You never forget how to ride a bike?
SEMERKHET
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New to the forum, been silently snooping around for a while.
Just got back in to MBing after a 10 or so years (getting married and having kids/buying being married and having kids stuff) kind of got in the way. The scene has come a long way since i would blast about trying not to knock dogs and there walkers over on my "cough" Raleigh Activator II in the 90's, go on snigger i know you want to.
The closest me and my mates got to Trails in the 90's was going down the local woods and pushing our bikes to the top of the steepest hill we could find and throwing ourselves down it x 10 and trying not to fall off in the process.
They say you never forget how to ride a bike - i was into BMX big style in the 80's (remember BMX Beat anyone, showing my age now) went from building a jump made from bricks and a plank of wood to racing BMX for a few years and all the associated tricks that came with it. Got into Mountain Biking in the 90's, not in a huge way (i had an Activator remember). Having just got back in to the scene i didn't realise how big it actually is and how far it has come on. Call me blind but when i saw people out on their bikes i just thought they were out for a quick ride.
When i saw cars on the roads with bikes on the rack i though people were taking their bikes on holiday with them, not knowing anything about trails etc. I'm off to Hamsterley in a few days with some work mates and Kielder later in the year when the Midges have gone.
I'm enjoying it just as much as i enjoyed BMX in the 80's, the hills that i would fly up as a kid are a bit harder and take a bit longer than they did then, the jumps that i would show off on might look a bit bigger than they did then. i haven't forgotten how to ride a bike, i just forgot how much fun riding a bike was.
Just got back in to MBing after a 10 or so years (getting married and having kids/buying being married and having kids stuff) kind of got in the way. The scene has come a long way since i would blast about trying not to knock dogs and there walkers over on my "cough" Raleigh Activator II in the 90's, go on snigger i know you want to.
The closest me and my mates got to Trails in the 90's was going down the local woods and pushing our bikes to the top of the steepest hill we could find and throwing ourselves down it x 10 and trying not to fall off in the process.
They say you never forget how to ride a bike - i was into BMX big style in the 80's (remember BMX Beat anyone, showing my age now) went from building a jump made from bricks and a plank of wood to racing BMX for a few years and all the associated tricks that came with it. Got into Mountain Biking in the 90's, not in a huge way (i had an Activator remember). Having just got back in to the scene i didn't realise how big it actually is and how far it has come on. Call me blind but when i saw people out on their bikes i just thought they were out for a quick ride.
When i saw cars on the roads with bikes on the rack i though people were taking their bikes on holiday with them, not knowing anything about trails etc. I'm off to Hamsterley in a few days with some work mates and Kielder later in the year when the Midges have gone.
I'm enjoying it just as much as i enjoyed BMX in the 80's, the hills that i would fly up as a kid are a bit harder and take a bit longer than they did then, the jumps that i would show off on might look a bit bigger than they did then. i haven't forgotten how to ride a bike, i just forgot how much fun riding a bike was.
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Hi, glad you refound your love of bikes, I did exactly the same as you.. in fact, when I started reading your post I had to double check it was not something I had posted!!
I found it the same, the core skills are there, but the strength and staminer are long gone.. but after about 6 months back on the bike, I am clearing some pretty decent jumps, and can bunnyhop sideways up a 1ft kerb (which is the first thing I tried when I got my new MTB and fell off, I blame the suspension).
What bike did you get?
And what BMX did you have in the eighties?0 -
IIRC BMX Beat ran the same year BMX Bandits was released..what a bag o shite that was hahah..
Anyways lots of olides here, I just got back on the bike after a few years in April, things have changed...for the better.
Trail centers ftw!0 -
Im pretty new to MTB. True you never forget how to ride a bike but ive found i forget to take my balls with me these days.
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BMX Beat! - remember it well!
I've just moved to the Alps and been back on the bike for the last 2 months after 10 years off it too - you're right it doesn't really leave you, think I'm already nearly back to the kind of level I was back then.
Luckily I've calmed down a fair bit since my central London courier days and the terrain is a lot more testing - even without all the cars & pedestrians of London
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Mojo_666 wrote:IIRC BMX Beat ran the same year BMX Bandits was released..what a bag o shite that was hahah..
Anyways lots of olides here, I just got back on the bike after a few years in April, things have changed...for the better.
Trail centers ftw!
Depends on the center,
Locals trails FTW!! lol
But back on thread, Welcome back mate enjoy your riding and remember to slander roadies when ever possible0 -
Mojo_666 wrote:IIRC BMX Beat ran the same year BMX Bandits was released..what a bag o shite that was hahah.. Couldn't agree with you more but it's good to see that there's many of you who remember back then! Take a look at youtube for some old BMX Beat clips! I have never been lost but I do admit to being confused for several weeks!
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Same here, stopped riding when i got my first car at 17 years old, now 33 years old and just getting back into it, after getting catastrophically fat (21 stone last xmas)
I found that while i never forgot how to ride a bike, i totally forgot how to do all the skillfull stuff, i could not wheely/ride no hands etc etc
Took a while to relearn that stuff, what i did find though is that my legs which were used to carrying around a 21 stone bloke, can work pretty well when needed to power a now 18 stone bloke uphill on a MTB.
We were at Hamsterly a few weeks back, none of my skinny mates could climb up the black/red route climbs, i did the lot, and did one of them on the back wheel doing a wheely just to piss them off 8) 1999 Specialized FSR Elite MAX Backbone.
1998 Specialized FSR Ground Control - stripped for parts.
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Peter_leo wrote:Every individual have two sort of memory - short term memory and long term memory. once a person learns how to ride a bike,his brain stores the information in long-term memory. so he never forget how to ride a bike.
http://www.trek4300.com/
Whats going on with the website there? Its just generic blurb with a couple of ads.... :S0
