[Closed] what is your favourite riding photo of you and why?

Can't embed it directly due to the sharing settings, but it's this one

https://www.flickr.com/photos/marwood/3885493688/in/faves-n_b_t/

EDIT - STW has automagically embedded it. Fab.

EDIT 2 - forgot the "why". Cracking day - we built marwood's bike up, then took it out for a test ride and played with a new camera he was reviewing. And it makes me look cool as ****

I quite like this one

https://www.flickr.com/photos/simondbarnes/10297485233/in/album-72157636551826526/

MY favourite isn't online (blame photobucket) - I'm splashing through a stream and you can only see my bike and leg. It's my fave cos you can't see my stupid face! 😀

This one is 2nd, it's nicely lit and makes me look like I can actually ride... Just a shame about the tongueofconcentration!

Probably this one, it's from the WEMBO European 24hr Champs last year in Slovakia where I achieved what I set out to do, get on the podium as a soloist in a Major 24hr race.

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This one reminds me of how much fun the bmx was, work and family mean it gets ridden less and less

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Big ride in the Peisey kind-of area in 2011, loads of perfect Alpine singletrack - my legs tired trying to keep up with a couple of younger, fitter riders. Somehow managing it by pumping and flowing down the descents and digging deep on the flat and climbs. Utterly empty by the time we reached the train station down in the valley...

I give up!

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Bit busy perhaps, but love the colours and memories.

This one of my son and I taken at a mountain bike marathon event late last year. The weather was biblically wet all day, but he never stopped pushing nor even considered retiring. It encapsulated all of the cool things that cycling can bring for kids and we both refer to this day quite often as a benchmark for grim weather!

I’m not a fan of having my photo taken, but this from last year

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because it was the first Spring like weekend after all that snow. It’s also in the Elan Valley where I love riding, and I was with all my mates.

I like this one.
it was taken by a fantastic bloke, Deejay, on a stw ride.
I weighed 17 stone on the nail, and the day after I was in the heart unit at LGI with a heart problem.

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and this one, apart from the silly old bloke on the shyte bike.
when I did my first offroad ride with said heart problem, on a ebike (before they were fashionable.)

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Probably this one, not because it's a particularly good photo (it's not, even the hi-res one is a bit blurry!) and I look like a bit of a spaced out idiot, but it was the final round of the British XC series in 2007, and the culmination of a year of really good racing, where I'd come 2nd in 7 different races and not won one, and this was basically the last race of the season at Coed y Brenin, where I'd not have expected to win, and I did, fairly convincingly, which was very satisfying!

Only the Sport category, but I was happy. I never went as quickly again!

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theres a good one of me falling off (again) in GT7 and sliding towards the camera.

And a good one of me splashing through a puddle somewhere high up during ssuk2017.

On my way to my best race result (mid pack @ the stainburn chainless challenge)

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same day..

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I just really like this picture, no real reason other than a sunny day riding bikes.

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Impressed by this one from last year - Robert and I set off from a refuge hut at dawn and he got this pic that captures up what I like in riding. Me, small; landscape, big.

And this one - hike a bike in the most incredible place I've taken a bike ('taken' rather than ridden, we didn't ride them much but when we did ... almost had to pinch myself). Summed up the trip which was silly hard but all done with really great company.

Can I have two please?

I am pretty much always the one taking photographs, and nobody I ride with ever seems to so I have a huge collection of pictures of riding in epic places, and on almost all of them, I'm behind the camera. Oh well.

Forest of Dean, ****tin about in the quarry a few years back. The dust was about six inches deep so it would have been insanity not to send a few skids, schralpin on my old Transition hardtail.

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Then this one. Just an xc ride in the long hot summer in the beautiful Cotswolds, somewhere near Guiting Power.

A Ford in the road. Again, insanity not to see how much of a bow wave I could create on the fatty 🤘😊🤘

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I like this one- it makes my head feel big and reminds me of when I was fast.

I also like this one from last year - an afternoon in the sun mucking about on bikes in a field with pot plants marking the corners of a dual slalom track.

blurred, out of focus, poor composition. but taken on the fly on the last day heading out of the icelandic highlands towards civilisation.

