[Closed] Hey! You there! Are you a bit crap? Never fear, you have friends...

My user name says it all. I’m in.

I’m in, no skill whatsoever

I would but I lack your confidence.

bike handling prowess of Dougie Lampkin (ask your dad)

Bloody hell Kickstart and Junior Kickstart were brilliant programs!!

I'm in @IHN. I feel I more than meet the membership criteria as no doubt a fellow forumite will fully attest to

I'm not great at downhill, tend to 'take my time' but I've not been doing serious MTB for that long, and I've bits missing from my spine.

I'm OK uphill, but two of my riding buddies are seriously quick road cyclists, who MTB also, so keeping up with them uphill is a struggle, and one is a nutcase downhill.

I'll join !

Could we just push our expensive bikes to the pub and get drunk in the beer garden whilst complementing each other on how nice our latest factory chris axs live valve king upgrade looks?

That's the essence of mountain bike for me.

Perfect for me - no skills, no fitness and poor heart health!

I don't have any riding buddies though.

I’m in - bring the RUCKUS!!!

With a couple of years of intensive training I might one day be good enough to be considered for RUCKUS membership.

bike handling prowess of Dougie Lampkin (ask your dad)

As an aside, I ride past Dougie Lampkin's house fairly regularly. He's got a very big trials area built in his front garden.

And I met Martin Lamkin and Malcolm Rathmell at the Church Tavern sections at Pontsticill sometime in the late seventies.Amazing to meet your heroes as a child.

May I refer you to @pook's concept of the Peak Pootle

https://singletrackmag.com/forum/topic/peaks-pootle-blimey/

1) if you’re fast, hold the gates and count the folks through
2) if you’re slow – have something to talk about with the other 20 people with you
3) bring cake
Pootles aren’t a typical ‘group ride’. I started them ‘cos I hated being the person at the back. I wanted a group ride for the people at the back. There aren’t any people at the back in a pootle.

Aye, I suppose RUCKUS would be the spiritual successor to the Pootle.

Can I bring my E Bike and give you buggers something to chase 😬😬😬😬😬

bike handling prowess of Dougie Lampkin (ask your dad)

I used to watch Arthur Lampkin on the telly on a Saturday (scrambling).

I like it. Been riding for 30 years and still can't manual consistently. Intimidated by small log drops.

As someone who's always erred on the side of caution, I have noticed a correlation amongst people I've known/know, between 'fearlessness' and injury (sometimes quite serious). A couple of people I know who were keen skateboarders as youngsters, and suffered quite serious head injuries, now display symptoms that could well be attributed to brain injury. As a kid, I was always far happier to let someone else hurt themselves, in order to learn. And it's all the fearless kids who now seem to have those long lasting, sometimes quite debilitating, injuries and conditions. My own injuries have been relatively problematic, but I consider myself pretty lucky. My strategy for being able to continue enjoying life, is to perhaps take it a little more slowly, and not get hurt. The body doesn't heal so well once you're middle aged and above. I think RUCKUS is a great idea.

Been riding for 30 years and still can’t manual consistently.

The implication that you can manual at all points to a skillset above typical RUCKUS levels.

What's a manual? Do we get a tufty club style badge?

What’s a manual

Its a book that tells you how to do things, I think

I’m in if there’s stickers😁.and cake there must be cake 🍰

It's easy to get this wrong...here's some help

Manual

Manuel

Yes! Even when I was at my best I wasn't [i]that[/i] good. And now I'm crap.
I used to attempt most things (and usually fail), but now my bottle has gone too.
And man, I could sprint up climbs! But now my heart is ****ed, so I cant even do that!
Oh, but I still love it (and I ain't getting no shitting ebike!)

Discretion is definitely on the increase round these parts.

I went for Swinley's Kerbs of Doom the other day instead of the Drops of Doom as it was a bit quiet and if I cocked it up and hurt myself again, there was nobody there to help me.

Happy to attend any events held by the Southern Chapter of RUCKUS.

". . .  Dougie Lampkin (ask your dad)"
Ask your dad?  I'm old enough to be Dougie's mother!

At least if I came on a RUCKUS ride, you'd all realise that you're a LOT better than you think you are.

I’m pretty good downhill, but my fitness has always been crap even when I tried my hardest for a while for it to increase. So uphills are slow. Very slow.
I go out to ride for fun though, have done for 30+ years, so I’m not too bothered.

