[Closed] people always mock xc jeyboys....

world champs xc a line drop gap jump...

Nice 😀

Makes no difference, he is still wearing lycra and looks like a power ranger 😛

That was in the World Cup course last year too, not even got a nice line into it.

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That's a 29er too, certainly a proper drop! Sure the armchair experts can all ride it no handed though!

he is walking down it though 😉

No chicken line?

Yeah there is a chicken line to the right of the photo IIRC

Caught a few out if IIRC... the XC guys and girls definitely fall more spectacularly.

Oh yeah, I remember it from last year. Wouldn't really fancy doing it on one of those bikes..

Any footage of it being ridden?

Now that looks like something I'd have a go at riding, but not with my seatpost at full height and XCers don't really do uppydowny posts do they?

Or stop before and after an obstacle to fanny about with their qr 😳

I'd be riding that no problems......

........on my face with my arms sprawled out in front of me & my bike disappearing down the hillside. 😕

Must try harder.

respect!

respect for any person fit enough or skillful enough to compete!

hate to the armchair guys with big guts, little skill/fitness and shiny expensive all-mountain bikes!

you wouldn't even make the drop off because you'd probably be propped up against a tree spewing your guts up!

Hmm - don't fancy that on my HT TBH!

Mmmmmm... chicken lines. I just luv 'em 8)

You wouldn't catch my jey-tastic self going anywhere near that. Even on an Orange 5.

yeah it's the seatpost that gets me! tbh i can't imagine how that works.. (other than painfully)

people always mock xc jeyboys....

Generally only the ones that take themselves too seriously, or the ATGNI types...

Then there's guys like Absalon, who cleaned up at the Olympic test event (and a couple of the drops there make that one look small!) in style, repeatedly clearing all the trail obstacles. But then again, even though he may be fully lycra'd up, and on an 18lb Carbon hardtail, "jey" is hardly a fitting description of his riding style/ability!

Lean back, lots! Keep your knees apart, and wait for the saddle to clout you in the thigh when you land!

Lean back, lots! Keep your knees apart, and wait for the saddle to clout you in the head when you crash!

FTFY.

Now that takes some proper skillz on a skinny carbon HT

KINGTUT 😆

Where is it?

anybody who wears lycra or rides a hardtail is totally jey.

its embarrassing when people use 'core' when describing XC riding, get over yourself you tubby middlemanagers... stick to the canals where you belong. the woods are for us sik riderz who know how to turn the awesome up to 11. if you can't send it, go home.

What is it with the jeyboy label, as said above re Absalon and I've watched Hermida come down some serious descents without all the stormtrooper protection?
Jeyboys and girls are ace.

Where is it?

Champery, Switzerland.

LOL @ Kingtut!

go large or go home, or go large on the way home with coke to drink.

@5:45... Doesn't look so bad...

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Well its one of those more balls than skills ones - but - when your already blowing out your @rse it aint so easy on a race! with skinny tyres and 100mm travel not so easy I reckon!

There was a picture online somewhere of a rider practising one of the lines at a World Cup XC in Australia, it had a guy standing next to it watching as well. so you could see the angles of the terrain.

Proper mental nearly vertical drop, limited run out and the guy was riding it on the usual 18lb XC HT, saddle fully extended. It looked like a smaller steeper version of The Slab at Dalbeattie except with bigger rocks in the run out zone...

Watching pro XCers is incredible - Absalon at the Olympic Test Event was SO smooth (and that course is really tough, much harder than it looks in pictures).

Grrrrrrrrr!
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Proper national level (or above) xc riders are all nails and better technically than most of us.

I remember riding the first version of the Witches Trail at FW (not the shorter easier one they use now) its bonkers to think they did multiple laps on skinny hardtails with 80mm forks. I've still never managed to clean Nessie!

I bumped into two whippet types wearing what looked like Irish team kit at Dalbeattie one day. Me and my mate were mincing around at the top of the Qualifier and Slab trying to pluck up the courage to do it. These guys gave us a cheery hello did a little trackstand at the top and then just shot down it. Saddles fully extendened.

So I think the "jeyboy" tag is pretty often underserved

The bloke in that video at 24sec - that might as well be me, that might. 🙁

would i be wrong in thinking that 'jey' is just an almost swearfilter avoidance style way of getting away with calling XC riders 'gay' and if so how come STW hasnt clamped down on it...?

its not a swear word i know... but if thats the understood implication of 'jey' then it's kinda the equivalent of calling people 'slowmosexuals'

TSY - assume that's the chicken run at 6:14?

"I've still never managed to clean Nessie!"

I remember that feature, a right-curving staircase. I tried it twice on a rental HT and ended up in the orange netting twice.

Is it gone now? That's a pity.

"Jey" is a badge to be worn with pride.

Last year more people picked to their bikes and leapt across it (during practise at least) than actually launched it on the bike! Made for some very funny footage though 🙂

Meaning of Jeyboy please?????????????

Jeypride is awesome, you baggy short wearing tubby boys should stick to biffling around with your slow heavy skill compensating tractors and leave the properly skilled riders alone.

gayboy, under the pretense of being non homophobic

It's a derogatory term used against XC riders for riding lightweight bikes, generally mincing and wearing lycra, cos we're not stormtroopers.

thought as much. are people taking offence? if so i'll definitely stop using it...

actually i've only ever used it to take the mic out of people who use it seriously on here... never said it in real life.

*reports self to the mods for creating the term slomosexual*

Can someone make some "jeypride" lycra please? With Slowmosexual written across the back of the shorts? This would make me very happy.

"I've still never managed to clean Nessie!"

