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Does anyone ride anymore or is everyone blasting these days? "Went for a quick blast" seems to be the prefered term for "rode my bike".

I don't think I've ever blasted. I've ambled, minced and bimbled. How do you ride yours?


 
Posted : 19/11/2017 6:49 pm
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Amble, pootle, meander, wander.


 
Posted : 19/11/2017 6:50 pm
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Hack.. I hack.


 
Posted : 19/11/2017 6:50 pm
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That will be the vaping Bikebouy


 
Posted : 19/11/2017 6:51 pm
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Fight. I had a fight today on the cross bike.


 
Posted : 19/11/2017 6:52 pm
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it's pretty much smash, thrash or blast everything here

... but as soon as they enverbify "awesome" I'll be awesoming everywhere instead


 
Posted : 19/11/2017 6:53 pm
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I have mused on the terminology used to describe riding fairly recently.

It's all 'shredding, slaying, killing it, bossing it'.

Pretty aggressive stuff, like the trail is a thing that needs dominating.

TBH, I don't really understand it.


 
Posted : 19/11/2017 6:54 pm
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If I'm on my enduro weapon then I don't really have any choice but to go for a blast - destroying berms, perhaps even annihilating entire trails.

I don't necessarily like it, but what else can I do?


 
Posted : 19/11/2017 6:56 pm
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A spin.

'Cos I have no soup.


 
Posted : 19/11/2017 6:58 pm
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I blast.... Or strava win. Shred the gnaaaarrrrrrrrr. Ave it.... Send it.... Spin.... Win....

But normally just go for a bloody ride in the rain and then complain.


 
Posted : 19/11/2017 7:00 pm
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You can only go for a quick blast, everything else is an epic


 
Posted : 19/11/2017 7:01 pm
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I bimbled today


 
Posted : 19/11/2017 7:02 pm
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You can only go for a quick blast, everything else is an epic

You forgot death march.
You're allowed to get drunk and fall asleep in the bath after a death march.

I think it goes Bimble, Pootle, Spin, Ride, Blast, Trudge, Epic, Death March.
Well, that's what we called our kids, anyway.


 
Posted : 19/11/2017 7:07 pm
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I "close it down".


 
Posted : 19/11/2017 7:08 pm
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I bimble or pootle. My Strava times are usually better than when I attempt to blast 😀


 
Posted : 19/11/2017 7:08 pm
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I always genuinely thought a blast was a quick paced ride (measured exclusively by your own standards) or one where you ride a little harder than your all afternoon peace around something that was predominantly single-track or twisty/sharp stuff but only when you don't have much time. The road version is similar but without the fun aspects of some nice single-track and added diesel fumes.

For me a blast would be - a 2 hour ride around the local trail centre wheezing a lot but pushing myself to ride each section as hard as my mediocre skills would allow.

Sending it on the other hand - is for parcels i.e.
Team CRC has been sending it to the max this week = Christmas shopping has started and there's a lot of black Friday deals on.


 
Posted : 19/11/2017 7:24 pm
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I own my shreddage to teh maxx.


 
Posted : 19/11/2017 7:30 pm
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I own my shreddage to teh maxx.

Your autocorrect seems to be on the blink, I think you were trying to say:

"My own shreddies are from TK Maxx"?


 
Posted : 19/11/2017 7:35 pm
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[roadie] I popped in a ton on Friday morning, which translated as a pretty steady ride. But this morning I smashed out 90 as it was full gas. I think I only deviate from this when I race. When I go out on the MTB, I just go for a ride? [\roadie]


 
Posted : 19/11/2017 7:35 pm
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It depends. 😉


 
Posted : 19/11/2017 7:37 pm
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Occassionalyl blast, mainly mince


 
Posted : 19/11/2017 7:39 pm
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Definitely ride as blast sounds like you went hard and fast, something I don't do.


 
Posted : 19/11/2017 7:40 pm
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My personal bugbear is "schralp". I've not idea how one would go about schralping, but it doesn't sound very healthy.


 
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My personal bugbear is "schralp". I've not idea how one would go about schralping,

You probably have to [i]get rowdy [/i]first (my own pet peeve).


 
Posted : 19/11/2017 7:51 pm
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Nothing new about blasting. I've been going on quick blasts for decades. Sometimes I wish I was more about the epic mince with a bit of bimble-gnar thrown in. But those days are rare.


 
Posted : 19/11/2017 7:58 pm
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'Off for a quick blat' - very similar to a blast.


 
Posted : 19/11/2017 8:01 pm
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Oi, that’s my blasted saying! Leave off ya blasting blabbering fool!

Oh yheah, I tore it upand roosted having been out for a blast yesterday 😛


 
Posted : 19/11/2017 8:04 pm
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Props, braw.


 
Posted : 19/11/2017 8:05 pm
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Intervals, social pace, threshold home. Yesterday, on a bike.


 
Posted : 19/11/2017 8:15 pm
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Intervals, social pace, threshold home.

