Had a voodoo Wang's for last years riding. 2.4, 100mm solo air. 521 hope wheels. 660mm bars 80mm stem. Ran eggbeaters.
I would generally do cannock in an hour and a half without a break and be up there in terms of speed and descending but always sorta tense and didn't really trust the way the bike turned in. I know I'm fit.
With my mate we did our found 45 mile route in afan (w2 and skyline full) and didn't really let anyone past the whole day (rode with 5 liters of fluid on our backs)
Our mindset is if we let someone past we have to chase them. If we are knackered halfway up a climb we can stop and we can't push.
Got a blue pig in October each. 150mm. 20mm axle. 680mm. 60mm. 2.5 2.4. Flats.
Hadn't really ridden properly till this time of year so fitness has been reduced.
Now we have been chasing people on twice the bike and have had them stop and let us past. Have we improved?
I flow down. I am not tense. I have heels down. I refuse to use brakes. Ill purposely chase someone down at the end of the day even if they have fresh legs and I've seen them to be a fast fit rider. Someone who even looked like they had sponsored kit. And stay with them throughout tackeroo to the rollers. If you're on here I wouldn't have expected to stay with you purely down to fact I haven't had the bike long and I was feeling tired!
But I'm do impressed at my bike and how my riding has got on!
The pain in my legs now is purely down to how hard the bike makes me ride and how much thrill I'm getting from it.
Not sure its trust but I know I've been millimetres accurate with my line and if I've messed a line a grab of the brakes and a pedal I'm back on it. I'm awaiting the next proper ride. I really can't wait!
You're getting old. Welcome aboard.
i'm better than you post you might be faster but you sound like a willy jockey
With my mate we did our found 45 mile route in afan (w2 and skyline full) and didn't really let anyone past the whole day (rode with 5 liters of fluid on our backs)
🙄
Well I rather enjoyed your comment Andy! 😀
This has to be a wind up.
It would have been quicker just to write..."I like my new bike and I am a tube".
AWESOME!
Really? 😐
OP is a Troll, surely?
I think I'll wait a while before I get a mountainbike.
I think it is the bike, Here is why. Before I had an ultra-lightweight carbon race bike, it weigh maybe 19lb and I can ride the Double Black routes and Penycynchmore in 67 minutes, not stopping, Me and my mate carry energy bars and everything. Our rule is if we stop we start again, wickid! But I am always nervous on big gaps and doubles.
Then I broke both my legs in a big crash chasing down some bloke in a vest with rainbow stripes. I spent the winter in plaster, not much riding though me and my mate raced some other guys in wheelchairs up and down the hospital corridors, I carried five liters of fluid on my knee.
Then this spring I built up a Ragley Blue Pig with wickid Rockshox fork and me and my mate - he is better too, both his arms is heeled - go to Llantywottyfechan. Despite my fitness reduced from six month in plaster, I am faster than everyone. On the downhill I am a god and I climb like the wind. Our rule is if we see someone in front we ride past then we thumb our noses as we pass and ride away, we have passed everyone. I pass this guy the other day who look familiar and it turn out he is Lance Armstrong.
My question is, what bike does he ride? If he had a Blue Pig he might be quicker LOL.
me and my mate raced some other guys in wheelchairs up and down the hospital corridors, I carried five liters of fluid on my knee.
I nearly sprayed yoghurt on my monitor. (That's not a euphemism)
Genius!!!!!
All the bike, you've ridden a short travel bike for so long and you have got use to riding it like that. Now you've jumped on a bike with more travel,better angles and stuff for what your riding. Your using the skill from the shorter travel bike and transferring it to the longer travel bike making you faster.
This as to be a wind up. Surely no-one could be so self absorbed.
He'd marry himself if he could.
I love this forum. That's brightened my whole morning 😀
Stug45,
are you a crackpot?
😆
I hope I go to Afan on a different day
Nowt worse than having a nice ride only to have someone else start racing you or riding right up your tailpipe 😉
mornin' all !
shove over, a proper rider's here at last
Hey OP - I like the cut of your jib; wanna [s]race[/s] war ?
how do you think you'll do at the world cups this year?
I flow down. I am not tense. I have heels down. I refuse to use brakes
I want this on a T-shirt NOW!!!!
I'd say its definitely the rider rather than the bike. That is because he is a MASSIVE bellend.
