[Closed] What cycling discipline are you strongest at ?

Falling off!

AA was too quick with the same response as me. I fell of riding up a simple hill the other day. Glasses steamed up so went to remove them and missed a rock sticking up and over the handlebars I go! Nice Garmin imprint on my stomach.

I genuinely wouldn't shine in any event there. Downhill on the road is about the only place that I can outshine my peers!

Fettlin'

Wandering around the scenery looking for picnic spots. Me and t'missus are champion picnicers. Mind you I am not sure this is a competative event.

Spectating.

pushing uphill.

#noshameinpushing

Bike cleaning. By the end of the season it would be podium position for me.

The only bicycle race I have ever won was the slow bicycle race at school sports day, aged about 9, but I don’t see that on your list.

I’ve also won the Wight Diamond Crazy Golf Challenge, but that was largely because we were the only ones doing it, we invented it and did it for about five years running when we should have been doing the proper event, and eventually the Trail Break guys gave us a prize (a golf ball each).

So if it involves riding slowly and stopping regularly to be a bit of a dick, I’m in 👍

Cake eating.

Messing about and bimbling

Long distance - I can go slow for ages.
and if faffing pre ride was an event ,I'd be the World champ.

BEST EVENT
Eating jelly babies to keep me going.

WHY
I’m diabetic and there’s lots of easy to eat energy

In truth, and it’s not on the list.
First few miles of all,I go out always like a rocket, and suffer later.
So the shortest discipline would be my best.

My mates say go steady not Stoddy.

Hill climbing. All of my KOMs and top 10 times are up hill (on road and gravel)

I would have added BMX if it were 35 years ago when I was very quick round the local tracks but that speed is just a memory now.

Having just checked my Garmin it appears my 'mincing' profile has the most miles on it this year...

24hr XC, by far my best event. Then if I had to pick from that list, it’d be XC

Faffing at the start of the ride

Losing the tool I’ve just put down

Is there a raffle? I hope there's a raffle.

Purchasing useless bling.

Bimbling around until i reach the top of a hill. Things tend to do downhill quickly after that.

Definitely cake eating. But I'd be top-ten in espresso drinking too.

I'm not very fast or very skillful compared to my friends, however, I am very stubborn and have the ability to just keep going so I guess long distance endurance as my friends would get bored and give up before me.

Berating the mechanical ineptitude of others... and then spending 3 hours making a non-tubeless tyre fail to inflate on a tubeless wheel.

Steep 1 minute climbs. Or road bike descents in mountains, tend to be overtaking most of the way in big events although starting from mid pack obscurity at the top.

One of my proudest moments was being congratulated by an old French guy who had followed me down the Portillon during the Haute Route Alps.

Used to be single speeding in that I would regularly beat people on their 21 speed new fangled gadgets but these days CX.

Commute Road Raging. Podium place, no doubt.

5-10 years ago when i was in my 30's i would of said Bmx

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2-3 years ago i would of said road bike (averaged 250 miles a week, every week)

Right now, nothing, have a baby so time is limited but did buy a e-mtb so i could have more fun in a short amount of time, although im doing ok against other mates with e-mtb's in our little challenges

My best would probably be Downhill, not because I'm amazing at it, just because its bloody terrifying and great fun

Right now - nothing.
I suppose when i'm fit, the only one of those I race (a bit) is xc so i'll have to pick xc. I am getting tempted by enduro though. Seems to be lots of local races, so I will have a go at some point.

I thought I was going to be funny by saying "maintenance" but I was beaten to it by over 2 hours and I'm not even that good at it.

I did once win a 12 hour XC race, although it was a small field, so I'd have to say that. Not true any longer - I don'd have so much time to ride enough any more!

Explaining the finer points of my bike to strangers who never asked for the information.

Eating crisps.

"Peers"?
I had to google the term to be sure of it's actual meaning. Turns out it means your equal and seems to be age related and if you're good enough at something you can apparenly be "peerless"
I'm way more skilled, stylish and confident on a bike than 99% of folk my age but probably fairly average fitness wise these days apart from strength.
so...

DH is probably the only genuine competitive event I could still excel in my age category at but I honestly have no interest in competing anymore.

I do love doing whips and mannys though so probably those. (seeing as most 49yr olds can't do either)

I would say staring out of the window procrastinating just long enough so that i don't actually have time to ride anymore because we need to f***ing to go to ikea.

Race bike prep.
I am gold medal material.
I don't care what happens after the flag drops,but I loathe mechanical failures that steal any placings in an event.

If there was an xc hill climb then probably that. I'm not ballsy/skillful enough to be anything more than midpack in an xc race; all the time i make up climbing i loose by mincing down the b-lines. For the same reason I would nver dare try an enduro or DH race!

CX on the other hand, I feel my bike handling is better than a lot of the roadies and my fitness is good enough to get a few top tens each season. When I think about it that puts me in the top 1/4 to 1/3 of the pack so not actually that much better than my xc results. But for some reason I percieve it as better so that's my best discipline. I also enjoy it more, which lets face it is the most important thing when you are jsut messing around on bikes on the weekend

Technical climbing - unfortunately there isn't an event for that 🙁

Downhill.

I'm a little uncomfortable with bigging myself up but always been comfortable and in amongst the quickest with riding peers (even if I do say so myself).

Did a few races years ago and did well but quickly got annoyed with the cost versus standing around in queues with your bike waiting for an uplift ratio. Always a bit sketchy under pressure of racing too. Much better just with mates. 🙂

Never really had the riding time available and hence the fitness for enduro, too chunky for xc and no interest in riding around fields anyway.

