the day, they were probably having more fun in their non judgemental ways. So who is laughing more

+1

i'm still baffled, and slightly saddened, that it bothers people what others choose to do/wear/ride etc. why should it matter to you?
live your own life, and leave others to live theirs.

Loddrik at what point was I judgemental you div?? I just made a statement regarding the stick "trail weekend warriors" get on here! Personally I couldn't give a **** so longs we all have the crack!!

Did you fit the STW stereotype?

so which stereotype describes you?

edit: too slow!

me? - i play with a few stereotypes, sometimes i'm 'overbiked' - sometimes i'm singlespeeding, sometimes i'm a hardtail evangelist.

i've even been known to indulge in whooping and high-fives!

What is the Stw trail centre stereotype?

well, you start off by arriving in your audi/octavia/passat estate...

any audi will do, but if it's a skoda it must be an octavia, and if it's a VW it must be a passat estate.

😳

Octavia VRS - check

So as ahwiles said, that's all the usual stuff that gets spouted on here!! I was all in black, caning my one bike and yes gave it a few whoops out loud as we got air! The main thing i couldn't believe was how busy it was!!

What is the Stw trail centre stereotype?

I think Urban Dictionary sums it up pretty well:-

[url= http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=singletrackworld ]Singletrackworld[/url]

And I came in a tranny 😉

And I came in a tranny

Its not often you hear someone admit to that!

singletrackworld
A website populated by portly mid life crisis sufferers with delusions of gradeur, who think that riding around on an expensive push bike somehow makes up for their dull job in engineering or IT.

Various cliques can be found on this website. The most amusing being the ones who pretend to like something purely so they can be on first name terms with a washed up ex bike journalist come budget bike company owner or some muppet who draws pictures of sheep and waffles on in a pretentious manner. The actual condiment is more entertaining.
"I'm an overwieght, stuffy, pompous engineer with a lack of personality is there anywhere I can go to have petty arguements with people just like me?"
"Of course there is, try singletrackworld"
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singletrackworld
An online home for middle aged, middle/upper class, predominantly English xc jey boy mincers whose idea of mountain biking consists of grinding around the country side in brightly coloured lycra on titanium singlespeed rigid ego chariots.

The typical singtrackworld member can usually be spotted in trail centre carparks standing beside their Audi, loudly boasting about the three foot drop they "nailed" with ease thanks to their new £5000 6inch all mountain bike, or how they "smoked some downhillers" whilst riding their rigid on-one wearing a blindfold on the black route.

Inwardly the average singletrackmember would love to posses more skills than the ability to negotiate a technical climb, in reality this means acquiring actual bike handling skills. To cover up their utter lack of ability on a bike they pour scorn on any style riding which isnt utterly boring.
"Hey john, where did you get that fancy new bike?" "Its actually not new at all, I bought it off some **** with more money than sense on singletrackworld. He clearly couldnt ride for toffee, just like the rest of those asshats"

And I came in a tranny

wrightyson - Member

... The main thing i couldn't believe was how busy it was!!

more and more people are realising that bikes are ace! and that grown ups can play too.

yep very open minded of you at least loddrik [b]in their non judgemental ways[/b] wont mind as at leats it was not a woman 😉

After an extended period working at a well known and particulary busy trail centre I can tell you I've seen them all.And I have a deeply skewed view of what 'modern' moutainbiking is!

I don't like trail centres much but two weeks ago Afan was fairly dry and good fun whereas today in Surrey Hills it was muddy as hell and I felt bad from start to finish for adding further to the erosion and general cutting up of the trails and landscape. That said the Peaslake shop is a lot better than the now closed Glyncorryg cafe.

Junkyard was that as in me being open minded? Like I said I couldn't give a ****, was just observing what others had stated before!

I especially love observing the gentlemen of a more portly stature who do a lap at a bimble and then eat a massive cooked breakfast and some cake and some energy drink and then wonder why they are getting fatter.

As long as we're all having fun though who gives a monkeys gonad, all riding is good. 😀

I'll take the worst trail centre over a thousand surrey hills...