Villages in Surrey?
😉


 
Posted : 19/11/2017 8:18 pm
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I usually go for a struggle, grimace, air gulps and freewheel ... to the max rad power of 10 dude


 
Posted : 19/11/2017 9:29 pm
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I will be giving it a good fisting tomorrow. Until I am tired, then I will be pushing.


 
Posted : 19/11/2017 10:08 pm
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I usually go for a struggle, grimace, air gulps and freewheel ... to the max rad power of 10 dude

Like I said above then. 😛


 
Posted : 19/11/2017 10:17 pm
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Ride. I go for a ride.
Plain & simple/boring.

It’s like having the heating on Full Blast.
It’s never [i]actually[/i] made any kind of sound akin to a blasting sound, however high it’s turned up.

It’s this reference to activities with the word “cheeky” that makes me tut.


 
Posted : 19/11/2017 10:54 pm
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I float. I roll. I am slow.


 
Posted : 19/11/2017 11:01 pm
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Nothing wrong with a cheeky ride...

For those times when you [i]really[/i] should be doing something else but, "ahh, sod it, go on then" :mrgreen:


 
Posted : 19/11/2017 11:01 pm
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A "carry" mostly 😆


 
Posted : 20/11/2017 9:18 am
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I enjoy going for 'a razz'


 
Posted : 20/11/2017 9:24 am
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If in search of a new route, it's a 'mooch'..


 
Posted : 20/11/2017 9:27 am
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I used to do an hour of power.
Now a gentle trot.


 
Posted : 20/11/2017 9:28 am
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schralping

I have a big problem with this,I genuinely cannot pronounce it..

Really.


 
Posted : 20/11/2017 9:29 am
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We usually just go for a 'ride' but sometimes I'll pop out for a quick blast about, usually no more than half an hour of skids and wheelies and riding down stairs and other adolescent stuff, if I fancy. I tend not to shred, schralp, own, boss or kill anything much. Mooching's good though, followed by a bimble along the same bit of whatever you've previously mooched along, with a flask of tea and a cheese sarnie, obvs. You can fit a mooch into a bimble, but you [s]can't[/s] shouldn't bimble while mooching, that's just rude.


 
Posted : 20/11/2017 9:34 am
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If it's in a group ..its a ride .
If I'm solo ..its a pootle or a mooch aboot ( pootle is when I know where I'm going ..a mooch is more of an explore somewhere new).


 
Posted : 20/11/2017 9:54 am
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Mate of mine is constantly asking if I want to go enduroing.

Can’t work out if he’s joking...


 
Posted : 20/11/2017 11:11 am
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Blast is fine. It has been used for a long time.

it's 'hooning' that gets my goat. I can imagine people saying this who wear their collars popped and have tribal tattoos despite being from Milton Keynes.


 
Posted : 20/11/2017 11:29 am
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I drop in.


 
Posted : 20/11/2017 11:32 am
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Mate of mine is constantly asking if I want to go enduroing.

I've been known to use "enduro" as a verb, always with tongue firmly in cheek obvs.


 
Posted : 20/11/2017 11:33 am
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I've heard people saying they're going to Hamsters to do 'enduro practice'. Surely that's just riding around a trail centre, isn't it? Or is it case of if you race than any other ride out is 'training' or 'practice', ie not just for the sheer unbridled fun of it?.


 
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Why Blast when you can...

M E G A B L A S T !!!

'enduro practice' = cheating Kayla 😉


 
Posted : 20/11/2017 3:26 pm
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I can imagine people saying this who wear their collars popped and have tribal tattoos despite being from Milton Keynes.

Everyone in Milton Keynes goes for "a blast up Woburn". It was part of the inspiration for this thread.


 
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If in search of a new route, it's a 'mooch'..

No, that's a schnurgle 😉


 
Posted : 20/11/2017 3:33 pm
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I'm not one for keeping up with the latest lingo, but surely "blast" is a valid one for those rides when you've not got the usual amount of time, so you go shorter, but harder? - "a quick blast"


 
Posted : 20/11/2017 3:43 pm
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If go for a thrash, or a smash about the trails, it's a short, anti-social, just me, waiting for no-one ride, hurting myself up the the hills and hoping not to down again.

I don't know about "blast". It seems to imply more speed than "thrash", which describes the effort and perhaps the visual effect, but not the attainment.


 
Posted : 20/11/2017 5:12 pm
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I was going to do some cycling later but I have no idea what to call it now.


 
Posted : 20/11/2017 7:20 pm
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Spookily I went for a blast this morning, unfortunately it was Bi Lateral Analysis and Stimulation Treatment which deals with clearing the after effects of trauma, no bikes involved. This blast is very weird stuff (but seems to work)!


 
Posted : 20/11/2017 7:38 pm
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I enjoy going for 'a razz

I also like to avail myself of a razz.., occasionally raising my effort to add a braap braap.


 
Posted : 20/11/2017 9:30 pm

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