are you a 'real' biker??

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  • crud_munch
    crud_munch Posts: 158
    1. freeride.dirt jump, XC, road (if that counts riding to friends house on the identiti)
    2. identiti dr jekyll and trek 4900 alpha
    3. i ride whenever i have free time so during the hols most days
    4. ive had some big crashes but havnt hurt myself other than scratches and bruises in any of them. i hurt my shins and my knees alot
    5. i bought both my bikes ready built but am frequently changing parts and fixing parts. i even fitted a new headset using a hammer, a screwdriver and a bit of wood. from all the upgrade parts from my friends old bike i have made an entire bike from random parts found strewn across his garage. including bottom bracket headset forks etc
    6. worked in a bike shop on work experience and the manager said they could take me on part time but go to boarding school so am never there so couldnt accept.
  • wwjjtt
    wwjjtt Posts: 204
    i'm totally with you on that, maybe being a real biker is not moaning that what you got aint good enough and making the most of what you have and just enjoying it.

    and some people are just stoopid. they come in and think they are right and you know they aren't but you just can't tell them. i'm usually like yeaa whatever and let them believe it. it is good when you correct a know-it-all with a hard fact and they can't argue.
    www.wdmba.co.uk
  • passout
    passout Posts: 4,425
    Nice to have some support comrades!
    'Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible' Marcel Proust.
  • wwjjtt
    wwjjtt Posts: 204
    passout wrote:
    Surely splitting MTB'ing into different categories is largely about marketing for the press and manufacturers and not soley about the natural development of the sport?

    Look at where it started, Gary Fisher and co rode bikes fast off road - that's it. The rest is at least 50% hype.

    We are cyclists first and consumers second - don't get it the wrong way around!


    spliting it in to catogories is forming different sports, down hill, freeride(shore and slopestyle), trail(all mountain), and cross counrty are all mountain biking, and all very different. they are different styles and require a different rig, unless you want a real hard job of it. so mountain biking isn't reallt the sport anymore, it's more of a sort of genre, like winter, or water sports. after all, winter sports are done in winter, water sports have to use water, and mountain biking uses a mountain and a bike. the type of mountain biking is your choice.

    it's nothing to do with hype. they just make different bikes for people who want to do different things. the original mountain bikes were downhill bikes. nothing to do with riding up or style or anything else in the modern sport. the sport has evolved and no doubt it will continue to.

    i do agree that wea re cyclists first though!
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  • Dangerous Dave
    Dangerous Dave Posts: 8,349
    crud_munch wrote:
    1. freeride.dirt jump, XC, road (if that counts riding to friends house on the identiti)
    2. identiti dr jekyll and trek 4900 alpha
    3. i ride whenever i have free time so during the hols most days
    4. ive had some big crashes but havnt hurt myself other than scratches and bruises in any of them. i hurt my shins and my knees alot
    5. i bought both my bikes ready built but am frequently changing parts and fixing parts. i even fitted a new headset using a hammer, a screwdriver and a bit of wood. from all the upgrade parts from my friends old bike i have made an entire bike from random parts found strewn across his garage. including bottom bracket headset forks etc
    6. worked in a bike shop on work experience and the manager said they could take me on part time but go to boarding school so am never there so couldnt accept.
    Presmuably you removed the old headset with the screwdriver?
    Otherwise, that method is a quick way of ovalising your headtube!
    Shut up. And ride your bike.
    Originally posted by Jon
    As Dave and Alex raced past, someone in the other group of people said 'those two are good'
  • crud_munch
    crud_munch Posts: 158
    Dangerous Dave wrote:
    crud_munch wrote:
    1. freeride.dirt jump, XC, road (if that counts riding to friends house on the identiti)
    2. identiti dr jekyll and trek 4900 alpha
    3. i ride whenever i have free time so during the hols most days
    4. ive had some big crashes but havnt hurt myself other than scratches and bruises in any of them. i hurt my shins and my knees alot
    5. i bought both my bikes ready built but am frequently changing parts and fixing parts. i even fitted a new headset using a hammer, a screwdriver and a bit of wood. from all the upgrade parts from my friends old bike i have made an entire bike from random parts found strewn across his garage. including bottom bracket headset forks etc
    6. worked in a bike shop on work experience and the manager said they could take me on part time but go to boarding school so am never there so couldnt accept.
    Presmuably you removed the old headset with the screwdriver?
    Otherwise, that method is a quick way of ovalising your headtube!