Tazzy, why didn't you just come and say hello...

they were probably having more fun

more fun than what ? Can different people compare their fun levels ?

More fun than an open casket funeral...

Audi estate, very expensive new bikes, LOTS of faffage, gadgets and serious faces.

EDIT: ahh, someone posted it above

loddrik- next time i'm in the clwyds i'll drop you an email if you fancy an ellsworths day out

Tazzy, our paths are destined to cross at some point.

Should increase the calorific value of north wales for a short while if nothing else 😆

Househusband has it spot on. It's an activity open to all, why should anyone judge anyone else for what or where they ride or some perceived stereotype based on taking someone on first impression?

I want to become more of a stereotype. It'll save time when working out whether people should like me or not... I just need to choose which sterotype I want to be.

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Fun? 😉

portly mid life crisis sufferers with delusions of [i]gradeur [sic][/i], who think that riding around on an expensive push bike somehow makes up for their dull job in engineering or IT.

I'm English, 42 with a little round tum. Have a challenging job that combines Engineering AND IT from which riding provides a ready escape. I have two moderately priced XC mincer bikes. My delusions are far from grand!

BTW. the author of that particular vitriol can't spell "grandeur". I suppose that is to be expected from someone who posts on Urban Dictionary.

buzz - If you really want to be pedantic about the UD entry then it failed to mention that all STWers are very pedantic... 😉

No they're not. Prove it...

Know there knot..

" it failed to mention that all STWers are very pedantic..."

The urbane forum denizen make an effort to lift the standard, else it will descend into chaos and "lolcat" speech.

The Urban Dictionary serves merely the vulgar and the illiterate. True snootiness requires good spelling, grammar and obscure insults.

[quaffs port and heads upstairs to "bedfordshire"]

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Sometimes I wish I'd never learnt how to post images.

stereotypes exist because they reveal certain truths. I am saving for an audi....

Just to point out, on Urban dictionary, "[i]or how they "smoked some downhillers" whilst riding their rigid on-one wearing a blindfold on the black route. [/i]

That's me that is. And I totally smoked them. And I was riding fixed too.

you badass lol!

I just ordered some rigid forks for my ti on-one 8)

I don't wear full body armour, but I can if I must...

I'll take the worst trail centre over a thousand surrey hills...

I wouldn't. Lots of ace riding in the Surrey Hills.

I came in a tranny

Quote of the year.

Quote of the year.

you're just jealous!

Fun?

Exactly.

Does this meet with STW TC users? Whilst talking to another biker over coffee, he asked me what I thought of my Ionos helmet, then said he had bought one to match each of his bikes....funny tubby man.

What's a trail centre?

It's a location with all-weather, purpose-built cycling trails. Generally considered a useful addition to the bridleway network.

Edit-It's a location with all-weather, purpose-built cycling trails. Generally considered useful for keeping people off the bridleway network.

interesting idea.

I'll take the worst trail centre over a thousand surrey hills...
I wouldn't. Lots of ace riding in the Surrey Hills.

People ought to avoid the Surrey hills at all costs, nothing worth riding at all there, it's utter rubbish. You'll be wanting anywhere else but there. It's crap, really it is.. Especially the miles of singletrack and beautiful scenery and all the mad droppy jumpy stuff on Pitch and Leith. God good no, it's shite.

Avoid at all costs.

He clearly couldn't ride for toffee, just like the rest of those [b]sanctimonious[/b] asshats

are there no standards left [i]anywhere[/i] on this confounded internetz?

trail centres are like, sooo last year, who still rides trail centres anyway?

I do-but only on my fixie cx nichetastic dandy horse and with an overwhelming sense of superiority.

I rode at trail centres a few times last year (5 I think) and barely saw anyone at any of them ('cause I either visited early in the morning at the weekend, or on a weekday), so can't confirm the stereotypes (other than myself, who unfortunately does tick a few of the boxes).

Fair play ^^ Steve, I also fit some of the stereotypes due to my all black stealth outfit, which when you go to decathlon seems to be the cheapest colour for the stuff you want!!!

I love trail centres!

Me too. But I also love the Peaks, Lakes, N Wales. The Surrey Hills is shite though.