Competitive or not?

.blitz

Competitive: you are riding along at a reasonable pace when you spot another rider on the trail ahead. They are a fair way off and the terrain inbetween is not easy but the red mist descends and you have to hammer it until you catch them up, easing off only slightly as you sail past to make it look as though you ride like this all the time.

Uncompetitive: as above, but the other rider hears you approaching, cogs it up a gear and clears off. There's nothing you can do

Non-competitive: you ride at your own pace. You pass and you get passed. It's not a race 8)

Think I'm uncompetitive How about you?

lawman

if i see someone, ill go for it. if they come past me, which is rare :P ill not bother.

i like overtaking people, i adds to the buzz and no one likes to to be stuck behind someone slower. so i just put my foot down and gun after them. so yes im competitive

supersonic

I am off the bike, but on the bike, no.

paul.skibum

On the road I will often try and catch people ahead of me or try to keep up with people who pass me. I like the challenge.

Off road I try to go pretty quick and can get competative with my mates but generally I am just riding the speed I am happy with at the time.

jay12

if i go faster than someone then i'll obvieously overtake them but sometimes (because i'm 13) i like taking over people that are much older

Thewaylander

I'm too lazy.. non- comp

salsarider79

On road I like to stay in the front group, sometimes I like to try to ride across the gap between me and a rider I see in the distance. Part Competitive, part Non-Competitive.
Off road I like to stay within sight of everyone else....which doesn't always happen. Wish I could be competitive.

Usually I just like to ride.

blister pus

I like to chase cars

otherwise I go at my own pace which is varied interval training a lot of the time.

Chaz.Harding

I ALWAYS try and catch the person infront... 8)

I can't help it! On road, I'll overtake anyone (or try!) that's infront of me! Sometimes, I'll set my self little targets too, like - overtake that cycling granny by the time she passes the next lamp-post, sort of thing.

Off road I get bad too... If there's someone infront, I'll do my utmost to catch up. However, I'm polite, so don't force my way past. I LOVE toasting XC rigs uphills (my ride is a 36lbs Intense 6.6). Maybe it's stupid, and childish, but it's a laugh, and I have a good time too!

It's what it's all about, right?

8)

MacAndCheese

When it's on my work commute it's serious competition time! Any other MTB will be laid to waste!!....until I'm a sweaty mess, grasping for air and thanking the heavens that the light turned red so that I could take a breather.... Have also learn that trying to beat the roadies on there home turf is very silly!

Out on the hills I take a more relaxed approach with one exception: If someone sees me riding up a hill there is no way I am getting off that bike to push until:
a) I've finished the hill
b) they can no longer see me :oops:
c) I've suffered a serious cardiac arrest

VWsurfbum

salsarider79 wrote:

Usually I just like to ride.

Thats my philosphy (unless i'm in a race)

GHill

supersonic wrote:

I am off the bike, but on the bike, no.

Oddly, that describes me too.

xtreem

[b]MacAndCheese[/b] wrote:

Out on the hills I take a more relaxed approach with one exception: If someone sees me riding up a hill there is no way I am getting off that bike to push until:
a) I've finished the hill
b) they can no longer see me :oops:
c) I've suffered a serious cardiac arrest

+1.

delcol

it depends,
if it's the urban commute race then i have to give it my all even it means bonking i have to catch and pass that spec in the distance.. even set my self silly challenges to like passing that line of traffic stck behind that slow moving tractor pulling his trailler full of straw..

on my mtb sometimes i do sometimes i don't it really depends on my mood,. i like it when i get smoked on a climb then catch and pass on the decent especially if its a techy one....

addivllangirb

bigchazrocks wrote:

I ALWAYS try and catch the person infront... 8)

I can't help it! On road, I'll overtake anyone (or try!) that's infront of me! Sometimes, I'll set my self little targets too, like - overtake that cycling granny by the time she passes the next lamp-post, sort of thing.

Off road I get bad too... If there's someone infront, I'll do my utmost to catch up. However, I'm polite, so don't force my way past. I LOVE toasting XC rigs uphills (my ride is a 36lbs Intense 6.6). Maybe it's stupid, and childish, but it's a laugh, and I have a good time too!

It's what it's all about, right?

8)

Sounds very very familiar

Anonymous

im not at all competitive on my mtb, im so rubbish i avoid all other cyclists off road at all costs

on the road i cant see another rider without trying to ave a go. i normally catch whoever i see but to be fair to those people, they dont even know theyre in a fight until ive gone past. i cannot bear being over taken though, it upsets me for the rest of the day! i got done by a tandem t'other day and i was thredders until i caught thm going up a hill an put the hammer down for the next mile to make sure they couldnt catch me, again, to be fair they didnt even know we were racing but we were, definately.

el loco pollo

When it comes to taking care of my business I'm very competitive. Biking is a fun, relaxing hobby for me though, so I'm totally non-competitive. I couldn't give a shit if someone is faster than me, biking is the last place i feel the need to "prove" myself

dave_hill

Not at all competitive. I have nothing left to prove and like the man said - it's not a race.

The older I get, the better I was.

Hercule Q

i'll bet everyone of you i'm the least competative and i'll beat you at it!!!!


i do try and catch the person in front (hence i'm on crutches at the mo)

beski

They're a competitive lot over in the Commuting forum, they've got a Silly Commuters Racing thread...

http://www.bikeradar.com/forums/viewtop ... t=12575770

naefearjustbeer

I just go at my own pace. Where I ride mostly I dont see other riders. I have miles of old quarries around my house and can cycle 4 mile loops with only about 20 feet of on public road covered. I have been to golspie once and I caught up with and overtook a family making there way down and I also manged to stay ahead of the guys with the DH bikes who said they would catch me up on the way down. I dont know how much of a head start they gave so cannot say that I was fast LOL! I dont know if I am fast or slow or average I just do my own thing and enjoy it, to add competitiveness to it would take the fun out of it for me. I do it for grin factor.