    yes the heaset was removed with the screwdriver being careful to hit it out evenly so moving the screwdriver around and hitting differnt positions. the new one was then hammered in using a block of wood using the same method! went in very easy!
  • Dangerous Dave
    Dangerous Dave Posts: 8,349
    Just don't smack a CK headset with the block of wood...
    Shut up. And ride your bike.
    Originally posted by Jon
    As Dave and Alex raced past, someone in the other group of people said 'those two are good'
  • crud_munch
    crud_munch Posts: 158
    no i wouldnt do it if the headet was expensive this was a £16 tioga headset
  • deanvw
    deanvw Posts: 412
    #1you must ride more than 2 styles, ie dh, trails, dirt jump, freeride park, street, road etc.
    #2you must own 2 or more bikes
    #3you must ride at least twice a week
    #4you must have had a big crash
    #5you definatly must be able to change a tube/fix a puncture and change the brake pads on the bikes you own and you must be capable of doing a basic clean/service.
    #6you get a bonus point for working in a bike shop, or something bike related.

    1. Does BMX count? well. BMX (HARO), Road (Cannondale), XC(mantra)
    2. Road (Cannondale), XC(mantra)
    3. Every possible minute
    4. does a chainring-kiss count? when cassette hub snapped nd cracked my goolies into my square stem.
    5. i know how to but havnt had to do it yet. nd i no how to service and clean a bike
    6. does halfords work experience count?
    http://mtbdean.pinkbike.com/

    Kona Scrap
  • Jon
    Jon Posts: 133
    This thread sucks.

    Firstly because the criteria for being a 'real' biker are stupid.
    I ride my bike every day, i own 2 bikes, i ride every discepline there is, i crash often, and i work in a bike shop. But there's people that do that and have no interest or motivation at all to ride. And there's kids at school who own Saracen's and spend every summer night riding till they can't anymore. There's guys that would never set foot in a shop that work 3 jobs over winter so they can take their beat-up bike out to Whistler for a whole season in summer.
    It's attitude, not what you own or ride.


    Secondly because the 'real' bikers are out on the trails shredding, not sat on the internet making up surveys. :wink:
  • passout
    passout Posts: 4,425
    I agree Jon.

    It's how dedicated the individual is and not how well they fit into 'a gang' and it's certainly not about the bike.
    'Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible' Marcel Proust.
  • Dangerous Dave
    Dangerous Dave Posts: 8,349
    Jon wrote:
    This thread sucks.

    Firstly because the criteria for being a 'real' biker are stupid.
    I ride my bike every day, i own 2 bikes, i ride every discepline there is, i crash often, and i work in a bike shop. But there's people that do that and have no interest or motivation at all to ride. And there's kids at school who own Saracen's and spend every summer night riding till they can't anymore. There's guys that would never set foot in a shop that work 3 jobs over winter so they can take their beat-up bike out to Whistler for a whole season in summer.
    It's attitude, not what you own or ride.


    Secondly because the 'real' bikers are out on the trails shredding, not sat on the internet making up surveys. :wink:
    Can't shred while we're doing those 3 jobs to save up for the uber trip to Whistler... so we resort to here!
    Shut up. And ride your bike.
    Originally posted by Jon
    As Dave and Alex raced past, someone in the other group of people said 'those two are good'
  • SiLvEr_SnAkE
    SiLvEr_SnAkE Posts: 180
    It wouldn't suck if people would let it just die...
    I'M RATHER PATRIOTIC
  • passout
    passout Posts: 4,425
    Oh yes it would.......!
    'Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible' Marcel Proust.
  • digdug
    digdug Posts: 90
    Jon wrote:
    This thread sucks.