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I've shared this one before, taken just last summer (Will 'the summer of 2018' be a thing?). I'm on mt bike, in Yorkshire, its blummin gorgeous, I'm going like stink and look how happy I am!

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Still my favourite. My first ever EWS, and still the toughest race I've done. It was the year of Crankzilla. Mid pack mediocrity was a result!

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So this one from the end of last year. Because i just like it.

and this one from a few years ago on the tops with some of the folks from CMBC. Hot sweaty, knackered and just enjoying the ride.

Me (on the right) with Terrahawk. Not actually on a bike, but everything to do with bikes.

Goob memories.

Just reminds me of good morning riding in a local race, usually I'm either pictured pushing or standing looking down on something I have broken.

My DNA so sort of counts. The day he 'got it'

Still my favourite. My first ever EWS, and still the toughest race I’ve done. It was the year of Crankzilla. Mid pack mediocrity was a result!

At least you got a stone cold Instabanger out of it.

I like your pic too Snotrag.

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Duston area of Northampton before they started building on it(just near Harlestone firs) there were 12ft take offs sculpted perfectly for jump bikes😊

Before children and responsibilities 🤔

Suns out.
Near the Swiss/Italian border.
That's not to like.
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Jam bo's needs to be bookmarked for use in every helmet thread. Glorious. 🙂
I have no pictures of me on a bike!

TJ would be proud...

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I don't have many of me as i'm the one often taking them, usually of my mate who's struggling 🙂

But this one was BPW a week or so after it opened and brilliant memories of an epic place. Most of the other pics would have my now 10 year old lad in rather than me.

This one in particular
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FoD last year and a 3rd place in the Enduro.

this one

madeira photo

taken in madeira last year, just conveys the riding round there really well.

Ps - is there any way to directly embed a google drive image in a post rather than a link?

This is an ace thread. 🙂

Probably this one in full concentration mode at the 2015 Ard' Rock, my first ever race. It's a decent pic (even if my tounge is out 🙂 )and brings back good memory's.

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Far too many yo pick from
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Fully Old School
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Racing XC on the wrong bike
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Self Shot Go Pro getting over the fear
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Back at Pearce DH for the first time since 2012? Welcome Home/Birthday present from a mate
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Oh and going Full Enduro in Finale!!

Yeah can't just have 1

If nothing else, I am so glad I’m not the only one with a “concentration face” on action photos...... I tend to puff my cheeks out when schralping. Cool, it is not.

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Quite like this one in Lake Garda. Just because the Lake is stunning.

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Bit of BPW...

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Or this one - wheezing my way around the Brighton Big Dog

apart from making my nose look enormous, the view was stunning.

If nothing else, I am so glad I’m not the only one with a “concentration face” on action photos……

We should form a club...

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First time hitting 50:01 at Revs following my lad in. Maybe the first lad & dad on it.

Seeing if I could really whip at Leogang

Hitting X-line road gap for maybe the last time before I’m 50

2018 Basque flow train. Highlight of a year of mint rides

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Torridon loop on a lefty xc bike 🙈

Taken by a photographer who was covering a running race from a fair distance away! I rode past him and he offered the snaps for free
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Gnarly one
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and this one, apart from the silly old bloke on the shyte bike.

You cheeky baarstard Ton!

Here's to ya big lad...

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Don't think I have a particular favourite of me. Maybe this one just cos of where it was taken..

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Taken by my wife on New Years Day during a bimble along the beach. Not trying to be rad or do anything fancy, just a nice atmospheric shot.

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From our trip to Snowdon late last year. Had some big days out but nothing like that. Had everything (just squeezed into a few hours!).

Loch Ericht

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Cos he got my best side and the gate, cheers Dan 😉

This one. Because its a great section of singletrack, I was flying, saw the snapper and compressed into a tiny lip. You'd be lucky to slip more than an energy bar under my tyres normally, still can't work out if this is a cruel illusion, or that I am really 18" off the ground.

As always, the singlespeed hardtail seems better than the full susser at eeking out that bit more fun from the trails.

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My instant thought was this. Staged, but I don’t care. Worked out far better than I thought and very happy memories if a cracking holiday.

