What is 'Freeride'

zeroseven

as opposed to XC?

passout

More teenage & 'rad' but less serious. Bigger bumps, steeper descents.

Stu 74

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

Sounds like downhill....???

Stu 74

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

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?

Stu

zeroseven

Right... like freestyle MX without the style.

Cheers

Tow Path Ted.

xgeek

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

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?

Stu

:shock:

Absolute nutters!!

canada16

would not catch me doing stuff like that.

I like my nuts thanks.

xtreem

You take a 7" fullsus bike and what ever you do with that bike it's gonna be Freeride.

You can't say that someone with some XC 4" travel bike is doing freeride.

medicineman

:shock:

hucking_fell

Freeriding is a trail centre where you don't have to pay for the carpark

jojo90

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

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?

Stu

Looks like my regular XC ride?

feersumendjinn

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

Freeriding is just mucking about.

_Ferret_

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....)

chriskempton

Ferret, how much was your Zesty?

AlpineRider

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

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.

jayson

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.

uniqueride

What is freride? sounds familiar

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.

SDK2007

Freeride = search for Red Bull Rampage

_Ferret_

I think it's in Utah, America.
Hope that didn'T spoil your search.

Vivid

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

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

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.

tom_majski

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

Zeroseven, I just wiped my screen and relized it was your damn avatar :evil:
lol
Stu

passout

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).