[Closed] What are you good at?

Falling off, I get lots of practice.

I've found i'm really good at buying stuff.

Getting old.

I am, I'm told, an old fashioned rouleur. I can sit at the front of a road group at a good pace on flat or rolling terrain for a good period of time. However, ask for accelerations or hit a climb and I quickly drop back. Pure diesel you see.

Axe throwing and commuunikashun

Breathing, I get lots of practice.

Prevarication, task avoidance and spending disparate amounts of time responding to inane forum threads when I should really be doing some work.. 😀

That and breaking stuff. Mainly chains at the moment.

I'm also getting very proficient at purchasing.

In terms of riding then climbing for sure. But I think that's a function of only being 9 stone than any other innate ability. I am atrocious at sprinting.

I like climbing and manuals,doubles smaller tables

patience.

I'm pretty good at applying bandages. I've been bandaged up by nurses etc and they tend to get baggy around joints and work loose, but when I do it myself they usually stay in place and are less annoying (I'm currently sat in the office with bandages covering the oozing road rash on my ankle and elbow)!

Eating cake at the stops. 8)
Having most fun. 8) 8)

Procrastination. If there was an Olympic category, I'd never get round to entering. Spending more time sorting all the gear out for a bikepacking trip than the trip itself.

Hoarding loads of bike stuff....

I'm pretty good at applying bandages. I've been bandaged up by nurses etc and they tend to get baggy around joints and work loose, but when I do it myself they usually stay in place and are less annoying

Ahhh a natural St John Ambulance volunteer* if ever I've heard one

Me? Wasting time on the internet..

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*They are great really

Ahhh a natural St John Ambulance volunteer* if ever I've heard one

Sorry, what I meant was [i]pretty good at applying bandages [b]to myself![/b][/i] I'm not nice enough to bother helping other people 🙄

Yeah pretty good on the climbs

Start off farcically slow and gradually wind it up through the gears click-click-click until it feels like I'm on an ebike. Really enjoy it

Hot on the brakes as well

Hopeless at going downhill. Well not so much hopeless as CBA.

Moaning. I moan about everything. oh and finding excuses to why i am moaning. also getting angry about the lack of excuses to why i'm rubbish at certain things.
I do like a climb though and i would generally say thats what i'm best at.

Talking pish.

Snot rockets. I seem to need fire off a lot when I'm on the bike, especially climbs.

Commuter racing on my singlespeed, big legs, shortish commute, I can bug *most* roadies on it for a while at least.

Not all, there's one guy lives near me who is a thoroghbread racing snake - and I can't hold a candle to him, it makes me sad!

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Good at climbing, on the flat I feel that I have to work a lot harder to keep up with people who struggle to keep up on climbs. My descending is adequate to the task too

Coloir coordination of bike builds.
They always look nice, even when being ridden slowly and gracelessly by me...

mincing

bottling drops

casing jumps

Mountain domestique. I can sit on the front and keep a good even tempo uphill until it gets near the top and all my friends will blast past me. I much prefer sitting on the front than trying to keep on someone else's wheel.

spinning my legs stupidly fast (once hit 229rpm)

Had the chain come off?

i didn't have the chain attached 🙂

Bitching and whining.

Also making excuses and calming people down.

Oh yes, and shooting things.

Riding Wise, as boring as it sounds - I'm 'solid' I can ride pretty much anything competently, not fast, not flashy but smoothly and usually with plenty of control. It's not some magic skill of course - it's just age, injury and responsibility means I ride most things at 8/10ths.

I like to think I'm go at pacing too, I rarely top the friends league on Strava for some 300m rocky descent, but whole trails / rides I do very well, I've taken to riding whole trails without stopping where I can.

God dam I sound boring.

Nothing. Jack of all trades...

Riding lots of different bikes.

Stopping a *lot* when riding with a trailer to keep it fun for the bigger little one! (will see soon how much the little little one likes stopping).

Obsessing over the engineering side of bikes (but still not spending massive amounts on top end components)

spotting spellnig mistakes

I'm broadly ok at everything, but not particularly good at anything.
I guess I think I'm good at endurance/ resilience riding but need to test myself at some point e.g. 24hr solo racing or multi-day audaxing.

