Just been browsing the Leisure Lakes brochure and counted 20 different mountain biking genres before giving up. My favourites were “over mountain” and “big mountain”. You can even buy not just a freeride bike but a FULL ON freeride bike!
Niche-less.
I am not a mountain biker a downhiller, an xc weightweenie, gay boy, fan boi, foodie or a surfer, I am toys19 and I enjoy various activities.
*old goth (therefore most rides will be stopped to look a ruined abbey to feel all melancholic do a little backwardsy/forwardsy dance whilst waving arms about and all bikes must be blacker than blackthing in a coal sack, preferably with skulls and “fields of the nephilim” sprayed on it somewhere)
failing that I quite like pink bikes with baskets and bells