BWD, I do enjoy your occasional flashes of genius.
Thanks for brightening my morning. 😉
OP is surf-mat and I claim my five pounds.
I had what you might call an epiphany a year or so ago. Money was tight and I sold all my gear, everything. But I missed cycling too much. I bought a 'halfords special'. The lack of pressure from looking the part has made me a better rider. I shread the trails now, without a care in the world, I go Fast! When I'm climbing past other riders I know my bike is heavier than theirs... this inspires me to dig deeper and carry on, I can tell it makes them feel pathetic. When I catch people on descents, I know my suspension doesn't really work, I know it's all down to what I'm doing, I know they feel inadequate...
I know I'm Awesome!!!
BWD = genius. 🙂
I was just trolling past and realised my Blue Pig is most excellent too, I only have a standard QR and no experience of riding Wangs.
i also take mine to the limit and rode atleast 6 miles back from wakefield on the road on it yesterday, didnt stop either thanks to the granny ring. Infact the only reason I cant go further is that I get so giddy when i sit on it my doctors limits exposure. Badmuthaofapigdaddyraaar.
*(disclaimer: i do actually like my pig, live near wakefield and can admit that even with a 60mm stem it is slower than i would like)*
You da man!!!
Awsome !
Dial it down OP, you're awesomeness is burning my eyes with it's awesome glow!
Got a blue pig in October each.
oh, suits you
No high fives and awesomeness allowed here, we're mostly British. Positive mental attitudes are awfully colonial...
Someone who even looked like they had sponsored kit.
How does someone even manage to look like this? If you're faster than sponsored riders on 'twice the bike' (how does that even work???) why aren't you a pro?
My god, could you be any more up your own ar$e???
Take it you haven't replied to your super awesome post as you and your mate have realised that you're both far too awesome for the rest of this world and climbed into each other's ar$es so none of the unworthy rest of the world can gaze on your god like image?
A bow in your rad glory oh jheylord of the maxshredskilz
That was me in the sponsored kit. I was two-thirds of the way through a 27-lap extreme training ride. I had swallowed five litres of water and filled my pack with sand. I also stuffed the tubes of my frame with lead shot and rode with my brakes fully on, just to make things interesting.
One question: do you always ride with your tongue lolling out of your mouth, wailing like a banshee and making what I can only describe as animal sex noises while you thrust your hips towards your bars? It kinda turned me on a bit.
That was me in the sponsored kit. I was two-thirds of the way through a 27-lap extreme training ride. I had swallowed five litres of water and filled my pack with sand. I also stuffed the tubes of my frame with lead shot and rode with my brakes fully on, just to make things interesting.
Poor effort. Swallowing the sand and carrying the water would be a better effort but basically if you've not upgraded to square wheels you shouldn't even be breaking a sweat no matter how many laps you've done.
Occasionally, this forum is worth the effort. This is one of those times 🙂
it certainly has some moments of pure quality, you really couldnt make it up....
...could you?
I reckon it's the rider, a truly awesome rider can ride any trail on any bike at speed. A not so awesome riding will buy the 'wrong' sized frame and blame his bad back on that.
Way to go 🙂
Good job I have a sense of humour!
Anyway at least I got out yesterday instead of scouring the internet to find people to insult.
I am probably better than some on a bike then. Just having a decent one has increased confidence. And fitness is back due to having been a national open water swimmer and enjoy being competitive.
Therefore I am better than you because I am above your immaturity.
Good day.
I do expect more replies from you lot due to you all having nothing better to do.
Troll or be trolled. Singletrack.™
I flow down. I am not tense. I have heels down. I refuse to use brakesI want this on a T-shirt NOW!!!!
+1
This thread is so funny I literally cried.
Whoever the OP is he should be given a column in the mag.
I am better than you because I am above your immaturity.
Allow me to be the first to say, that despite your general awesomeness and superiority to all and sundry, its very clear that your [i]bik is saracin[/i]
🙄 😈
Who is The Stug??
"having been a national open water swimmer"
A CLUE A CLUE!
Silly boy. 🙄
*bookmarks thread*
[i]Occasionally, this forum is worth the effort. This is one of those times [/i]
exactly what I was just thinking 🙂
Kev
At least your day has been brightened up! 🙂
If I was a woman about to ovulate I would be chasing down the op for he oozes virility.
but you'd never catch him, no-one can !!!
