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During the time I've been on this forum I have noticed hundred of threads where people moan about the condition of trail centres and how rough they are, this appears to be happening more frequently in recent weeks and months and is something that I find quite bizarre and highly amusing - MOUNTAIN BIKERS MOANING ABOUT ROUGH TRAILS. I dont know about you, but I think mountain biking would not be mountain biking if it was all on smooth manicured paths.
May I suggest that people who think that is mountain biking start their own forum "KittyLitterWorld" may be a good name for it.
SBZ, the Internet is a very big place I believe, but you really are wasting it.
Applauds brycey.
OK, I'll bite.
On second thoughts, I'll delete what I was going to say and leave it to someone else...
These are mountains
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You hopefully know what a bike is.
SBZ stylin' it up on his local mountain, last week:
I'd say those are hills rather than mountains. They're all under 1000m.
I can see my last Munro in that pic!
Since the definition of a mountain in the UK is any land over 600m then what [i]you'd[/i] say is irrelevant..dan1980 - Member
I'd say those are hills rather than mountains. They're all under 1000m.
Could you?
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Well most other people would call them mountains.
who cares. if you think you are mountain biking then you are
I call them 'Mountings'.
Because it amuses me. 🙂
Hear hear SBZ!
I've just got in from an impromptu hour and half blast around my local trails.
All the stuff that I normally never get the chance to do-
Some great cheeky trails I've only seen before, step sections and a few jumps.
Had to heave my bike over fences, barbed wire and styles.
Had a great old time 😀
I like muddy, peaty, rooty, and rocky trails.
Not endless numb hard packed quarry chippings.
People who were mountain bikers before trail centres are more likely understand this.
No one has ever ridden the Cuillin ridge.
whatever happened to the coffee room? could this post get moved there?
Don't be so bloody patronising. Is this a "who mountain biked first" thread as well as the old anti-trail centre cliche? I get frustrated sometimes by the sanitation, over-biking and over-armouring, then I remember it's all irrelevant. If people are out enjoying themselves on a single speed rigid or an 8" DH rather than playing golf or some other sh1te, that's all that matters.
It's actually intended as a lets laugh at people who moan about riding rough trails and be thankful for what we've got thread.
The only rideable trails on Skye that are not bog or a precipice are in the valleys, or can you proove otherwise.
Hooray... 😆
To be fair to SBZ, he's not complaining about folk enjoying themselves on any sort of trail - just about those moaning about the state of the trail centres.
Edit: I was typing that as SBZ was typing his previous response.
I'm talking to Waderider
Since the definition of a mountain in the UK is any land over 600m then what you'd say is irrelevant..
Just so I know, and so that I can avoid it happening to me in the future, what crawled up your arse and made you decide to be unpleasant this evening?
I didn't say anything about stating a standard definition, was giving my opinion, to which I'm entitled to, regardless of how wrong you may think it is. Fundamentally this is an irreverent thread, so why take it so seriously and come across as being unpleasant? Does it make you feel all big and important? Does it give you a little buzz inside. Are you trying to make up for your own inadequacies and feel you should be unpleasant to people who don't hold your view of the world?
Perhaps you didn't sleep much last night and are grumpy, perhaps you've had a bad day at work. When I'm grumpy I go out on my bike and I ride for a while around bridleways near where I live. Sometimes I go and look at the ducks at the local park with their funny walks. Occasionally I'll go and treat myself to something nice from the local deli, or buy myself something new. Every so often, when I'm feeling particularly cross with the world, I'll let my pet mice run around my lounge and I'll watch their funny antics. Maybe I'd even put my favorite music on, on my mp3 player and listen to it for a while whilst doing a crossword or a sodoku puzzle.
What I don't do, is come and take my grump out on random people I don't know on the internet. So please, if you're in a mood don't post things that come across as nasty to people. It's just not nice, and the world would be a much friendlier place if we could all just get along.
If you're not in a mood, and just being an arse, the same things about being friendly to people still applies.
Thanks
🙂
Since the definition of a mountain in the UK is any land over 600m then what you'd say is irrelevant..
