[Closed] How many people on here don't actually ride an MTB?

Depends, do you call a fatbike an extreme hybrid, or a rigid MTB? 😆

Well, you at the minute for a start...

😉

I don't really "ride" my MTB, more just sit on top of it an wobble about a bit...... 😆

Me. I was always a mountain biker but got generally fed up with the faff and the needs to either ride 5 miles on the road or drive somewhere to get to the trails.

I now have a CX bike so do go off road on that, I also have 3 road bikes and a cargo bike but nothing that resembles an MTB.

I don't ride a mtb, I manhandle my steed.

What is this 'MTB' you speak of? Is it not a sled, ride or steed these days?

Gnarpedo is also acceptable.

I have one, I've not ridden it for nearly a year.

Roadying is just easier straight out of the door...

Me. My bikes were all stolen from my shed 2 years ago (uninsured) and had no cash for replacements so I got a new road bike on the bike to work scheme.

I don't ride a bike, will that do? 🙂

Ride regularly on a CX bike - 2 or 3 times a week, with the odd few weeks off here and there.

Got a Full Sus that I'm going through the I should sell it thoughts at the moment. Kept my old 90s hardtail that I ride more than my full sus.

The CX bike has killed the desire to load up the car and drive somewhere to ride a bike as there are loads of local roads and tracks to explore that always felt a bit silly on a big MTB.

I am in such a state of zen-like flow I make no distinction between the bike and I, we are one harmonius, co-existing entitity. I certainly do not 'ride' the bike, we simply co-operate towards a mutual endevour for speed.

Unfortunately this sometimes makes getting off embarrasing when i forget to unclip

Gnarpedo? Am I going to have to sell my gnarpoon to fund the deposit for one of those?

I've not MTBd in 8 weeks due to a broken wrist.

I'm allowed now, but I'm not going to have time this weekend (marathon training/mum visiting/DIY to be done) and I have a TT next week I want to be fresh for, but I am plotting about when I could fit an MTB ride in.

Piss off Luke 🙄 😉

Me, I ride a CXer & Roadie.

I used to own a Niner One9 SS but sold that 2 years ago to a mate as it wasn't being used.

I shouldn't really be on here.

I rode my XC bike last night for the first time in about 6 months. Had a problem with the garmin and lost the ride, it's not on strava so I'm now doubting it actually happened 😕

Edit... though the state of my arms from hugely overgrown brambles would suggest that it did happen!

I shouldn't really be on here.

I'm a roadie [whisper]and a tester[/whisper] so definitely shouldn't be on here!

Mainly just ride my tripster.. Swap between wheelsets for road / xc

since the twins popped out 8 weeks ago mtbing has not been that frequent an occurence, nor has uninterrupted sleep 🙂

saying that, I missed the early train today and I was on my hardtail (commuter has a puncture too busy/tired to fix) so i snuck into the disused car park behind the station to mess around on the cheeky jumps the local yoof had built

Just a gnarbobber for hucking around on here

I don't, I rode for 21 years and then one day I found a carbon road bike dumped in the brook behind my house, took it to the Police who gave it back a month later and I never rode the poor old Global again. The Ti frame is about to go on Ebay. I feel bad about it because I was once so fanatical about mountain biking that it drove my family mad, something they occasionally tease me about. But I have no interest in the mud and the chore of cleaning and maintaining the bike and kit. I'm even thinking of selling the Tricross to help fund the rather naughty Italian race bike I've just bought.

Far too much road riding and racing for me these days. I have loads of great trails on my doorstep, but last time I rode a mountain bike? Strava says 5th May!

I did get a KOM tho 😉

CX and Road but the mtb is gaining dust - classifieds if it doesn't get used this summer.

Lack of time (crap excuse, I know) has forced my riding more & more onto the roads.
I ride so infrequently at the moment & when I do it has to be a 'get out & get it done' type ride, that it invariably ends up being on the road.
Off-road stuff on the doorstep is non-existent in my area, which doesn't help.

The days of weekend all-day jaunts up to the peak district or weekends in Wales are a distant memory for the time being, due to Dad responsibilities.

I've resigned myself to it for the moment & am looking forward to the days when I can start to get out on the mountain bike again - 26" wheels & triple chainsets might have come back into fashion again, so I should be all set!!

My bike was worn out and a deeply unfashionable build so another reason for stripping it and Ebaying the bits.

And yes, the days of the Friday afternoon car trip somewhere to ride, walk or climb for the weekend are long gone; the traffic is so bad I'd rather stay at home and ride from my front door.

Only time I've ridden my MTB this year has been round the park with the kids.
I do enjoy it, but time pressures mean I get more out of a 2-hour road ride straight from my front door, than out of an MTB ride which normally involves driving to a location/cleaning afterwards.

