im doing ok against other mates with e-mtb’s in our little challenges

That sounds a bit like a cookery competition where you all show up with a takeaway 😉

…with no judging. Just eating Bez.
ie. The BEST kind of cookery competition?

Probably carb loading would be my best event as I’m not fit enough for xc, don’t have the stamina for endurance events, never ridden a BMX in my life, haven’t got the balls for DH, so that leaves enduro. Never done one, but pretty sure I`d be amazing at it 😉

Can Hike a bike be a category?

1.
Bike and beer.
2.
Beer and bike.

Too many non-MTB categories in that list btw – RR Crit? wtf even is that shit? racing round Waitrose?.

RR Crit? wtf even is that shit? racing round Waitrose?.

hillingdon, Abingdon etc, you know short circuit multi-lap road bike events. 60 mins or so flat out… it’s quite popular on here.

So, capture it under ‘Road’ then, it’s all on tarmac, on a drop barred bike.

Then we’ll put DH, XC, trials, 4X, DJ and everything else under “off-road”, yeah? It’s all on dirt, on a broadly flat-barred bike.

Really guys ? We’re going to get all pedantic about a couple of random catagories i wrote ?

Sheesh…. come on… join in the fun, lets not get all crazy 🙂

Technical climbing – unfortunately there isn’t an event for that 🙁

Same think I’d do quite well at that.

Is there a category for Defensive Cycling? I reckon Geex is a shoo-in 😉

Then we’ll put DH, XC, trials, 4X, DJ and everything else under “off-road”, yeah? It’s all on dirt, on a broadly flat-barred bike.

How dare I, want to talk MTB on a MTB forum….

I’m out.

That sounds a bit like a cookery competition where you all show up with a takeaway 😉

Lol we all enjoy it and even some of our non e-mtb mates are borrowing e-mtbs and joining in, some of them are super fit on a normal bike and are surprised that they can still knacker themselves out on an e-mtb

Long distance road riding. So it makes complete sense that the only events I’ve entered this year are all the rounds of the Welsh Enduro Series!

Reading forums.

BimbleCore.

Berating the mechanical ineptitude of others…

Oh this very much, ..I can however turn my rant mode to almost anything, champion complainer.

I can do long distances quite well, on the road I’ll never win a bunch sprint or be first up a climb, but I can sit on the front for a while and give out a little hurt. I recover pretty well so multi-day events work well for me.

Off road it’s techy climbs, my handling skills are pretty good but I’m to much of a coward to use them downhill so up hill it is. Does that mean it’s XC is my thing? I guess so.

Conversations about geometry and suspension.

Coffee shop & cake….

Nutty Squirrel blue routes…

Standing at the top of a technical feature and talking myself out of trying it, after 20 mins of persuading myself that I CAN DO IT…..

You forgot bike trials

Stopping and looking at my bike.

Arguing with my self about how I should and used to be better and have bigger balls than I do now…..

Having a good time with good friends. What bikes were made for IMHO!

So… serious answer time..

I’d probably excel at XC racing (short course and up to 6 hour endurance), and do fairly well in Enduros too.. Was 3rd on HT at the EX last year, 7th HT at Ard Rock a few years back too..

I’d probably do OK at DH if I had a DH bike!

I like road riding, but have lost fitness/bulked up a bit from my rapid hey day (late 2013!!)

But also, I just like twatting about on the fixie. Fixietwatting… that’s a new category for you..

DrP

My specialist skill is asking a very open ended question to my riding mates at the bottom of a long climb. They climb and talk whilst i climb and nod. If they answer too quickly a short “why is that?” should see me for a couple more minutes.

Falling off and hurting myself

the english bunny hop. I did a skills course last year and the coach said it was surprisingly effective and refined, if deeply unfashionable.

Nobeerinthefridge

Can Hike a bike be a category?

If it’s Hike a Bike across bogs in sandals, I’ve got it nailed. 🙂

Endurance heckling..

Serious(ish) answer would be 4X > DH > BMX > Enduro > XC > road stuff (if I absolutely must, like if-someone’s-holding-a-gun-to-my-OH’s-head-and-he-hasn’t-annoyed-me-for-a-month must). I prefer short-ish sprinty races but I can ride for hours at a steady potter via assorted pubs. Actually, thinking about it, there should be a multi-discipline event where you can only use one bike for the whole thing, sort of like the original supermoto races BITD…

🥇 Talking b*llocks about bikes

🥈Washing bike

🥉 Post-ride beer

I’m epic at e-biking and eating the cakes at the cafe afterwards

I kill it lounging at the local brew pub after riding.

Excuse making, really I lead the world when it comes to coming up with new and inventive ways to hide the facts I’m a bit of a wimp and don’t like peddling too hard.

I won’t race. Just like having fun. Most fun is dh, so that wins.

Actually, thinking about it, there should be a multi-discipline event where you can only use one bike for the whole thing, sort of like the original supermoto races BITD…

king/Queen of Crankworks sorts out the multi comp thing.
But I’m not sure why you’d like it to be all on the one bike for all the events?

some folk used to ride Nationals on one bike and race Xc and DH on consecutive days at the ones that had both on the same weekend.
I used to really like heckling the XCers when we were meant to be practicing DH.
It’s aw bikes eh?

Virtugo turbo app thinks my forte would be TTing, but for the last ~20 months I’ve been a hill climbing addict despite being ~80Kg; having an FTP of ~298W and just about managing ~500W for ~70 seconds on a very good day for middle aged me.

Today wasn’t a good power day, but nice to spend some time on cat4 hills in the sunshine!

What about all the other disciplines?
Cycle Speedway
TT (short/long distance)
Track sprint events
Track endurance events
HC
Trials
XC Marathon

Must be a few more. It’s going to take a while to stage this tournament!