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.

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

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…

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’

A circumnavigation of the Cairngorms should be in there too! 🙂

Or how about walking downhill on tarmac because the cross-wind made it impossible to ride (though thankfully no rain on that occasion).

Pah – if you’re going there:
ridden a unicycle off-road 8)

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.

Four definites and a couple of maybes for me. My own top ten would be very different.

Two I think are missing:

Ride a piece of trail you have built

Introduce someone to MTB.

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.

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).