That's because we don't really have any mountains.
Dan1980 - are you sure about that?
Brycey - If you feel patronised it doesn't bother me, I don't know you, and am just stating my opinion.
Feel free not to read or respond to my posts in the future.
Sure about what SBZ?
What are you thinking SBZ - is Dan1980 mibbe over-reacting a tad?
"People who were mountain bikers before trail centres are more likely understand this."
A wee bit patronising no?
Dan1980 - 1st sentence 4th paragraph. You sure you dont take grumps out on people you dont know?
Druidh - I'm suspecting he lives in the flatlands so has a reason to be bitter.
I'll bite. I love rocky trails, generally the rockier the better, but I'm not that into badly maintained trail centres where there's loads of braking bumps and washed out berms.
The single worst thing about this place is the way people love to look down on other riders for some perceived faux pas.
.Perhaps you didn't sleep much last night and are grumpy
patronising is good when used in certain ways......... 8)
I do most of my biking around New Mills in the Peak district, the area isn't particularly flat.
I do tend to keep my grumpyness to myself on the internet. That doesn't stop me being an arse when the mood takes me though. I do generally feel bad afterwards though and think about peace, love and all that jazz to to my fellow man.
jedi - Member
who cares. if you think you are mountain biking then you are
What if your on a road bike riding on a road wearing armour and baggies, thinking your mtb'ing. Are you mountain biking then?
Thought not!! In your face Jedi, in your face
[b]dan1980[/b]
that was all a big joke, right?
Right?
In that case, wouldn't I be Sleepy?[img]TheBrick - Member
Perhaps you didn't sleep much last night and are grumpy
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you think, therefore you are
I agree with the OP...
I think dan1980 has issues 😯
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You think he's got issues?
I've just bought a 'Hello Kitty' bike, just need to sort out what tyres, some Spuds (and I do mean potatoes carved into pedal shapes) for optimum necessary pedal efficiency and some nut cutlet vegan energy bars so I can take this cycling lark ever so seriously.
I think I'm ready for the gnar. 😈
sbz, you didnt have to search for that. it was in your favourites 🙂
It's his profile pic.
(Not sure that i'll ever do a google search for party boy ever again right enough)
Why teh **** did I go and google search that 🙄
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If some trail centres are well mainted, others try very hard, and others were never built right in the first place, [b]doesn't the nation need to know?[/b]
Personally, I really do find it appalling when I go mountain biking and find rough bumpy trails with a difficult, unpredictable surface that can be challenging to ride. Terrible state of affairs. Especially when all those blasted roots and rocks cause numerous pedal strikes! Must be a design flaw with the bike!
Add on ebay for some fox forks
Fox 36 R Talas. 2008.
These forks are complete overkill for me, I bought them when I assumed I was going to be a naturally talented downhill / freeride / all mountain rider whose speed was only matched by his bravery.
Much to my disappointment it turns out that the mere sight of a rocky section makes me quiver with apprehension and the thought of my wheels leaving the ground induces feelings of sickness which I can only assume is a mild form of vertigo.
They're in very good condition, the stanchions have no marks whatsoever and the travel adjust is working perfectly. There are however a few small marks on the lowers, embarrassingly these have been caused by putting the bike in the car, I've never really gone fast enough to crash. There has been some cable rub on the crown which can easily be covered up with a rub patch or such like.
These forks have never really been used as they are intended to be be so they've got plenty of life left in them.
Stearer is 184mm.
There are more pictures here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/siphoned/sets/72157626571333935/
UK Bidders only please.
someone off here maybe 😉
Dan1980
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Calm down dear.
I must be half blind and deaf, never heard or seen anyone complaining about rough trails in trail centres, other than the occasional moan about braking bumps into corners.
Well I was doing a bit of expletive deleted stuff the other day. Followed an overgrown abandoned trail for a few miles and it ended in a 7' high deer fence (and my bike weighs 40lbs)
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I love that bike.
Right chaps, fight in the park after school TODAY.
Nicky Cruz rules: blades, chains, and zips.
We're sorting this out once and for all...
DrP