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  • have you ever lost your riding mojo?
  • swiftyx2
    Free Member

    Not rode since August (Cannock,DH) due to injury.

    Its killing me…!!!!, watch as much as I can find on web,and read as much as the mags provide. Not working so costing me a fortune which then means no up-grades. New bike in garage thats not been used in anger yet (polished,lubed,and waiting). Bl–dy NHS no op until Jan/Feb 2012 due to funding????.

    So got Mojo but having to contain it at min.

    Steve

    spacehopper
    Full Member

    loads of times…

    The hardest bit is getting out of the door..

    once im out there it usually comes back pretty quickly though 🙂

    jeb
    Full Member

    Oh lost it a couple of times, but last time i found it, starting riding with my nephew(17, me 41) and then i remembered what i was good at! :

    Overtaking, choosing the most stupid lines

    And when overtaking, always poking an elbow out hitting him

    Beating the crap out him climbing ( i ridden for 20 years, so have learned a bit)

    Always ride trails i know well so i can smoke him in the turns

    But here is the looser part, he flat out smokes me, when we hit the tarmac going home…. 🙁

    So lesson learned, find somebody to bully 😉

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    Northwind
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    I’ve had days when I basically can’t ride a bike, but never an outright mojo-loss. But having said that, well and truly lost it for the motorbike so it could happen to pushirons too. Hope not!

    Radioman
    Full Member

    Never really. Even when I know I’m not particularly good at it. I just enjoy riding. I just like all round riding. Quite a bit of trail stuff, sometimes DH type stuff and just plain mixing it up, especially in the mountains. The big thing for me is being out with nature /countryside… I also enjoy road biking in sunny weather.

    I think the thing that helped my riding is realising I ride for my enjoyment not for others’ approval so it doesn’t really matter if i’m not the quickest or most “rad”. The big thing is to enjoy. Many guys are always in competition with each other, and that in my view reduces the fun. Many give up when they can’t be “the best”.

    crispybacon
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    I got back into cycling in 2000 & started off road MTB riding in 2006. I loved every minute of it getting out as much as I could. A year or so back I completely lost my riding mojo for no apparent reason, I just couldn’t seem to find the motovation to go out riding always finding excuses too cold, too windy too wet etc. My lowest point was getting up one Saturday & putting all my riding kit on, sorting the bike out in the garage & just as I was about to set off the Mrs came home & I prompty put the bike away & stayed in.

    I then had a serious talk with myself as to whether to continue riding or not, then I went out for a short blast with a mate & bang I found my biking mojo again & why I love riding off road.

    I’ve recently got some lights & I’m now night riding too – ain’t night riding superb I love it 🙂

    jedi
    Full Member

    i just posted my answer to the poll!
    its just a question not a how good or bad you can make someone feel

    slowboydickie
    Full Member

    Yep. My back’s foooked from combination of bad posture with laptop on train, sat at a desk all day and 6 rides in two weeks on my new hardtail. Even if osteopath hadn’t banned riding for a week, I wouldn’t have gone out tonight. that must mean I lost my mojo.

    muddydwarf
    Free Member

    Lost what little mojo i had on the last day of a great week with Ciclo Montana. For some reason i was riding like a complete pillock, couldn’t keep a line/make a turn etc. All came to a head on the Elephants Tail descent when my vertigo got its claws in me and gave me the wobblies all the way down the cliff-side descent 😥

    Not ridden off road since due to decorating but i’m out this weekend!

    crazy-legs
    Full Member

    Mmmm, not really sure. I’ve always had a rest about October time right back from the days when I was racing seriously, travelling the country doing NPS, Mountain Mayhem etc and finally getting to the end of the season and just being able to chill out really helped.

    I’m not MTB racing these days and a combination of things has meant I haven’t ridden a MTB in months. Road riding and racing, training for the Three Peaks CX, getting back into winter track racing now, the weather being shite, the BB on the MTB being shagged has all contributed.

    When I’m actually riding, I almost always love it; sure there are days when I’m rubbish and can’t ride off a kerb but there are days when it all flows, the trails are dry, the weather is good and it all comes together.

    metalheart
    Free Member

    Tony, this reminds me of one of my favourite Steve Bell cartoons. Don’t know how to link it but it’s here

    Sadly lost mine ATM. Buggered my back in Feb and spiralled down for a bit.

    Can’t seem to find motivation…

    jedi
    Full Member

    just a cold and frosty ride down some treelined singlatoo is all thats required for you metalheart.