Yep, count me amongst the ranks of RUKUS.

Happy to join in, I can show folk around the funner bits of Calderdale if you want rides to plan?

Hopeless is my middle name - I'm in! 🙂

Zero skills and very mediocre fitness here....up for a meet.

Count me in, I'm rubbish AND unfit

No, I'm not just a "bit" crap. Sign me up for life membership. Fitness isn't bad for an old feller but I never had much bottle and you'd be amazed at some of the things I won't attempt. But it's OK, we have gravel biking now for people who want an excuse to ride tame trails 🙂

Shonky is my middle name,

RUCKUS sounds good to me, especially after a couple of crashes in the last couple of years have totally destroyed what little confidence and competence I may have had.

I used to be a brand ambassador and group ride leader for FLAB - Fat Lad at the Back - so I feel I have experience to offer....

yes to all of the op can i also join please 👍

ps don't let my username fool you,i do not race in any way shape or form.

Here's my application. I'm crap.
But I love it.

matt_outandabout

Shonky is my middle name

Another Dad "riding vicariously" ? 😀 Makes ya proud eh? Kid must've inherited those skillz from somewhere!

I'm here for this too - I'm ok fitness-wise but when it comes to anything remotely steep or rough I'm such a mincer

@nobbingsford finally a group we could be proud to be members of. Unlike Team Biketragic back in the day... 🤣

I LOVE this. I'm in.

I've always been slow, I have a fixed-up wonky heart, I have zero bike fitness having not ridden for several years now (for reasons which definitely belong in the TLDR category), and when I do finally get back on two wheels my previous modest level of technical skills will surely have deserted me, along with the shattered remnants of my confidence.

Ask your dad?  I’m old enough to be Dougie’s mother!

😂

@fazzini, I made the shirts for Team Biketragic, which one of my band of fools were you?

Another keen to join RUKUS member from Essex here

where are we all from?

@oldnick - I believe we must have been a rogue, duplicitous, self-aggrandising version . Clearly no official status or affiliation to your brand. Perhaps even a breach of copyright....ssshhhh don't tell anyone 😉

I am thinking of forming the Rubbish and Unfit Cyclists Kindness and Understanding Society.

Erm isn't that what this forum is for?

Will there be a t-shirt (for Mrs S to ruin in the washer)?

I'm in if there is. Mincing downhill is the future.

where are we all from?

From or stay?

Mussoorie, India and Dunblane, Scotland... 😊

Erm isn’t that what this forum is for?

No, we are the Bloming Ignorant & Gobby, Rubbish and Unfit Cyclists Kindness and Understanding Society.

That is BIG RUCKUS.

#splitter

@Sandwich I’m doodling logos as we speak, really should get back to work ha ha

Count me in. I'm definitely more Know Fear than No Fear and have a lack of skills to match.

Right, well, this seems to have hit a chord with many.

where are we all from?

I'm in the Peak (Disley), after years in the Cotswolds. A perfect storm of

a) having not really mountain biked much for years
b) it's a lot harder up here than down there
c) I was crap before anyway,

means that's it currently a bit of a trial-by-fire.

Anyhoo, I'm going to head out after work if anyone fancies a short-notice RUCKUS-ride.

Asking for a friend, is this an "all the gear no idea" group or are cheapskate people with no gear & still no idea still allowed to join?

"Dougie Lampkin ask yer dad" - more like ask yer son 😕

Erm isn’t that what this forum is for?

No way. There are some really good riders on the forum. I know at least 2 of the vile gits 😆

Am I allowed to bring my 26" 3x10 or will people laugh at my bike as well as my ineptitude ?

Asking for a friend, is this an “all the gear no idea” group or are cheapskate people with no gear & still no idea still allowed to join?

The main joining criteria is no idea, ownership or not of any or all of the gear is inconsequential.

Am I allowed to bring my 26″ 3×10 or will people laugh at my bike as well as my ineptitude ?

I won't be laughing, I'll be gasping in awe at the fact that you have one more cog on your cassette than me...

I’m going to head out after work if anyone fancies a short-notice RUCKUS-ride.

My legs are too tired from doing 5 miles offroad last night. Oh yes, 5 whole miles*.
Well, that and it would be about a 4 hour drive 😀

*Not that I ever measure these things, cos that would be a record of how crap I am. And who wants that!?

I ride today so that I can ride tomorrow.