I am the world champion beer tourer,

That bit where you stop for a chat and to catch your breath.

im doing ok against other mates with e-mtb’s in our little challenges

That sounds a bit like a cookery competition where you all show up with a takeaway 😉

...with no judging. Just eating Bez.
ie. The BEST kind of cookery competition?

Probably carb loading would be my best event as I'm not fit enough for xc, don't have the stamina for endurance events, never ridden a BMX in my life, haven't got the balls for DH, so that leaves enduro. Never done one, but pretty sure I`d be amazing at it 😉

Can Hike a bike be a category?

1.
Bike and beer.
2.
Beer and bike.

Too many non-MTB categories in that list btw - RR Crit? wtf even is that shit? racing round Waitrose?.

RR Crit? wtf even is that shit? racing round Waitrose?.

hillingdon, Abingdon etc, you know short circuit multi-lap road bike events. 60 mins or so flat out... it's quite popular on here.

So, capture it under 'Road' then, it's all on tarmac, on a drop barred bike.

Then we’ll put DH, XC, trials, 4X, DJ and everything else under “off-road”, yeah? It’s all on dirt, on a broadly flat-barred bike.

Really guys ? We're going to get all pedantic about a couple of random catagories i wrote ?

Sheesh.... come on... join in the fun, lets not get all crazy 🙂

Technical climbing – unfortunately there isn’t an event for that 🙁

Same think I'd do quite well at that.

Is there a category for Defensive Cycling? I reckon Geex is a shoo-in 😉

Then we’ll put DH, XC, trials, 4X, DJ and everything else under “off-road”, yeah? It’s all on dirt, on a broadly flat-barred bike.

How dare I, want to talk MTB on a MTB forum....

I'm out.

That sounds a bit like a cookery competition where you all show up with a takeaway 😉

Lol we all enjoy it and even some of our non e-mtb mates are borrowing e-mtbs and joining in, some of them are super fit on a normal bike and are surprised that they can still knacker themselves out on an e-mtb

Long distance road riding. So it makes complete sense that the only events I've entered this year are all the rounds of the Welsh Enduro Series!

Reading forums.

BimbleCore.

Berating the mechanical ineptitude of others…

Oh this very much, ..I can however turn my rant mode to almost anything, champion complainer.

I can do long distances quite well, on the road I’ll never win a bunch sprint or be first up a climb, but I can sit on the front for a while and give out a little hurt. I recover pretty well so multi-day events work well for me.

Off road it’s techy climbs, my handling skills are pretty good but I’m to much of a coward to use them downhill so up hill it is. Does that mean it’s XC is my thing? I guess so.

Conversations about geometry and suspension.

Coffee shop & cake....

Nutty Squirrel blue routes...

Standing at the top of a technical feature and talking myself out of trying it, after 20 mins of persuading myself that I CAN DO IT.....

You forgot bike trials

Stopping and looking at my bike.

Arguing with my self about how I should and used to be better and have bigger balls than I do now.....

Having a good time with good friends. What bikes were made for IMHO!

So... serious answer time..

I'd probably excel at XC racing (short course and up to 6 hour endurance), and do fairly well in Enduros too.. Was 3rd on HT at the EX last year, 7th HT at Ard Rock a few years back too..

I'd probably do OK at DH if I had a DH bike!

I like road riding, but have lost fitness/bulked up a bit from my rapid hey day (late 2013!!)

But also, I just like ****ting about on the fixie. Fixie****ting... that's a new category for you..

DrP

My specialist skill is asking a very open ended question to my riding mates at the bottom of a long climb. They climb and talk whilst i climb and nod. If they answer too quickly a short "why is that?" should see me for a couple more minutes.

Falling off and hurting myself

the english bunny hop. I did a skills course last year and the coach said it was surprisingly effective and refined, if deeply unfashionable.

Nobeerinthefridge

Can Hike a bike be a category?

If it's Hike a Bike across bogs in sandals, I've got it nailed. 🙂

Endurance heckling..

Serious(ish) answer would be 4X > DH > BMX > Enduro > XC > road stuff (if I absolutely must, like if-someone's-holding-a-gun-to-my-OH's-head-and-he-hasn't-annoyed-me-for-a-month must). I prefer short-ish sprinty races but I can ride for hours at a steady potter via assorted pubs. Actually, thinking about it, there should be a multi-discipline event where you can only use one bike for the whole thing, sort of like the original supermoto races BITD...

🥇 Talking b*llocks about bikes

🥈Washing bike

🥉 Post-ride beer

I'm epic at e-biking and eating the cakes at the cafe afterwards

I kill it lounging at the local brew pub after riding.

Excuse making, really I lead the world when it comes to coming up with new and inventive ways to hide the facts I'm a bit of a wimp and don't like peddling too hard.

I won't race. Just like having fun. Most fun is dh, so that wins.

Actually, thinking about it, there should be a multi-discipline event where you can only use one bike for the whole thing, sort of like the original supermoto races BITD…

king/Queen of Crankworks sorts out the multi comp thing.
But I'm not sure why you'd like it to be all on the one bike for all the events?

some folk used to ride Nationals on one bike and race Xc and DH on consecutive days at the ones that had both on the same weekend.
I used to really like heckling the XCers when we were meant to be practicing DH.
It's aw bikes eh?

Virtugo turbo app thinks my forte would be TTing, but for the last ~20 months I've been a hill climbing addict despite being ~80Kg; having an FTP of ~298W and just about managing ~500W for ~70 seconds on a very good day for middle aged me.

Today wasn't a good power day, but nice to spend some time on cat4 hills in the sunshine!

What about all the other disciplines?
Cycle Speedway
TT (short/long distance)
Track sprint events
Track endurance events
HC
Trials
XC Marathon

Must be a few more. It's going to take a while to stage this tournament!