Who is the best UK bike rider?

If they were to all have a go at each others discipline who would be the best all rounder?

My money is on Cav.

nah its me

isnt he a bit of a one trick pony? though with a bit of practice he might make a wicked 4x rider

I am going for him because he has the endurance, speed and apparently ridiculously good bike handling skills.

Doubt I'll be the only one to say this but surely Peaty would have the potential. He had a pretty accomplished XC racing career in his early days.

nick craig

What are the rules of your competition? And are you including Trials?

I reckon it would be someone like Dan Atherton. Can handle a bike really well, uber fit and pretty good power to weight ratio I would have thought.

gee atherton?

Rules – what rules? Include whatever the hell you want. Fixie ballet might be taking it a bit far though.

Dan or Gee Atherton for sure, class at downhill but probably have the strength and fitness to be ok at xc or road stuff. They are also pretty good at bmx riding, dirt jumping and Id imagine they could ride trials too.

Id imagine all the road/xc riders will be **** at anything that involves ome sort of technical ability over fitness

59ttp – I'm not so sure about the road/xc riders being crap technically. Having watched some of them at close quarters this year they have phenomenal amounts of skill. Hmmm Killeen might be a winner too.

me

MBUK did a range of fitness tests on a range of different discipline mountain bikers (trials, DH, XC, dirt jump) and I'm pretty sure Peaty came out on top in most areas they tested and came out top overall

59ttp – I'm not so sure about the road/xc riders being crap technically. Having watched some of them at close quarters this year they have phenomenal amounts of skill. Hmmm Killeen might be a winner too.

Yeh maybe not crap, but give em a bmx and ask them to get through a set of 25 foot doubles, I'd doubt whether many would be able to do it.

Elbry

I'm not so sure about the road/xc riders being crap technically.

I'd be pretty confident that a top DH rider would give a good performance on the road, but I don't think it would work the other way automatically.

Fitness aside, I don't think the roadies would have the balls for DH stuff straight away.

Chris Akrigg

Actually, Chris Akrigg is a very good shout having seen him race XC and DH

Its between Elbry and Richie McCoy imo.

Though really maybe Gee Atherton. I'd have thought Andy Barlow would do ok as well.

sorry but it would be Ian Wilkinson all day

Jamie Staff for the win.

World champ in BMX and on the track

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Wilkinson_(cyclist)

Wilko all day

truth is prob liam killeen. rides motocross, can handle a bike, top at XC, think he's in the sky road team, small chap but would like to see him on a DH rig.

i'll second Andy Barlow

Killeen has a big engine but not really proved himself on the road yet

Andy Barlow leave it out mate

I can see where the Andy Barlow thing is coming from – first class DH rider in XC clothing.

3rd akrigg – trials, XC, DH, and i bet hes pretty handy on the road – great all-rounder imo. reckon most of the others would fall apart on the trials section of a comp, or at least have more of a disadvantage on them than akrigg would have in the other disciplines.

andy barlow might be up there in a scottish context, but not so sure UK wide. imo of course (and i know he is a HELL of a lot better than me…!)

I only said I thought me might do ok – based on being scottish xc champ and pretty handy at DH plus a former BMXer etc

has been so long that everyones forgoten the man the legend that is
JASON MCROY aka JMC http://www.jasonmcroy.com/jmc/index.php he rode for the joy of riding came back from impossable odds and won everything he entered rest in peice my man and injoy the trails in the sky

you're just lucky I live overseas…. 🙄

I'm going Gee Atherton at this moment in time…

Wasn't it the bloke who won the Singletrack Lee Quarry event back in the summer? Surely that has to be the definitive all round biker event. And he rode the transwales…

Don't think many DHers would stand a chance against some of the XCers, let alone the roadies. Didn't know the Liam Killean road MX tho, he could be in with a shout.

JMC all the way

Chris Akrigg
good rider in all mountain disciplines (including brakeless trials)

Craig Hardie… Scottish Cross Champ, XC winner, DH winner, road racer.

Elbry, surely?

Elbry does indeed have the laid back rock star style over the big acid drops, but I'm going with Gee – DH, 4X, plus he's had a bash at slopestyle competitions and the Mega and didn't disgrace himself.

Dan or Gee Atherton. They would probably get blown away on the track and road by people who ride those disciplines, but would still finish in one piece, which I think is more than could be said for some of the XC/track/road riders on a DH course or BMX track.

which I think is more than could be said for some of the XC/track/road riders on a DH course or BMX track.

"some" being the key word Mike. Plenty of top road and track sprinters have a BMX background. My money however would be on Killeen at the moment.

Or Elbry