[Closed] The bimble thread.

just about to head out on the fat bike for a follow my nose ride, no general plan just go where the trails take me, the only time the bike will leave the ground is when i lift it over a gate

Yay!

We're bimbling this afternoon.

A radical session of cross discipline interval training has been abandoned in favour of a ride to the garden centre to laugh at the Christmas tatt.

Then JJ's for a bacon butty and home.

Like the flask idea.
Tartan?

Like the flask idea.
Tartan?

Bit too jazzy for me. Good old classic brown FTW.

No flask and rarely visit trail centres, but I'm with you on the rest 🙂

Yeah, but you live in Scotland, the world is your trail centre.

Flask of tea plus an extra one of tomato soup (or Big Soup if you want extra gnar) FTW!

I much prefer a ride with a little distraction thrown in.

Say a brewery, or a cheese makers.
If you can combine any of those with a beach, then that's bimblecore.

I reckon any proper bimble should easily be rideable in Crocs?

'Bimblecore'- I'll give it three weeks until either Giant or Trek latch onto that one and release a new bike/standard/wheelsize on the back of it 😆

We love a bimble up NCR 1 via Seaham prom to my OH's mam and dad's for Sunday dinner then a slow wheeze back home, bicycles (and knees) groaning and creaking under the extra weight of three stone of meat and seventeen veg!

Yes, yes my friends. embrace the bimble...

Holy shit I hit every one of the OPs quota.

Except Cannock. Why travel that far when I have perfectly good hillocks on the south coast?

But seriously, what flask for trail riding bimbledom?.. I want the uber riding flask

Adventure not adrenaline!

'Smell the pine, not inter-face with it!'

What do we want? Tea and cake! When do we want it? About halfway through the ride if it's not too much trouble! Please. Thank you.

There's an awful lot to be said for bimbling. Most things cycling, and more so mountain biking are aimed at having the lightest, stiffest, fastest, raddest bike and kit going.

But it's not the be all and end all. For me, whilst I enjoy going flat out, measuring my pace against others and tackling ever more technical trails, that brings with it some pressure, and it's pressure I'm often aimimg to avoid by biking, so I don't want to go flat out.

A bimble is the best thing possible for me mentally, I have pretty dark moods and spells of feeling down/conflicted/lost (I hesitate to say depression as I don't think it really is and don't want to trivialise it for genuine sufferers). Just grabbing the bike and heading out with the map and only a rough idea of where I'm going to go, is so liberating.

Long live the bimblers!

This afternoon I shall be bimbling with a full on snotty head.

I only bimble

I love it

Heart rate above 160, you're not going to last
Speedo above 15, you're going too fast

You have a speedo?

You're out!

Yeah, but you live in Scotland, the world is your trail centre.

This is a very good point 😀

But what tyres for bimblecore?

Doesn't matter, as long as they weigh over a kilo each.

Yep a nice bimble with a backpack full of butties and pork pie for a nice sit down to admire the view. Pints at the end.

@fin25

The Nates on my fatbike should be OK then 😉

Have become a bimbleler, usually a 29" non sus, I'm sure I leave the ground on the odd occasion but others assure me that my bouncing inch or two doesn't count.

As long as your not doing it on purpose I think you'll probably be fine.
🙂

Raises hand, obvs

Thank god for this thread, I was beginning to think I was the only one on the forum who wasn't embracing new standards, body armour and enduro flouro

I'm in!

MoreCashThanDash - Member
embracing new standards, body armour and [s]enduro[/s] flouro

That was me in about 1990 if it helps 😆

My cross bike was my favorite and a bimble specialist (in my hands, no racing here thank you!)! Thieving scroats have stopped my bimbling! Bimbling doesn't seem to work on a enduro trail masher!

Pootling, not "bimbling".

I tick all of those boxes except the fat bike! I thought I was last man on earth who takes pleasure in a hardtail, a paper OS map and a camelback loaded with pork pies and scotch eggs!Best thread ever. Bimblecore!!

I think pootling might be a step up from bimbling?

Not sure you can pootle with a takeaway hung on your bars?

I've seen pictures of the Peaks Pootles on here.
Some people actually had gloves on.
I believe they have a picnic, which is nice, but it all looks a bit hardcore to me.

Is there such a thing as hardcore bimbling? Can it still be a bimble if it's below freezing or you're being lashed with sleet, for example?

roverpig - Member
Is there such a thing as hardcore bimbling? Can it still be a bimble if it's below freezing or you're being lashed with sleet, for example?

I'd guess that's the very essence of bimcore. Unlike other genres of bimbling, such as bimpacking or bimduro.

Rain = puddles to jump in.
Snow = fun.
Sleet = another pint, pub fire, crossword.

But seriously, what flask for trail riding bimbledom?

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Just perfect for a cuppa mid ride 8)

Feels like a club is brewing here guys..

The Chicken Runners anyone?

V666ern, you are my new best friend!

Bimble is my middle name !!
Come to think of it ,my first and last name is bimble !
Tick almost all the boxes except fat bike but do ride a plus bike so almost there 🙂

@slimjim78
im not, im your worst - I've just checked the website and they've sold out 😥

If you can combine any of those with a beach, then that's bimblecore.

Bimblecore! Word of the day.

I'm extremely bimblecore. 😛

Is there any danger of a fusion of bimblecore and jeycore?

Bimblecore! Word of the day.

Isn't he some magic bloke with a beard in Harry Potter?

I believe that's passive/aggressive mincecore lite.

There's pages of this stuff from years ago, I've come over all nostalgic....