I'd sell it but I do use it when out for a ride with the kids, and a battered 2010 26" wheeled Boardman isn't worth a bean.

I sold a nice Boardman Hybrid last year, in hindsight I should have sold the MTB.

I sit in my cockpit and shred the sled

My MTBing is now reduced to canal tow path and bridleways after move to a new area where trail access is poor or to far away so I am CX ing and road mainly, but its due to location not desire.

I've very rarely ridden mine since we had kids. Road riding is just much easier to fit into life.

I jumped on the dandyhorse bandwagon fad a few years ago, then it died a death quite quickly. I've had mine on classifieds for ages with no takers.

I am not really feeling the MTB love at the moment.

A shite winter followed by a shite summer, injuries and illness, no quickly accessible riding for a fast jaunt and lack of free time have all compounded into one great lump of demotivation.

I don't own a mountain bike. Not even a CX bike. Nothing with tyres wider than 25c here.

sometimes have to force myself out, especially when weather is crap. Road bike can be easier option - it's all riding though, and I do often have to tell myself to mtfu and remember when I was too ill to ride at all.....

This is fascinating actually as I can see my story in these posts. Mid'ish 90s I was racing National Sport cc, to get better/fitter/stronger, I started to train on a road bike and never rode my MTB again. Then I raced road and track until family pressures meant even that was not possible (weekend travel plu 15hrs plus training plus career etc).

Now Im back on an MTB because the kids have grown and love the dirt jumps and its just a giggle, bike parks are a laugh and the trails such as they are my way are quiet as everyone's out riding the roads in their Team SKY kit on carbon speed weapons 🙄

Forgive me father for I have sinned - it has been over a year since my last MTB ride.

I have a 5 hanging on the wall of the garage that could be described as low mileage at the moment.

Cruiser BMX is more fun in less time, with less mess and possible closer to home, but I really miss the mud and the fun of MTB. Probably get it back out in September for some late summer weekend warrioring.

Nope almost never ride my mtb, a combination of time restraints and not liking the segmentation of the whole scene; now to many folk think pushing bikes acceptable as its so Enduro 👿

Not ridden properly for a couple of years now - just family plods.

Lack of time, being Dad-Taxi to a 13 year old and as we both work full-time the need to balance family life with 'me' time.

Mountain biking takes up a lot of time, and I'd rather not do it than ride once a fortnight and feel rubbish every time I went out.

I'll get back to it one day, until then the bikes will remain in the shed.

So I'm not the only non MTB rider here. Well I do have one hanging in the shed but these days if I'm going to the hills I'll usually take the dog not the MTB. Still riding my tourer locally and getting away for a tour here and there.

Sold my last mtb in a moment of mega-skintness associated with buying a house...

Can't see me getting another any time soon. The time I used to spend biking I now just go hillrunning instead, which gives me a similar buzz but is much, much cheaper.

Mtb free here now too ... After years of travel and faff/ever changing standards and added on drivel I've never enjoying
Biking as much 😀

More riding less down time 🙂

Cx and road bikes only

Still have 2 mtb's but they rarely get ridden these days. I did go for a local ride the other night though, but got the front wheel stuck in a ditch and went OTB's!! I should probably just give up!!

I am zen like ferrals 8) except I generally dismount OTB. 😆

Never quite got the whole "road riding is less faff" thing, surely if you're putting in some effort you will still need a shower and wash your kit?

They will be screwing the lid down before I give up my MTB, hopefully.

Sold my last mtb a few months ago, it hadnt been ridden fir a year or teo before that.

I dont want to ride cheeky trails cos its anti social and a decent trail centre is 200 miles away.

I still MTB,but I do far more miles on the road bike or CX.
As with a lot of people a day on the mountain bike also involves a car journey & getting all the mud off when I get home.
The road bike, or CX for off road light, just mean pedaling from home,admitted the CX bike often gets covered in mud but at least there's no car journey involved.

Been out three times this year. Once was in California so nice and dry, once was a race around Ashton Court but the other was local and it took me ages to clean my bike. My trails haven't dried out at all so I'm perfectly happy doing 150 miles / week on lanes on my Grade. If I lived somewhere sunny and dry I'd ride a lot more off-road but it's simply a PITA during this non-summer.

Another rare MTBer these days. An MTB ride is basically a full day out for me and PhD hell + getting married really started to squeeze those a few years ago. If I'm honest at that point I was starting to moan a bit about the ratio of actual riding to travel/cleaning up anyway.

I've struggled to get back into it to the same extent since and (wait for it...) tend to do far more road riding from my front door now.