What I find amusing (well, I find it amusing [b]now[/b] - 15 years ago I'd have found it embarrassing and annoying) is how much better I was then.

I used to race XC at a pretty reasonable level, I've been MTBing in Spain, Utah, the Alps etc, I've done big days out...
If I tried any of those things now or anything more rad than a 4" kerb, I'd be broken into little pieces.

All the gear and no idea here - this sounds perfect for me

I was watching a great vid the other day on just this subject. some 'normal' blokes entered the megavalanche and took the course slow, stopping at all the rocky drops, and riding the course int he way you'd expect your granny to ride it.
All in all, and i suppose this is the real point, that appeared to have a hell of a fun time and by the time they finished it looked like everyone had gone home and the bbq was finished.

Found vid 😀
Actually in watching it you can see that many of the riders are exactly the same, and ride it slowly with much stopping and a greater deal of bottling 😆

How about MUTHARUCKUS?

Gotta be one of the best videos for showing what the Mega is really like! Great stuff 🙂

My feelings for this are best expressed by Jasper carrot

"The meek shall inherit the Earth"

"Well if the meek want it they can have it. I just don't want any fuss"

Am i being sucked into joining a fearsome band of ex pros who will chew me up and leave me for dead

For better or worse we don't have grading like rock climbing. I'll turn up hoping to be pottering up V Diffs and it turns out everyone else meant lower E grades as they just aren't as good as they were

Well, if Crazy-legs is in, then perhaps I can be in. I have always had a 'healthy' attitude to risk... Like I don't like taking any. Can I join too please? 🙂

If this is a group for washed up and broken minor has-beens, almost-wases and general bumblers, then I'm in.

I’ll turn up hoping to be pottering up V Diffs and it turns out everyone else meant lower E grades as they just aren’t as good as they were

The intention is very much that it's a V Diff kinda thing, maybe stretching up to HVS if we're feeling ballsy

Assuming you guys aren't the MTB equivalent of handicap bandits then please count me in. I'm ideally placed for NW/WY rides and hold a full house - crap, slow, unfit, old and budget compromised. Who wouldn't want to ride with me?

Crikey, I thought I was the only one on here who wasn't a riding god. 30-odd years and still fairly crap. Mind you, I've got an e-bike now ....

I believe I’m at the necessary skill level to be the treasurer or secretary of RUCKUS’ north lancs division. I’m in as long as I get a badge. Strava / guide book times get doubled in this house.

Thank goodness there are others like me.

On trails that I know I can sort of give the impression that I know what I'm doing, but put me on an unfamiliar trail and/or ground conditions I'm not used to and I can get brake clenching gut wrenching "I'll walk this bit" fear over any random obstacle. This is exacerbated by MrsP being far more confident/competent than me in such conditions and sailing on without a care. Do I qualify for a restricted membership?

I’m in!! I can finally share with pride the scars on the backs of my calves from where the pedals have caught me as I walk my bike down techy stuff!!

I’ll turn up hoping to be pottering up V Diffs

This may on the ambitious side for the putative club (certainly is for the Eastern Division).

I mean, firstly we need to sort out the cafe stop surely?

The intention is very much that it’s a V Diff kinda thing, maybe stretching up to HVS if we’re feeling ballsy

Not that long ago I taught my son to lead and certainly led a couple of VSs so feeling smug

I'm in. Wonky heart, not really bionic knee, glass wrists and scared to come off and break any of my working body parts. 51 yo grandad of three, I'm also bald.🤣

I'd actually thought several times of creating a local 'Bumbleurs' group relaxed rides, cake and coffee. As opposed to our only cycling club which is solely interested in TTs and group rides with a minimum age speed of 27kph.

Anyone coming to Shetland I'll happily do a short ride to a long cafe stop with you 😜

At the top of the first downhill on the first Ruckus ride.
"after you"
"no after you as your bound to be faster than me"
"honestly I am crap you go in front of me as I will only slow you down"

20 minutes later....
"are you sure because I'm really slow"
"not as slow as me"
Etc etc..

Count me in for Ruckus ride.

I’m slow up the hill and evened slower down the other side.
Count me in if there is a Belfast branch!

Aye, I suppose RUCKUS would be the spiritual successor to the Pootle.

Ah this is ace to see, proud to see the pootle legacy continues!

I may finally have found my people! 🙏😂

I'd be up for a bit of a RUCKUS. East Lancs based and definitely lacking in skills.