What is 'Freeride'

zeroseven
zeroseven Posts: 347
edited October 2008 in MTB general
as opposed to XC?

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  • passout
    passout Posts: 4,425
    More teenage & 'rad' but less serious. Bigger bumps, steeper descents.
    'Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible' Marcel Proust.
  • Stu 74
    Stu 74 Posts: 463
    Freeriding = Gravity fuelled riding down (usually) severe terrain. Usually wearing body armour and a full face helmet and usually on a big heavy bike with lots of suspension travel!

    Stu
  • zeroseven
    zeroseven Posts: 347
    Sounds like downhill....???
  • Stu 74
    Stu 74 Posts: 463
    I would say that downhill is more about getting down the hill fast where as freeriding is about getting down the hill (or cliff) without falling off :D

    Check these out........

    http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=R5dWWLKMj ... re=related

    http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=ssoIo56uhfY

    http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=6BV4slil-HQ
    but less serious
    Really? :lol:

    Stu
  • zeroseven
    zeroseven Posts: 347
    Right... like freestyle MX without the style.

    Cheers

    Tow Path Ted.
  • xgeek
    xgeek Posts: 117
    Stu 74 wrote:
    I would say that downhill is more about getting down the hill fast where as freeriding is about getting down the hill (or cliff) without falling off :D

    Check these out........

    http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=R5dWWLKMj ... re=related

    http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=ssoIo56uhfY

    http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=6BV4slil-HQ
    but less serious
    Really? :lol:

    Stu
    :shock:

    Absolute nutters!!
  • canada16
    canada16 Posts: 2,360
    would not catch me doing stuff like that.

    I like my nuts thanks. :o
  • xtreem
    xtreem Posts: 2,965
    You take a 7" fullsus bike and what ever you do with that bike it's gonna be Freeride. :lol:

    You can't say that someone with some XC 4" travel bike is doing freeride. :lol:
  • :shock:
  • hucking_fell
    hucking_fell Posts: 1,056
    edited October 2008
    Freeriding is a trail centre where you don't have to pay for the carpark :wink:
    More freerange chicken than Freeride God
    Bighit , 5 , BFe
  • jojo90
    jojo90 Posts: 178
    Stu 74 wrote:
    I would say that downhill is more about getting down the hill fast where as freeriding is about getting down the hill (or cliff) without falling off :D

    Check these out........

    http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=R5dWWLKMj ... re=related

    http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=ssoIo56uhfY

    http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=6BV4slil-HQ
    but less serious
    Really? :lol:

    Stu

    Looks like my regular XC ride?
  • Isn't Freeriding just getting on your bike & riding off into the hills/mountains/woods, taking it as it comes & riding up down & off stuff as you find it & then going home smiling & satisfied?
    Or is that just mucking about?
  • Daz555
    Daz555 Posts: 3,976
    Freeriding is just mucking about.
    You only need two tools: WD40 and Duck Tape.
    If it doesn't move and should, use the WD40.
    If it shouldn't move and does, use the tape.
  • _Ferret_
    _Ferret_ Posts: 660
    freeriding is what most people do every weekend but on a really expensive bike. You need to buy one to be part of this exclusive club...

    (come on, buy into the advertising monster....)
    Not really active
  • chriskempton
    chriskempton Posts: 1,245
    Ferret, how much was your Zesty?
  • Freeriding came from the snowboarding and skiing world and realted to not having any set rules and regulations to follow. I thought that this followed through to the same sort of thing in mtb, so along the lines of most of the comments here.
    I once got attacked over on the singletrack forum though for labelling a ride as freeride and was told that it was just alpine xc.
    I did a ride recently (see http://alpinebreak.com/2008/photo/col-vieux/) that I would have classed as freeride. it is similar to the Megavalance in Alpe d'Huez but am no longer sure what to call it
    Cheers
    Phil
  • jojo90
    jojo90 Posts: 178
    Just a way of describing long travel bikes with slack geometry. Get a bionicon then you can join all the clubs however you *MUST* change your clothes each time you change the geometry tho, otherwise teh kool kids will point and laugh.

    :D
  • jayson
    jayson Posts: 4,606
    Surely in the purest form mtb'ing is all free riding, the act of riding a bike anywhere on any terrain up and down dale as opposed to being stuck to the roads.

    Of course its not exactly that simple anymore but i think u can see what im getting at.
  • What is freride? sounds familiar :wink:

    http://www.bikeradar.com/mtb/forums/vie ... highlight=
    http://www.bikeradar.com/mtb/forums/vie ... highlight=

    i have got my thoughts on there. I is quite hard to define freeride and i guess that it means something slightly diffrent to alot of people.
    Ride it hard on a hardtail
  • SDK2007
    SDK2007 Posts: 782
    Freeride = search for Red Bull Rampage :)
  • _Ferret_
    _Ferret_ Posts: 660
    I think it's in Utah, America.
    Hope that didn'T spoil your search.
    Not really active
  • Vivid
    Vivid Posts: 267
    jayson wrote:
    Surely in the purest form mtb'ing is all free riding, the act of riding a bike anywhere on any terrain up and down dale as opposed to being stuck to the roads.

    Of course its not exactly that simple anymore but i think u can see what im getting at.

    I agree, its riding where you not confined to a trail, you have the ability to ride where you want, choose your own lines and create your own path.
  • jayson
    jayson Posts: 4,606
    Vivid wrote:
    jayson wrote:
    Surely in the purest form mtb'ing is all free riding, the act of riding a bike anywhere on any terrain up and down dale as opposed to being stuck to the roads.

    Of course its not exactly that simple anymore but i think u can see what im getting at.

    I agree, its riding where you not confined to a trail, you have the ability to ride where you want, choose your own lines and create your own path.

    It seems MTB'ing has become a victim of the buzzword craze as its grown over the years.
  • ride_whenever
    ride_whenever Posts: 13,279
    I see freeride as the bastard lovechild of DH and dirtjumping. Hooning down hills and goind really big but not necessarily fast, but with flair.
  • Freeride is essentially gravity fuelled but is more about going big than DH is. Big jumps, big drops and big style without the racing mentality or constraints of DH riding. People like Vanderham and Shandro are freeriders IMO, not to be confused with Huckers like Josh Bender who just want to jump off the biggest stuff possible.
  • BigStu2
    BigStu2 Posts: 794
    Zeroseven, I just wiped my screen and relized it was your damn avatar :evil:
    lol
    Stu
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  • passout
    passout Posts: 4,425
    I'm not sure if I'm into XC, All Mountain or Freeride? I like going down hill too! It's all too much - I'm becoming a Roadie (Sportive not Race or TT).
    'Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible' Marcel Proust.