Havent ridden mine other than the odd pootle with my 5 year old son for almost 3 years. ****ing thing tried to kill me at Bike Park Wales. Plan to try again next month or so having built up my fitness on the road bike.

I think back to the carefree mid 20's and there was a group of about 20 of us....usually 12-15 would be available for the weekly Saturday morning ride, taking in all the local trails.

Fastforward 12 years - We're all just about still doing it. Mainly solo or at best in smaller groups, either ridiculously early or nocturnal - with some switching to Road rides so that the Strava stats (monthly miles) look better for the hour or so they have free...and less cleaning.

We probably get together annually for a BPW/Afan ride.

Strictly no, since I converted it to be a 26" wheeled singlespeed CX bike, and have not stolen Teen 1's trance yet. Mainly road though. No track this year either 🙁

99% of my riding is commuting, but I'd say of my riding for fun it's 90% mtb. Infact this year it's been 100% mtb for non work rides, but that makes up probably 100 miles of the 4800 I've done so far 😕

I dont want to ride cheeky trails cos its anti social and a decent trail centre is 200 miles away.

That's a reason? 😯

Since my son arrived 20 months ago ridden mtb maybe 6 times. Just takes up so much time and with other hobbies can't fit it in. I enjoy spending time with him so much I'd rather do that than ride truth be told at the moment. Just got a road bike to do rides from front door which is more time efficient.

Not been on mine since I broke my neck while riding it on 4th Oct last year...

Recovery's going well and have been out on the roady a bit, but haven't taken the plunge on the MTB yet.

Been off games for 5 weeks since I knacked my shoulder. Put some sit up and beg bars on my pub bike and tried a few miles earlier this week. Hurt like ****, put myself back a couple of weeks. 🙁

I am certainly riding mine less, the Bridalslayer and road bikes have their parts to answer for there. But I still get out on the MTB regularly and wouldn't take anything else for a big day in Wales...

So now my FatNotFat 29er wheels have been delivered, is my Voodoo Wazoo now officially an extreme hybrid once fitted, rather than a mountain bike? 😆

~1055g front
~1267g rear

With no skewers or disc rotor.

4 rides in 6 months 🙁

Half decent trails are 45 mins drive away at least. Have been thinking about getting a road bike or a cx-er which shows how serious things are ! Not sure thats going to work as I hate traffic. Probably better to work on fitness at gym so I can enjoy the MTB and/or at least manage more than 20k and 200m climbing

@aa BPW is perhaps not the place to rediscover your technique 😉 I am going to be facing something similar if I go to Alps next month

The day I fancy putting on bib shorts or whatever they are called and a peakless helmet is the day I put my head in an oven.
MTB for life.

No mtbing either for a while. With work commitments, family life the way it is and my location the mtb just doesn't get used. I use to put myself under so much pressure to go mtbing that I stopped enjoying it really and it became a hassle. I cx bike for general riding but I've found that only ever gets ridden on the road these days so now I have a full on road bike being built up which I can't wait for as we have some lovely quiet roads to go biking on round here (essex/suffolk border).

Will I go back to mtbing, at some point I think I will. I've always had one since the early nineties and I love the nostalgia of it all but it doesn't fit with how I ride at he moment. I'll have a Stanton for sale soon I'd imagine.

I have two mtbs, a road bike and a cx bike. I used
to ride the cx and road bike the most just for the convenience of a quick hour or two from the front door.
Since fitting some Jones bars on my 29er,I've been riding it the most but not really mountain biking - more relaxed road, parks, tracks etc. Took it on some proper trails yesterday for the first time this year and went over the bars. I realised a while back that I'll never be a mountain biker, more an "off road tourer".
Feel at the point now where I want to sell all my bikes and just have a Jones Plus for everything.

aa BPW is perhaps not the place to rediscover your technique

Oi PMJ - you've got a new bike! If you nowhere to ride it, come up here and ride 100km of singletrack near us 🙂

I leant my road bike to someone a while ago. Maybe a year, Not sure where it is. It's 7 years old and still on the original tyres. Does nothing for me. CX bike gets ridden occasionally but only because ether roads are so bad here.

The bit about nailing the coffin down ^^ +1

Riding in the dry last nigh, chucking the bikes between trees with dust coming up... all cycling is good of course, but MTB is just better 😉

I don't currently ride at all as I moved to South America, but I'm back in the UK after 11 months on Wednesday and will be going for my 3rd ever ride on my new-ish Jekyll ASAP. On STW as it's the only thing that keeps me sane without my bikes.

Doubt its every other month. Been like that for at least 6 years when I started banging off the gravel miles almost daily rather than twice a week. Road also takes up the other days but that's been the main thing for over 35 years

Me!