I remember that feature, a right-curving staircase. I tried it twice on a rental HT and ended up in the orange netting twice.

Is it gone now? That's a pity

No Nessie is still there, still marked on the route as well but they have shortened the original course by quite a bit, although all of the trail is still there you just need to find it.

Doesn't the phrase jeyboy have its routes in down wit' da kidz MBUK mag?

This would make me very happy.

binners - Member

Doesn't the phrase jeyboy have its routes in down wit' da kidz MBUK mag?

MBUK forum as I recall.

But only you....

😆 surely you don't think I ever think about anyone else? 😆

This is becoming more evident day by day...

No way am I doing that drop on my XC bike... Or any other bike for that matter :s

I always wear lycra and only ride cross country....

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=jey

I wear nothing but a thong and ride an apollo, do I fit in? 😆

thought as much. are people taking offence? if so i'll definitely stop using it...

My name is aracer and I'm an XC jeyboy.

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Where did you get photos of my pants from?!!!

Urban dictionary, never fails to amuse 🙂

Yes the top xc boys are pretty damm skillful. I've ridden with a guy who is a superfit xc type racer and he is very quick downhill.

The top guys are hard as nails, as are the top road riders. Loads of battle scars, tons of skill and supremely fit.

As for the rest of the xc/road riding pansies, the mickey taking shall resume.... 😛

Nice line I'll do it on a hardtail but with the saddle down ;-), however at this point we shall remember they are professional riders in MOUNTAIN biking. So all thing considered it is not that difficult, and you do come across similar features riding along in the alps. It's like saying your mechanics he's a very good tinkerer because he can change your cam shaft on the car.
Absalon is indeed a very skilled rider as he's one of the few top ten to attempt and finish the TV. Same way that most roadies would struggle on a road ride with the other absalon or fabien barel (yes this bastard is really fast uphill).

Blimey Yeti, never seen mountain bike racing before, did you see how fast those blokes were going from the start line!! 😯 I would be wanting my mum at that jump. LOL

Muddy girls though..... 😳

*stops thinking about wanting emsz mummy*

Errrrmm, no, sorry, it's gone... I had something to say... I'll come back to you.

It seems that the "cross country riders are soft" image come very much from people that can't really ride themselves or have very little understanding of the sport. I have read/heard many a comment from pro downhiller's complementing the cross country riders, sure I remember Steve Peat saying that a great cross country rider was proper mountain biker.
Also to add weight to the cross country riders have skills, Nino Schurter beat Remi Absalon in a 'mega' event last year.

Muddy girls though.....

Why else d'you think I bother with Mayhem every year....it may be muddy/rainy and have a rubbish course, but there are always very nicely formed and superfit female riders to cheer me up as I'm (inevitably) overtaken.

Jey just means you ride 100% of everything at full tilt.

No stopping, faffing, eating, drinking or in fact anything that stops you getting to B from A as quickly as possible.

Sometimes it looks cack handed, messy and even if they're mincing, but it's a race against other riders out there at the same time as you and the line isn't always available and you have to think or not on the spot.

Lol at the mincers in the video off the bike & running with it.

Err, guys, you're in a XC BIKE RACE, not an xc running race.

So stay on the bike & ****ing ride the damn thing.

🙄

i love this has brought out some deamons...im jey and proud but even that line would make me think twice

These guys and girls are pro athletes, the discipline is somewhat by the by. Tracy Mosely was competitive at the Dalby XC and Peaty raced extremely well in XC class back in the day.

Just like most top XC riders have a few skills when pointing downwards.

So stay on the bike & **** ride the damn thing.

What if it's faster to run? If you've not got a good line and had to stop it's probably quicker to run down the hill than it is to faff trying to restart with other riders streaming past!

Just like most top XC riders have a few skills when pointing downwards

What if it's faster to run?

If you've not got a good line and had to stop it's probably quicker to run down the hill than it is to faff trying to restart with other riders streaming past!

200 riders turn off the starting fireroad at 30mph into the first bit of singletrack, which includes a very narrow rooty descent. You have the choice of stopping/trackstanding and waiting 5 minutes for a clear line, or you get off and run, when you can go through the undergrowth, and take very different 'lines' to the single rideable line.

You're always going to get bottlenecks, unless you have a race of 100% fireroad, which would be torturously dull, and like it or not (I imagine not and you'll have some smart arse justification about what girls they all are and you can puff out your chest and feel good about yourself) it [i]may[/i] be quicker for those at the back to run.

If it's good enough for CX riders..

Everyone knows they can't ride anything though 🙄

The race is on to be first through the singletrack. If your not one of the first it's carnage. It's hard to explain if you've not been there, but the drive to keep moving is very powerfull. If you dab you just tend to run and remount rather than stop and start again.?

And if it's a world cup or similar with 200 riders you will never be the first unless you're on the front row of the grid! So you may as well limit your losses, and yes as soon as you stop just get off and run, at least you're still moving!

Wouldn't like to do it on a hardtail, did a drop of a metre on the weekend on a xc bike with the saddle up... took a fair few hours to forget that! Where is that course?

Only issue I've got with people walking/running sections is when they think it's OK to do it right down the middle of the trail, or block the trail while they restart, and end up slowing down riders who've just ridden the section they wouldn't. If I do 10UTB again there's a decent chance I'll end up slapping someone 😳

Champery, Switzerland.

TBH you don't get walkers in an XC race, and being behind is your problem unless it's lapping leaders.
It tickles me how fussy xc riders are about their bikes and kit, but when they're racing they treat them like ****.

Bikes are meant to be treated like ****