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.

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

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

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.

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

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”.

😀

edit > don’t know if I would have been brave enough< edit 😉

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.

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)

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.