A knackered back made me sell my beloved Cotic Soul, I now have only my road & CX bikes.

This is an interesting post, I used to ride MTB lots, raced enduro for a season and I think in many ways the racing killed mtb for me. Got too serious and too expensive.

Alongside that I've always commuted by bike and recently got a sscx bike for commuting duties. And then discovered how much fun tame trails are on a rigid 700c simple bike.

And alongside all of that I got a bmx so now get my gnar points from trying to jump.

Both bmx and cx/road are less faff, less tech, less cost and less marketing but strangEly are more fun.

Guilty. I'm a roadie. I started hanging round here when I bought a MTB. I rode it a few times. The last time was well over a year ago, since I bought a cross bike that fills my off road needs. I don't do technical. But I still keep on popping in.

Is the question *really* about the (subjectively rather generic looking) modern, full-suspension 'mountain bikes'?

If it's wider than that - here's an example of I'm not really sure I understand the question:

I was out on my Vaya last night - (technically a touring bike, albeit mine has a full XT groupset and Bonty XC wheels) - riding on a mix of tarmac, rutted green lanes / farm tracks, and [even] a bit of foreshore.

So, much the same kinda riding I've done for the last 20+ years, on pretty much whatever bike I've been out on at the time. Sure some of my bikes are better suited to one end of that variation than the other, but it's really only a question of degree through most of the scope of my rides.

Names all noted...

Still riding MTB (and road, and tour and cx). Got gloriously filthy earlier today and had to hose myself down outside.

After a period of studied indifference I've been managing to get out a bit more the last 3 months (except last 3 weeks due to parent sitting) but today I did manage a two hour ride (with an old, old friend) from the house. Which was nice....

Meh, just got rid of mtb No1 (26" fs) as it wasn't being ridden. Still got the 29er that gets trotted out once a week or so.

CX bike in the shed as well that hasn't turned a wheel in 2 months 🙁

Looking forward to moving soon, trails straight out the door, commuting distance to work 🙂 more miles more smiles

I don't an mtb or ride........why?

Nearly died 11 months ago and still have a broken leg. Sold my bike but would genuinely give anything to be able to ride again. Hopefully soon

I just come here because you're all nuts

Guilty as charged. I used to be quite obsessive about it but it doesn't do what it once did for me any more. It hurts more each time now too due to old injuries and general lack of fitness. I do miss the buzz but not sure it'll ever come back. Luckily, I've now got a dog to get me out and about.

Off to batter the PBW tomorrow with a couple of likeminded middle aged lost youth seekers !

@steve healing vibes mate.

Not sure if this thread makes me feel better or worse about my lack of MTB riding. Haven't ridden regularly since third child came along over 3 years ago.

I lack time, motivation and energy. Last time I got a few hours spare and set iff after 5 minutes on the first down hill I discovered my brake calipers had siezed. £100 and a few hours later the bike us fixed but I've not been back out on it.

I need something to get my mojo going again!

Fatty Trail and Jekyll Carbon rule my life. Cannondale Bad Boy with a Lefty for commutes.
What is wrong with you road loving wierdos? Shouldn't you be on BikeRadar?

Barely ridden a bike of any description since a bout of chronic metatarsalgia back in 2013. Since then, life changes, lack of motivation, new baby, house moves and renovations, niggling foot problems and excuses have all conspired to hold me back. To put it into perspective I have ridden so little (and done so little exercise overall) that when I christened my new Trigger (a waste of money? Maybe) round the Monkey a few months back I was about half an hour slower than I used to be on my old fully rigid singlespeed. It was harder going than I hoped and certainly harder than I remembered! I'm full of good intentions but now that wee Dougie has arrived I doubt I'll be going anywhere far any time soon...

Hmm. Currently own five bikes. Two 26" full sussers, s hybrid, a SS road bike & carbon road bike.
Its a year since I last rode either mtb but I've put thousands of miles in on the road bikes in that time.
Why? A mate is more of a roadie & was training for PBP last yr so we spent a lot of time on tarmac. Ive become interested in long road rides, the ease of getting a good bout of exercise in an hour and a half in the evening is one factor, boredom with my local trails/ploughing through muck/cleaning & maintenance were others.
One big thing though, it feels like the mtb industry doesn't speak to me anymore. My expensive full suss bikes suddenly became obsolete & bikes became bigger (I'm 5'2")with wheel sizes and frames that didn't cster for me. I just don't feel 'connected' to the sport anymore for some reason - wish I knew why.
I keep thinking I should go for a mtb ride but she it comes to it thr road bike is there and its much faster...