I'll sometimes go for a laid back ride around the lanes here checking the hedges.
I suppose that's a grumble bimble?

A grimble?

Im searching the Black Friday deals for a Bimbleweeny57 sub-meson brain that I can link to an atomic vector plotter suspended in a nice hot cup of tea in order to make my rides even more improbable.

[i]* Note to h2g2 geeks (probably Cougar) - Yeah, I do know it's bramble. Thanks.[/i]

I never get invited to those sort of bimbles.

Anyway, my chariot of delight awaits.
To the park.
There may be custard.

I've just checked the website and they've sold out

Fingers crossed that Rush Cycles are actually carrying stock then, as Santa has already been informed 🙂

I'm a selective bimbler!

I sometimes enjoy pootling speeds (on and off road) and a relaxed approached to a ride including plenty of food and stops. This seems to be coming out more in the winter when the ground is slow and it makes sense to take it easy. Bimble is also the right approach to touring or bikepacking as you can enjoy the whole experience more.

Other times though, I am guilty of putting emphasis on speed, caring a little about strava, and 'smashing' a trail centre run or road hill climb. I will never own anything flouro though, only ever have HTs, and mainly use paper maps. I have also been on the look out for a bimblepacking flask...

Will be bimbling on Sunday morning. There will be some gnar (Southern version) so perhaps it's more of a pootle...

Alpkit do a couple of flasks. £10 stainless looks like it'll fit in a cage.

Nice thread by the way 🙂

If it's southern gnar (low on gnar-o-meter), then it might be more of a pimble than a pootle..?

Like the look of the alpkit flask, not sure how well it fits in a normal cage though.

"....'cause my ride is too bimblicious for ya babe"*

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*may be pootylicious. Not sure.

I was not really into bimduro, but that was before I found out you lot, had Pork pies in your camelbacks...Brilliant idea I'm in 🙂

Bimblecore energy gels.....

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*Advance Notice* Bimble photos late Sunday, please... 😀

I'm not aware of there being any other sort of riding apart from bimbling/pootling?! Well there is that stuff they do on bikes inside once every four years but they never stop for a pint after every lap.

99.9% of the rides I have done over the last 5 years (So probably about 20 in total) have just been to various pubs

The first rule of bimble club? More calories consumed than burnt

"The first rule of bimble club? More calories consumed than burnt"

That is brilliant!

I'm pretty #enduro tbh but from time to time I remember that bimbling is awesome too. The fatbike helps with this, it's an excellent bimblepoon.

Northwind - Member
The fatbike helps with this, it's an excellent [b]bimblepoon.[/b]

That sir, is pure class 😆

finding this thread is like finding my way home.

i like a mid-bimble market - to stock up on bread and cheese, and perhaps pick up a chicken for dinner later...

"The first rule of bimble club? More calories consumed than burnt"

i bimbled 22 miles, had one pot of tea and a mince pie, did some more bimbling and had a coffee and a lemon and raspberry swirl cake, then bimbled home

i have two trail 42 flasks 8)

I'm heading towards Bimbledon the older I get. Seriously thinking of swapping my current bike for something comfier for general bimbling with perhaps the occasional pootle thrown in. Can you get cycling clothes in tweed?

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Go on... 😉

I like a pork snack as much as the next man, but an entire backpack full of pork pies and scotch eggs is a little too much if you ask me.

No wonder you're all going so slow.

I just wrap a couple of pork pies in cling film, with a "side" of pork scratchings for a quick fix of pork energy.

Crap! I forgot i had a sausage roll (pork power bar) too!

I'm not sure I want to commit to full bimble - could I go 1 x sturmey archer on my full suss? with a chain guard? take it easy for a day or two, just to see?

Who has a brewery on their local bimble? I do.

So, brewery bimble to collect half a dozen favourite IPA's, via the butchers for a scotch egg (£2.50ea but once you've tried one you know where your money went) - then back via the local castle ruins to take in the view and savour the pork goodness.
Is that the ultimate bimble?

I've accidentally rediscovered the joy of bimble since busting my shoulder back in July. Still not confident it's fixed enough to risk anything rough, I have returned to my spiritual home, Bimbledon Common.
I have added some purpose by taking on the project of identifying unrecorded or misrecorded rights of way in the county, with a view to getting them added to the definitive map. This has resulted in some first rate pootles into nooks and crannies I never knew existed.
The most radical part of today's bimble involved following the line of an old waggonway, adding an industrial heritage twist.

/\ bimble of the day right there

I have a roughly 20 mile bimble planned for tomorrow. It is mainly offroad but enough flat road sections to make the choice of bike more than a grab and go. Or to put it another way, enough to make me think about the 29er HT rather than the default fatbike.

Oh the challenges of a bimble 😆

Bimbler here.....aided by a stooge in half fat mode with 1 X 10.

Quite civilised really

I'm not sure I want to commit to full bimble - could I go 1 x sturmey archer on my full suss? with a chain guard? take it easy for a day or two, just to see?

As I see it a chain guard is Mumble not nimble.

Went out for an afternoon bimble, apple strudel for pudding (hard to take that in a camelback).

Thinking about getting an e-bike (bimbletronic), but I've not seen one yet in my shade of beige.

Who else, like me, enjoys a four hour lap of Cannock?

I admire your commitment to slow, but really, 4 hours?

were you walking? 😆

I dont mean to sound elitist, but true bimblecore requires a tripple front ring, doubles are for tourists. Single??? Heathens.

I disagree. I think to bimble is a state of mind.

I have actually tried for years to become a bit more gnar, I've tried training courses, flash new gear, better tyres, elbow pads.
I always revert to bimbling. Less is more.