    Firstly because the criteria for being a 'real' biker are stupid.
    I ride my bike every day, i own 2 bikes, i ride every discepline there is, i crash often, and i work in a bike shop. But there's people that do that and have no interest or motivation at all to ride. And there's kids at school who own Saracen's and spend every summer night riding till they can't anymore. There's guys that would never set foot in a shop that work 3 jobs over winter so they can take their beat-up bike out to Whistler for a whole season in summer.
    It's attitude, not what you own or ride.


    Secondly because the 'real' bikers are out on the trails shredding, not sat on the internet making up surveys. :wink:



    Word.
    F*ck sake man, you'll be taking over the world next. Never realised you were Scottish either.
  • wwjjtt
    wwjjtt Posts: 204
    well if it sucks don't read it! and if people actually read the whole forum then it might make a bit more sence. it is attitude! and i don't dispute that, but if you have read all the post you'd understand that! i think it's time this thread was closed?!!? before i hurt anyone else's feeling? sensative lot mountain bikers?
    www.wdmba.co.uk
  • Dangerous Dave
    Dangerous Dave Posts: 8,349
    If it sucks, don't post it :lol::wink:
    Shut up. And ride your bike.
    Originally posted by Jon
    As Dave and Alex raced past, someone in the other group of people said 'those two are good'
  • banana_man
    banana_man Posts: 49
    I could've sat on the toilet and passed out a more intelligent thread than this one... morons.
  • Dangerous Dave
    Dangerous Dave Posts: 8,349
    Care to elaborate why we are all morons? :twisted: :evil: 8)
    Shut up. And ride your bike.
    Originally posted by Jon
    As Dave and Alex raced past, someone in the other group of people said 'those two are good'
  • abul
    abul Posts: 347
    #1you must ride more than 2 styles, ie dh, trails, dirt jump, freeride park, street, road etc.
    #2you must own 2 or more bikes
    #3you must ride at least twice a week
    #4you must have had a big crash
    #5you definatly must be able to change a tube/fix a puncture and change the brake pads on the bikes you own and you must be capable of doing a basic clean/service.
    #6you get a bonus point for working in a bike shop, or something bike related.


    #1 aye
    #2 yeah i do but a shit rule anyway
    #3nope due to injury though
    #4broke collarbone twice and im off the bike due to another crash
    #5 who dosnt?
    #6 nope
    i used to have a sig [;)]
  • wwjjtt
    wwjjtt Posts: 204
    ok ok guys, come on this is gettin far to serious now! chill out now ok! maybe a moderator can delete this thread cause it's upsetting far to many people!
    www.wdmba.co.uk
  • passout
    passout Posts: 4,425
    wwjjitt - I think 'you' need to chill! Don't let the guilt get to you and put it down to experience. If it really worries you, why are you still reading this thread? Go and ride your bike instead, you'll feel much better. Besides, nobody is 'really' upset, see it as healthy disagreement.
    'Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible' Marcel Proust.
  • Jimbob_no5
    Jimbob_no5 Posts: 1,568
    Freeride, Dj, XC
    Kona Cowan and Coiler
    Ride most nights after school
    I hit a tree after a big drop at speed
    I can replace most of the bike and put back together
    I work at Airevalley Cycles with chris akrigg
    Pinkbike

    I believe in only 2 things in life.
    1) Drink is not my friend
    2) D-Locking cnuts ;)
  • lukesaddy
    lukesaddy Posts: 64
    1- road, DH, street, trials, trails, xc
    2- specialized hardrock sport HYD disk, Mongoose Menace Pro
    3- 7-10 times a week
    4- i have had many
    5- i have just fixed a puncture on my brothers BMX, i changed my BMX brake pads last night and i did a service on my spcialized last week
    6- my dream job, i will defo look for a job in a bike shop when i am 16
    Please e-mail me if you know any good trails and jumps around the,
    middlesbrough,
    yarm,
    stockton,
    ingleby barwick
    great ayton,
    or the redcar area.
  • Random Vince
    Random Vince Posts: 11,374
    1. yes.
    2. On One inbred (ss), carlton cours-de-pris (60's roadie)
    3. i ride as often as i can, hard in a city centre other than commuting
    4. no big offs
    5. Inbred built by me, carlton restored and put together by me
    6. dont work in a bike shop

    thus, apparently i'm not a real biker
    i was mountain biking before you knew what one was.