Road : cornering
Off-Road : climbing
Off-Bike : buying bike stuff

Absolutely average in all riding abilities
Middle of the pack up and down

I'm physiologically a natural sprinter, but I've done lots of endurance training to offset that. I'm quite powerful so I can do pretty well on the flat for a decent amount of time on the road, and on the MTB I'm handy on technical singletrack. I seem to be able to power out of corners quickly compared to other riders, so I do well when it's windy.

However I'm pretty heavy (not all of it's fat, but plenty is) which means I'm shit at climbing. Or rather, just slow - I enjoy it, and I can sit on the rivet pretty well for long climbs, I'm just nowhere near quick enough and the good guys just pull away into the distance. Often in races I'll keep up with the elites on the flat and downs, but on the climbs I've got no chance.

I don't really know much about my ultra endurance capabilities.. I've done a 24 hour solo but I was a bit too fed up of it (and inexperienced) to properly push it; have no desire to do another. I was pretty pleased (in the end) with my trans cambrian way ride, and I think with more experience and training for that kind of thing I'd do better.

I think I'm pretty good at eating, on and off the bike - which is good when doing long distance stuff, and bad when trying to lose weight.

I'm also good in really hot weather, which has a lot of riders complaining. I might be good at altitude too because every time I've been over 10,000ft I've not really noticed where others have. I'd love to test this theory out more.

This sounds like I'm making myself out to be some kind of hero but being a slow climber due to extra weight pretty much kills any other advantages!

In pretty good at riding my local trails quickly.
Away from home I'm rubbish.

At the moment, it would appear to be breaking bones - 4th hospital visit in 8 years from falling off one bike or another.
I have the right amount of stubbornness to be a good climber... but like cake too much to be able to do anything spectacular with it

Lying and clearing massive road gaps!!

According to others, I'm good at riding rigid singlespeeds ( or at least the one I have anyway). I'm also ok at steep, technical descents as long as they're reasonably grippy. Long, greasy chutes put the fear of death in me.
That's why I prefer riding in hot, dry places (like Greece) rather than greasy slopfests - I'm ok with 35 degree+ temps. too.

Any part of mountain biking that involves reckless disregard for personal safety and not much skill.

So smashing my way through lumpy steep stuff as fast as I can

Climbing and sprinting. Really need to work on my endurance though. I cramp up easily on longer rides.

Schralping teh gnat.

Being the best sponsored but least skilled rider in the UK.

My biggest strength is climbing. Biggest weakness - jumping.

Eating chillies , bloody luv food full of chillies and sweating I can sweat my own body weight on a normal ride - not a good combination.

skill: jumping away from a bike when it goes out from under me

failing: I'm a really talentless mincing descender, primarily due to a lack of practice

can you see a pattern 🙂

I used to think I had a decent sprint, since starting racing on the track I realised I don't.... Where I do OK is repeated hard efforts above threshold, recover and do it again. My overall level is still pretty poor, but making progress.

I'm not bad on the 'buying bike stuff' front either...

Suffering the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune.

I'm good at eating Chillies as well Lol.
But on the bike.... solid all round on and offroad, raced on and off for years, never really challenged the podiums but respectable. What I am good at especially considering my 55yrs is putting down big 1-2 mins bursts of power. Got pages of Strava kom's sprinting up short power climbs,powering along undulating roads and trails. Couple of minutes max then it goes pear shape very quickly. Definitely a one trick pony 🙁

I'm pretty awesome at buying a great bike (Whyte G150) then instantly worrying that I've bought the wrong one because despite the fact that it's super comfortable, far more capable than I'll ever be, and that I've put some higher rise Renthal bars on it to reduce the 'problem', due to the fact that I'm quite a tall guy the seat sits a bit higher than the handlebars at full extension (Reverb).

Spellling. I'm rilly gud at spellling.

Pretty good at slow balance-based stuff, and loose rocks. A strange combination I know, but there you go.

Talking to myself
Gurning like Wurzel Gummidge on ecstasy
Picking the shittest, most dead end line seemingly at will
Being fairly determined once I've got something in my head. Usually involves a climb.

Im told im good at looking like a mass murderer, also not bad at being a gobshite and general tosser of epic proportions. 😀

Eating.

Going on holiday. (Assuming I've planned it)

Off the bike? Airports..
Reckon I have some decent strava times if they existed for getting from the plane to clearing immigration in several Australian airports.

On the bike - I do a good line in suffering when I'm in the mood for it, and with some extra fitness I realise I've become more tactical in races along with looking like the beer swilling enduro rider who can shift a bit on the XC bike