    Trekster
    Full Member

    Nobeerinthefridge – Member

    I’m 36 now, and the amount of guys who I ride with who are in there 50’s, coupled with some people on the likes of here and other forums who are still doing proper riding even older than that, I know I’ll be riding for decades to come.
    😉
    jedi

    So lesson learned, find somebody to bully

    😆

    ps44
    Free Member

    Not lost my mojo but seem to have lost my legs. Had a major blow up riding about 3 weeks ago and just can’t get my hill climbing going again (going uphill has always been my better direction 😕 ). It’s happened before…and there were signs tonight that they might be coming back. Can’t help but enjoy this warm night riding though.

    mudmonster
    Free Member

    Lost it after dislocating my shoulder. Dislocated it a second time and now I don’t think I’ll ever get it back. Especially now I only get to mountain bike every now and then 🙁 Will keep on trying though.

    fatsimonmk2
    Free Member

    had a right nightmare on wednesday night left my inhaler on the kitchen table had to go back to get it everyone i was with was very cool about but from then on in couldn’t find my mojo every bump was a mountain all muddy puddles were about a foot deep and sucked down my wheel all in all a nightmare but off out on sunday so i hope my mojo is waiting by the back door as normal 😀 😉

    metalheart
    Free Member

    just a cold and frosty ride down some treelined singlatoo is all thats required for you metalheart.

    That just might do it! As long as I don’t fall off on the blue again 😳

    Some dusty treelined single track in the warm sunshine (preferably in the high mountains of CO) would be even better though 😀

    Bagstard
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    My mojo is fine and dandy, but my opportunities to ride are miniscule. I’m currently dragging my heavy 29er with big fat tyres the 28 mile round trip to work just to have a little play in the woods on the way home. Day four on the trot and my legs are losing their mojo!

    That said a muddy uplift weekend a couple of years ago at Caersws DH kicked the ship out of my mojo. Mud is ok to a point, but when it gets that bad I would rather be warm, dry and safe at home on the sofa.

    wwaswas
    Full Member

    Opportunity for a cross bike purchase there Bagstard 🙂

    Bagstard
    Free Member

    I did consider a cross bike, have dabbled with various hybrid options, but I’m only really happy on a mountain bike. I’m used to wide bars and slack angles, so getting weight off my now rigid 29er is the way for me. I currently have a boardman hybrid with land cruisers on, but my fun route home is too much for it.

    ononeorange
    Full Member

    Never. I just can’t find enough time to ride, sadly.

    Nobby
    Full Member

    Motivation yes, mojo no.

    yunki
    Free Member

    motivation no, mojo.. yes

    a couple of rides this year have been very hard work, awkward, clumsy and full of defensive manouveres.. I’ve been plagued with injury and health problems all year though..

    time constraints have also contributed to a very erratic riding schedule so I’ve not been getting anywhere near enough time on the bike..

    this has all left me almost obsessively hungry for more.. 😈

    senorj
    Full Member

    All came to a head on the Elephants Tail descent when my vertigo got its claws in me and gave me the wobblies all the way down the cliff-side descent

    Don’t beat yourself up about that , It scared me $hittless the first and the last time I rode it. 🙂

    messiah
    Free Member

    Never my biking mojo 😛

    But somehow I lost my skiing mojo 😥

    Mounty_73
    Full Member

    After having such a dry year and some fantastic riding both local and further away, my mojo is changing at the moment, but I think its down to the weather and shorter daylight hours.

    I find getting ready and getting out, the hard bit at this time of year, but once out I love it and when I get home I feel so different and that I had to go out, if that makes sense?? Plus I get cranky if I dont get out in one way or another! 😉

    BUT I am changing my riding habits a bit, the surface I ride on, when I go, what I do etc, also I have re-discovered my love of hill walking too, its all good stuff………outside in the fresh air, exercise…

    I see it as a positive thing to take a step back from riding and do something else (but only for a short while for me).

    Its a ‘mental’ thing for me…..may be that’s ‘motivation’.

