XC same as Trails?

Is cross country (XC) the same thing as riding trails ?
Was on YouTube watching videos of people doing XC races.
Do they use the same bikes as people doing trails or with lighter thinner types?
Was on YouTube watching videos of people doing XC races.
Do they use the same bikes as people doing trails or with lighter thinner types?
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A trail bike may have more suspension travel, and I'd have no reservations about taking it down a rock strewn descent in the peak district (not that I'd avoid taking my xc bike down the same descent, I'd just be a bit more wary about it)
Hope that helps.
Some people think of XC as riding around on fireroads. IMO unless it's dirt jumping, uplift assisted DH, or has lots of drops of 3ft+ then it's XC! Trail centres are XC.
Trail bikes, as above, do tend to be a bit tougher than an XC race bike, more suspension, bigger tyres and rotors to compensate for the heavier, less skilled riders that deem 140mm travel a minimum :-)
DH racing is a specialism
Trials and dirt jumping are specialised areas.
Everything else is just "mountain biking"
Trials as far as I know is the Danny McCaskill stuff, urban stunt riding on special bikes that are more akin to BMXs but slightly larger.
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Why only light bridleway riding? XC racing is far more technical than that, so why is XC riding not? If you're riding around the countryside, it's XC!
Someone once said to me "we're not doing an XC ride, we're doing singletrack" WTF?!
Anyway, it's all just labels, why the need to be pigeon holed!?
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Ergo XC is mountain biking .
Racing XC is just that racing cross country
Racing DH is racing DH
Trials is well just hypnotic in a strange way.
thats what xc means to me too
Mountain biking is mountain biking. There are subclasses thereof.
I come from a very old school of mountain biking where there was only one discipline and that was mountain biking where you rode your bike cross all the different terrains . DH is a subcategory of XC as it evolved FROM XC .
XC is mountain biking in it's purest form Garry Fisher , Keith Bontrangor , Tom Ritchly all say that and they invented the sport .When they started the repack they wanted bikes that would allow them to ride up and over the mountains in Marin . They didn't just want to go down they wanted to cross the landscape to ride free of the restraints of the road .
To me Trail riding is a renaming of what I started doing in the mid 90's as a 13 year old kid, that all the other mountain bikers were doing riding our bike across the country side enjoying the Whole experience free from the hassle of life. For that brief moment in time we were our own masters . Some enjoyed the down hill bits more so just did that , but they found that after the first experiences of riding XC . Now that is lost after all these years .
XC should be claimed back and put where it belongs as the patriarch of mountain biking , where the MTB was born. How any one of importance in MTB design came from . Where the home of the common MTBer is , weather he be riding just DH or full XC .Not looked down upon as a forgotten and irrelevant "race" . Let us not listen to the advertising trickery applied by the suited masses of the companies that look for "New" and"improved" yet just give us "rehashed" and " renamed" .
Infact we should look to the grand farther of MTBing CX for our inspiration in life. peace out and pas me some tie died clothing now thanks, ............should i grow and afro ?
Yeah, a normal ride involves going down a hill, but that does not really relate to the category of DH. How many people incorporate a DH track in their average ride?
DH is a part of mountain biking. XC is a part of mountain biking, trials is a part of mountain biking, dirst jumping and slopestyle is a part of mountain biking.
They are all MOUNTAIN BIKING
It's the same as Rugby and Football . Rugby is officially known as Rugby Football as it was a development from football in the 1800's . Even though they are separate sports they share the same heritage in their history .
then things developed as things do, too bikes with suspension forks and then rear suspensions thats when things take off and different types of riding then start downhill a good example, you could even argue that mountain biking came from the bmx world but thats for another day
but those marin county boys were really riding road bikes....so xc came from road riding...by your logic....DH is a part of XC is a part of road riding? really?
I have crossed the country on a road bike, including parts which were singletrack.....some of which were down a hill....so by extension, I have done DH on a road bike! How rad's that! or are you just being silly?
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nope your still wrong mountaiin bikes came from the road bike my mate still has one of the first marin and its dam near a copy of my early eighties road bike just bigger built
Arguably Sheldon brown was building the first MTB's in the US during the1960's too . He built a road bike with 625 wheels with balloon tyres .
Side note that repack was ridden after the first off road rides by the marine county guys.