I've seen guys who are fast and go past and they're perfectly nice about it and I've seen guys who are asshats that appear to think they own the trail. All depends how you do it.
Thankfully I'm awwwwwesome to the max so never bothers me.
Actually went riding on Saturday and felt a little bit faster
than usual...........Jedi training methinks.
I have never seen the English language used like this before, its utter genius!
Just remember that Bill Shakespeare was ahead of his time too!
I have a Giant Reign x1 2009 it weights just over 40lb with my 2 ply minions big heavy springs as I'm 17 stone use it for Fort Bill and xc when I climb guys go by me but I don't care as I'm doing what I love riding my bike it's not a race it's a day away from all the shit that happens every other day.
Stug45. You are Surf Matt and I claim a thoroughly awesome £5.
OP is surf-mat and I claim my five pounds.
Coyote, it's already been claimed
I'm even radder! NO one passes me on my raighley grifter with 20 litres
of stella on my back! And im well fitter as i'm a synchronised swimmer on friday nights!!! NOW GROW UP YOU BUNCH OF P@SS TA@KERS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
From Wikipedia
Narcissism is the personality trait of egotism, vanity, conceit, or simple selfishness. Applied to a social group, it is sometimes used to denote elitism or an indifference to the plight of others.
The name "narcissism" was coined by Freud after Narcissus who in Greek myth was a pathologically self-absorbed young man who fell in love with his own reflection in a pool.
Some experts believe a disproportionate number of pathological narcissists are at work in the most influential reaches of society such as medicine, finance, politics and more recently mountain biking.[5]
I have a Giant Reign x1 2009 it weights just over 40lb with my 2 ply minions big heavy springs as I'm 17 stone use it for Fort Bill and xc when I climb guys go by me but I don't care as I'm doing what I love riding my bike it's not a race it's a day away from all the #### that happens every other day.
I must be fitter than all of you, as i just read that "sentence" without breathing!
Gutted that I will never be as boom frikking gnarly as OP. I'm selling all my bikes. Now.
no no no you are all wrong
stug is team McCoy rider Jason McCoy.(do a search if you dont remember him! classic thread of all time)
The orange boiler suited full faced helmet xc racer....I claim my £5
Noooooooo, carl, you mean Richie McCoy . . . not to be confused with the late great Jason McRoy. Wash your mouth out with soap please 🙁
didn't a whole race/event pack up leave before he finished?
could be ritchie I'm fairly 3 sheets to the wind..soz
tazzy yes, very delusional and very funny!!
do i still get my £5..?
Stug45 I thank you for making an already great day awesome/hilarious! 😆
I'm getting my penis measured tomorrow. Ill be back on next year when they've finished. Expect bupa to have no staff as they'll all be assisting in holding the member in their arms.
Bumping the awesomeness for making my Monday morning!
I'm 17 stone, rode all throughout the winter on a distinctly average bike, smoking copius amounts of weed and never passing by a pub without stopping in for 1 or 2 pints of the black stuff. Oh and on occassion I also get passed by people walking uphill, my mindset is that if some passes me they are trying too hard and should take a smoke of a joint, with this approach i find even the easiest downhill becomes extremely interesting, how awesome am I? 😀
Sometimes I think I ought to start going to trail centres just for the opportunity to meet people like Stug45.
W2 + Skyline for 45 miles?
Did Mr Awesome take a short cut?
Up whites climb. Over and down the wall. Down the first descent of whites up the fireroad past the end of the black. All of skyline including descent. Handy Andy being closed at the time.
GPS with a Nokia. Quoted 45 according to it. Trace looked right from the map view.
Btw I've decided you're all ****ers.
So much awesomeness and you drive a Honda Jazz?
Or is that your mums?
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Jazz has space for 3 bikes and riders. Most reliable car. Economical. Quality. Doesn't attract attention. From obvious wasters like you.
That blog 😯 Please tell me it's a joke and not someone being serious.
BWD post of the year. Awesome.
sure we're all looking forward to you skooshing the olympics next year, complete with bob trailer and keg of lager just to give the other competitors a chance! 😀Btw I've decided you're all ****.
i wish i could take myself that seriously 😀
Kuco - MemberThat blog Please tell me it's a joke and not someone being serious.
Who, Team McCoy?