    RobHilton
    Free Member

    It waxes & wanes, but I never lose it 😀

    ddmonkey
    Full Member

    My Mojo has gone a bit recently, mainly due to a bit of frustration at my own lack of bottle and loss of confidence. I’ve never lost my motivation through, so I have a plan to get it back and a great ride last Sunday really helped, so now I’m champing at the bit to get out there again and try some more stuff. I have my eye on a nice gap jump too so when I clear that I’ll feel much better about my riding I hope. I need to MTFU a bit.

    bigyinn
    Free Member

    xcneil – Member

    yeah went out for a zone 2 session on tue based on hrt rate zone avg watts was 228 happy with that but…

    went out today same zone 2 session avg watts 212 so i’m down 16 watts at the same zone 2 session and duration (oh and yes power meter had been calibrated ) so being down wattage with a cx race on sun is not good for my mental well being
    Jeez, sounds like you need to find the fun in your riding again. when did you last ride without a HRM?

    GW
    Free Member

    no, never, not even through injury.

    al seems vulnerable today, the split from TJ and Druidh’s love triangle must be taking it’s toll. 😆

    Lionheart
    Free Member

    Yes, but its all relative as most of my friends my age (still no that old yet) look at any MTB riding in amazement. Seem to be just another bike rider now with little or no speed! Had twenty years+ without a major injury built up MOJO, built up the speed and where appropriate the height.

    Then after three broken collar bones in two years, one of those falls had me in intensive for a week. So in all: too much time off work, too much impact on income, my physical state and family life – I now pootle about, mostly on a SS or 29ner. My wheels seem to cling to the ground, no drifting 🙁 and last week on a gravel to fist size stones longish dh green lane (one I used to scream down) I pick my way down maybe up to and including moments of 15mph!. I am even cautious cornering my road bike in the dry. As a courier years and years ago I slid and drifted – lent at all angles used all bits of road etc

    Maybe an age thing. My reactions are slower, I definitely do not see as well or as fast (I am the only one where the lack of speed of my focus change is a factor in slowing me down?), dim light is grim -used to be fun.

    Building a new bike, my third Soul (to put Soul back into my riding) and a big Troutie light and planning time with Tony so might pull a bit back…….

    Still love going out but currently feels dangerously close to bike path/family trail riding.

    Sanny
    Free Member

    Jedi

    For a brief moment, I thought you had lost yours!!!! Nooooooooooo!

    For me, no. I reckon that despite the turn to winter, I’m even more psyched for the biking. A few big mountain rides recently have opened up a whole world of possibilities for exploring that I just hadn’t got round to before. Winter evenings that aren’t night rides or family time are spent researching new routes on the likes of Geograph and Wlakhighlands or planning forign jaunts. Geograph is brilliant for seeing if trails that look sweet on the map are as good as I hope they will be.

    Cynic- Al

    Cheer up old fellow. Your legendarily cheap efforts at bodging engineering solutions always keep me amused. 😀

    Sanny

    BoardinBob
    Full Member

    After a week in the alps this summer I found it incredibly difficult to get enthusiastic about riding here

    The crap summer weather didn’t help

    jedi
    Full Member

    sanny, seems too long since we rolled on 26’s together 🙁

    angryratio
    Free Member

    The last technical thing i did on a bike was negotiate a big pothole.
    It’s weeks since i rode a mountain bike.

    I have spells of not riding offroad which usually coincide with assignments being due at uni.

    Currently miles are mostly clocking up on the pompino… and it sounds as if it’s going to spit its dummy..

    As for my mates..They’re all slowing down/mellowing.
    The big long travel bikes have been sold, the sensible xc bikes have been bought and built.
    And it’s a more sudate sensible one silly bike in the stable sort of affair.

    So mojo.?
    erm it’s kinda gone to the back of the toy cupboard.

    thomthumb
    Free Member

    skills wise it’s normally after coming off. takes half an hour if it’s a tumble or a ride or two if it’s a big(ish) off.

    motivation i find that sometimes my drive to get out diminishes – often i want to get out but life gets in the way… 🙁

    went out last night – first night ride for a month and i’m the happiest i’ve been in ages. 😀

    LoCo
    Free Member

    Yes a little, down to working all hours and the little one (first one) meaning I have been so tired just need to sleep when I get home.
    However now she’s a little older it’s all getting back to normal and the number of bikes is growing rapidly too 😀

    davidtaylforth
    Free Member

    Just been out again, it was warm and windy and it didnt rain. Result. I’ve got my riding mojo back after nearly 4 days off the bike. Thanks Jedi.

    MrBlond
    Free Member

    Haven’t ridden my MTB in over a year…

    But them I am in fairly central London, and it’s become a pain (of the more time travelling than riding sort).

    I do ride most days though 😉

    Ringo
    Free Member

    Nope not me sometimes I think **** it and go the pub instead, but I feel great the minute I get on a bike I get depressed when off the bike for more than a week

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