    back in my day we didnt have index shifters or full sus
    DH was done on hardtails by real men
    freeride was annoying ramblers
    slopestyle was still gay (as it is now)
    My signature was stolen by a moose

    that will be all

    trying to get GT James banned since tuesday
  • Darrenov
    Darrenov Posts: 40
    Yuppies always think they can buy and talk their way into the latest trends. Its just more people i can burn up on my 8 year old £110.99 mean machine. The more people on bikes the better. We are all real bikers my son.
  • shacabahalla
    shacabahalla Posts: 10
    1. downhill, freeride
    2.only need one bike/ can't afford 2
    3. everyday
    4.broken bones
    5.can do everythin apart from headset fitting and jobs that require expert tools
    6.n/a
    http://www.pinkbike.com/photo/1469682/ ma ride
  • hastings
    hastings Posts: 206
    1.XC, 4X, dirt
    2. Specialized Hardrock sport disc, DMR Rhythm
    3. as much as i can which is normally about 3-5 times a week
    4. wherever, chicksands sometimes, the XC is wherever i fancy at the time
    5. i can fix pretty much anything
    6. i am not old enough to work in a shop being only 15 (which sucks)
  • russ0228
    russ0228 Posts: 228
    geez there are far to many serious people on here. if i don't like the thread i don't reply. it's that simple. i'm glad to see still we have some light hearted people on here. anyway here's mine.
    1. i ride any which way my bike takes me. be it street/park/uphill/downhill, road however just bores me. (oops i shouldn't of said that it might upset someone).
    2. meta 5 custom,stp custom,revolution courier,a marin and a spesh frame
    3. ride everyday to work and ride on most days i get off. which is twice a week
    4. plenty of crashes, everyone does don't they?
    5. i should hope i could fix one or i would be in real trouble.
    6. full marks for me sunny. i work at a bike shop have done for 5 or 6yrs

    p.s do i get an extra bonus for leaving my well paid job for a shit paid one bacause i loved the job and enjoyed the people and the banter plus being able to travel to trade shows and being part of something i truelly love.
    internet (in ter net), secret sanctuary of idiots and nutters.
  • habitrail
    habitrail Posts: 109
    hmmm.... i think i will be a moron and reply, am i a moron for looking at this thread, or is it the people that say we are morons the actual morons and what is a moron?

    anyway...

    1. I ride street, dirt (when i can), bmx, park, freeride, xc, downhill.

    So do i get a point?

    2. I own 3 bikes, could own 4 if i could be assed buying bits n building it up. I have a all mountian hardtial, a 24" street bike, a bmx, and a collection of random parts that i should relaly sort out one day.

    So do i get a point?

    3. I ride when i can, ride street at least 3 times a week, try n get off road at least once a week cause i have to save a day off to spend time with the mrs.. but wow sometimes i even ride off road on both my days off.

    So do i get a point, and a bonus for having a life outside of bikes?

    4. I have had a few amazing crashes.... enough said.

    So another point schweeeeet

    5. I think if you can't do the listed bike maintence to earn this point you should never own a bike, come on it is basic stuff, what did ya dad teach ya when you were a kid or your mum to be p.c. it is quite funny that people can't fix a punture.

    So that must be a point and a bonus for being ace.

    6.I do indeed work in a bike shop. I don't work with any "pro" riders but man I work with this dude called Russ oooooooohhhh!! Oh and some top blokes that ride for banter and fun, wow! Thats right folks they ride for fun....

    So.... i have won, yass min! I am a winner, go me!!!

    What do i win?, i reckon i should get a cool hat that says "I am a MORON, in case of emergency slap heeeeed!" schweeet!

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