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Or this, descending Lowerman on my Yeti ASR-C. Before I killed it on Sticks Pass

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Heading down from 2600m-ish in the Dolomites. Hire bike, crap tyres and lots of concentration. Ride was on bedrock, then alpine meadow, then a steep bit of about 2km that was beyond my abilities in a group followed by a hurtle into the restaurant grounds.

Brecon cyclocross, most people were running this bank but I could ride it. Took Andy a bit by suprise 😁

Extra points for spotting Cynic-al....

May not even be me (I could've taken it of my mate or it could be a total stranger)

Who cares? reminds me of a brilliant week in Chatel. Drove over in my mate's utterly ****ed Fiesta, crammed right to the top with stuff. I'd never actually ridden on a mountain before but me and the Zaskar did a bit of mincing bike park akshun and we had a bloody good laugh

... and it's quite a good shot, I think

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Not got that many photos of me riding. I'm usually the one behind the camera, so they tend to be from events or a rare 'selfie' session.

I guess I should choose one like this that has some cool scenery and makes me look vaguely competent on a bike...

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But actually, I think my favourite is this one. Not impressive, full of gnar, or even stylish but I love it as an image and it just makes me think of riding and smiling.

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This one from when I took part in the Steel Valley Ride last year as I have both wheels off the ground

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This one:

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Because its quite stunning, but also it followed a year where I'd got my first podium and I started to take racing seriously and did rather better than I expect in Battle of the Beach.

...beacuse its the epitome (for me) of my first year being coached and me doing things properly and "just getting on with it" having gone the right way about obtaining a bike, training etc, you can see - and this is after 6 hours of the Pivot 12h - how physically fit I became through my efforts. At that point I was virtual 7th for my efforts and I really started to believe in my racing. Unfortunately what that also shows is the shoulder/neck issue I have which meant I was struggling to keep my head up and forced me to retire into obscurity 2 hours later.

Still, it gives me hope enough to motivate me strongly.

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Quite hard to pick one, all my best rides have been family ones

First trip out to Verbier with the girls aged 6 and 8. Would never have guessed 15 years later we would still all be biking together

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Pila last year on the latest Alps trip

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This one still brings a tear to my eye after a season of injury after injury
Proud mum moment

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Fairly obvious, this one. Bit old now, but a reminder that its much easier to just DO stuff, than to fret about it. I'd not hit anything sizeable in about a year, saw it, looked at it once, pushed up and just sent.

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The story of this summer. New hardtail, great evening rides. Rocks.

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Proper riding in proper mountains

@tracey. The photo of the girls is fantastic. It’s faublous to see how they grown up and continued riding

Yeah tracey, brilliant pics 😁

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Just like the 3d effect really!

I don't have too many...I'm usually the one taking the pics ..
These two were also taken by myself using the "smile " feature on my phone ( you just shout smile and it takes a pic)
The first one was probably my favourite solo ride last year ..an early a.m.ride and the conditions on the trail were as near to perfection as you can get..Bolts Law in the North Pennines..

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This one taken at my local trail centre..Kielder on the Osprey Chick section of trail ..for no particular reason other than it took ages to capture a very staged shot !

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Not a pic of me riding, but related - the day my wife and I decided to up sticks and move to Somerset. It's on the Quantocks in May 2016 and that's my eldest running back down to Staple Plain. We were living there by December. I'm smitten with the place, I'd ride it every day if I could.

Taken by Peter Poddy (I think?) at a Swinley Sexyparty 8 years ago!

Like - lack of ginger on the trails, I was well ahead of the wide bar, chunky tyres, and 1x drivetrain curve and it was a cracking good ride to boot.

^^ 'ere, that was the same day I took one of my fave photos 😀 was a superb day!

Too many to choose from! I'm gonna randomly pick this one for memories of an awesome time riding miles from anywhere in proper mountains (Chilcotins, Canada, 2017)

Well Flickr decided to delete a load of my images despite system saying only 1000 images left...

But not actually on bike, but i love this one from first big fat bike bivvy trip with Andy and Bolton Jon of this parish, riding and sleeping on the beaches of the Outer Hebrides 6 years ago now..

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