Rides you don't enjoy?

diamondbacker

Just got back from a ride and for the first time I didn't really enjoy it. It began to pee down so I got wet, I underestimated how boggy Beamish woods would be after the heavy rain earlier in the week - parts of it were like a quagmire. Couldn't get much traction on the rear, kept sliding out and the front kept getting bogged down.

Also, I got slightly lost and ended up being attacked by thorns and nettles, forgot my glasses and got mud in my eye! Grrrr.

Sorry, just wanted to vent. Anyone else get days like this?

Bring back the sunshine I say!

Dazzza

Yup i hate an ride i struggle on which is usually quite often.

Had quite a nice one today though the chain did suck big time with one set of links above another set of links all jammed in.

The chain is not a happy bunny lol.

stumpyjon

Karma thing, they can't all be good (unfortunately), makes the good ones all the better though. Just get out again soon otherwise you'll end up with a bad vibe in your head.

Hercule Q

i lost the friction material off my brake pad mid ride today

delcol

this one lol. and after the crash i got wet through in a heavy storm on open moor land with no shelter.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwNxAa7rQCM

Dazzza

Get up you stupid twat.

Nice of your mate waiting for you.

Anonymous

Delcol, waht made you fall off? it seems you just steered off the trail? :?:

delcol

thats my brother, and to make it worse its my identical twin brother..

i think the exact quote was something like "speed up you stupid t**t

i had to steer off the trail cause my brother just slowed down for no reason at the beginging of the vid you will hear me say i'm going to be right on your back wheel so go,,,,

i was around half a foot off his wheel and he just slowed down for no reason so i had to brake and turn i lost my front wheel on the off camber bank...

deffler

yeehaamcgee wrote:

Delcol, waht made you fall off? it seems you just steered off the trail? :?:

I think he got shot by a sniper

Anonymous

Ah.

The ride I didn't enjoy, was my first time doing the dragon's back at Coed y Brenin with tubeless tyres.
My front tyre burped about 5 miles in, leaving me having to try and re-inflate it with a minipump. Miraculously, I managed, because the tyre had re-seated, and sealed quite well for the most part.

Then about halfway round, my front wheel threw a rock up which clattered my rear derailleur into my wheel and bent the mech hanger. Took me about 25 minutes of bashing it with a rock to sort it out, and straighten my drop out.

Then, on the Addam's family sections, I was railing the turns on the middle jumpy-ish sections as fast as I could go, loving it, and feeling like it was flowing well, when my tyre again burped on a corner, spitting me face and elbow first into lovely sharp welsh rocks at high speed.
So, I had to try and fit a tube into the front wheel whilst dripping a large river of blood down the trail!

That was a pretty crappy, although thoroughly exciting day at the trails!

EDIT:
I just realised my front wheel caused all three issues! Damn thing obviously didn;t like going tubeless!

lesz42

Coed y brenin.










300 meters in, and it showed me how skill-less i am

Raymondavalon

I did the Test Valley Challenge 50KM in June
No one else seemed to be wearing pads, so.. I didn't either. I was also too lazy to change tyres on my bike as it had rained buckets the night before, I thought that because I set off early I'd be fine with wider tyres.

While charging down a lovely grassy hill I came upon a mantrap as in an embankment I didn't see until the last second..
I hit it way too fast, got big air and when I landed I hit the back of the saddle with my 220LBS weight ripping the saddle off the seatpost, I then speared myself on the seatpost and ended up crashed big time.

I then refitted the saddle and it was moving backwards and forwards as I'd destroyed the seat clamps. Got to the 20 mile mark and there was a bike mech on hand, he managed to bang the clamps into place with a mallet. This sort of worked, although the saddle was moving around on the post, left/right to and fro.. annoying.

Got to the forest section and my 2.3 Maxxis tyres were just no good in the mud, they just mudded up to the point I couldn't even see the tread blocks and I had some major offs through the New Forest section of the event. I may as well have fitted slicks to the bike, I was covered in mud too and my knee was killing me. My front derailer was so full of mud it wouldn't work, so I had to stop and clean it a few times too.. In the end I was over riding the bike and had lost all my flow and rhythm,

When I got out of the forest I was greeted with killer hills and ended up pushing up some of them, then I ran out of fluids.. I'd finished my hydration bladder and had nothing else to drink. I was livid at this stage and was quite tempted to find a road and phone for a taxi, hahaha

Anyway I got to the finish line and it was so well worth it, I can't explain the sense of achievement I felt once I'd checked in at the finish.

I got a massive bruise on my solar plexus, legs and my left kneecap from that as well as aggravating some previous breaks in my ribcage

Anonymous

pitfichie old downhill course on a 120mm, 5" full sus bike..that isn't meant for steep tree/root sections... no fun at all...too steep and moist. slippy as fook..mate came off, bruised ribs... we push it down the rest of the hill...pants!

projectsome

anything with loads of uphills. I live in the lower part of the city so do alot of travelling up hill. last thing I need is more uphill when I get there.

joshtp

i have on and off days, sometimes i fly and love it, sometimes i dont, not much i can do about it. apart from some vampire weekend to motivate me!

cgarossi

I don't enjoy rides when the whole thing becomes an unspoken race. People speeding off and leaving others behind when all we wanted was a good ride with good company.

Anonymous

cgarossi wrote:

I don't enjoy rides when the whole thing becomes an unspoken race. People speeding off and leaving others behind when all we wanted was a good ride with good company.

+1

how do you race on single track anyway,, I often wonder that.

cgarossi

I'm not sure. But the whole silently smug 'I'm at the top first I must be the best' thing gets me annoyed.

Ride for ridings sake.

I was in Tal Y Bont this weekend and three of us went out on a good ride around the Usk reservoir. No racing, even though we were of different speeds we made sure to wait at a point to regroup, have a chat and a breather before moving on. It was great. And a beer at the pub at the end.

Anonymous

if the person who races is always 1st, he/she will have no friends to enjoy it with at the end.

projectsome

GmanUK101 wrote:

cgarossi wrote:

I don't enjoy rides when the whole thing becomes an unspoken race. People speeding off and leaving others behind when all we wanted was a good ride with good company.

+1

how do you race on single track anyway,, I often wonder that.

A gentle nudge.

j/k :roll:

generally stick within a reasonable distance then when you spot a big enough gap shout "on your right" (or left)

paul.skibum

Coed y Brenin - MBR route the only time I ever did it - had just got back to UK from Alps, away with some mates - match fit, bike in fine fettle but I couldnt find a rythmn - my in head ipod had broken and I just wasnt feeling the beat or hearign the soundtrack or whatever - ended up drifitng through whole ride just not getting it at all.

Last run into base I managed to remember a tune I always had in my head in Alps for flowing runs and started to get it, ended up buzzing my mates rear tyre and hassling him through the last two turns - got back to the car and wante dto go out again as I'd found my mojo. Too late though. Not been back since.

Anonymous

why would you go riding with your mates, with an i-pod? doesn't that mean you can't talk crap with them?
That's half the fun of group rides I thought.

You should definitely go back and check out MBR again, it's well worth it.

cat_with_no_tail

Didn't enjoy my ride yesterday. Had spent ages planning a sweet 45mile route as training for the IOM End2End in sept. Set off a 6:30am, 6 miles in and the chain slips and gets pinched between 2 chain rings. I grab the chain and give it a good tug. this frees the chain, which snaps back onto the middle ring, trapping the top of my middle finger between chain and chainring.

The chain managed to cut through my glove, and very nearly took the top of my finger off. Then had to ride the 6 miles home, leaving a little blood trail behind me all the way. When I got home, cleaned up and took myself down to A&E. They cleaned it up for me, irrigated it, and stitched it up.

As a little bonus, they gave me a tetnus booster, so now in addition to my finger throbbing, my arm aches too :roll:

So not only did I NOT get to go for my much anticipated ride, but I cut my finger, ruined a pair of gloves, spent the day in A&E and had to have a tetnus jab. Worst thing is, I dont even get the extra man points for the smash, bash, over-the-bars, down a cliff madness because I was stationary at the time.

Thermo1

diamondbacker wrote:

Just got back from a ride and for the first time I didn't really enjoy it. It began to pee down so I got wet, I underestimated how boggy Beamish woods would be after the heavy rain earlier in the week - parts of it were like a quagmire. Couldn't get much traction on the rear, kept sliding out and the front kept getting bogged down.

Also, I got slightly lost and ended up being attacked by thorns and nettles, forgot my glasses and got mud in my eye! Grrrr.

Sorry, just wanted to vent. Anyone else get days like this?

Bring back the sunshine I say!

I guarantee you'll remember that ride in years to come, though.

Jack_is_Back

Anything that ends with a long slog uphill.

Always park at the bottom of the hill! :idea:

RealMan

You only remember the bad rides.

dot1

ride i done today, first outing on my new bike, was really really looking forward to it. put some maxxis high roller 2.35 super tacky tyres on it, which were awesome when pointing downhill, railing corners here there and everywhere. however when there was a hill, flat section, even some slight downhill sections, the tyres sucked every ounce of speed i had and made pedalling crazy hard. got fed up in the end and walked back to the car park.

gunna put the original kenda nevegals on and go for a blast in the woods tomorrow and see what its like then.