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YeehaaMcgee wrote:Descending.
hahaha...I'm gonna go a do a day of descending tomorrow. I'll be on a DH bike and I'll be riding lift accessed DH trails..but personally I'll be descending all day!
I think you'll find I'll actually be riding Downhill, there'll be some north shore bits and some peddly bits but mainly there'll be a shit load of rocks, drops, gaps and jumps and I'll be going fast until I get to the bottom and then I'll get the lift back up again..."Why have that extra tooth if you're not using it?" - Brian Lopes
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Sounds like freeriding then.felix.london wrote:YeehaaMcgee wrote:Descending.
hahaha...I'm gonna go a do a day of descending tomorrow. I'll be on a DH bike and I'll be riding lift accessed DH trails..but personally I'll be descending all day!
I think you'll find I'll actually be riding Downhill, there'll be some north shore bits and some peddly bits but mainly there'll be a shoot load of rocks, drops, gaps and jumps and I'll be going fast until I get to the bottom and then I'll get the lift back up again...0 -
Only cos I choose to go through the bike park...it's nicer in there. Less rocks...but more trees :?"Why have that extra tooth if you're not using it?" - Brian Lopes
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Are you timing yourself, trying to beat your time, squeezing every last split second out of your run?felix.london wrote:Only cos I choose to go through the bike park...it's nicer in there. Less rocks...but more trees :?
No?
Then you're freeriding.
You ski as well, don't you? (if I recall correctly). Which means you've probably gone down some Olympic, or world cup runs. But you weren't "downhill skiing", were you, just... skiing?0 -
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97th choice wrote:Welcome to pedants corner, please pull up a chair.
One of the ones from the OP's picture?0 -
YeehaaMcgee wrote:
Are you timing yourself, trying to beat your time, squeezing every last split second out of your run?felix.london wrote:Only cos I choose to go through the bike park...it's nicer in there. Less rocks...but more trees :?
No?
Then you're freeriding.
You ski as well, don't you? (if I recall correctly). Which means you've probably gone down some Olympic, or world cup runs. But you weren't "downhill skiing", were you, just... skiing?
I think you are confusing Downhill Racing with Downhill Riding - surely Fort Bill is a track open to the public when it is not being used for racing - so if I go and ride as fast as I can down it on my bike I am freeriding but if I stick a number on my bars and get someone to hold a stop watch it becomes downhill?
We race in the bike park as they do in Whistler and many other bike parks in BC - does that mean at certain points a trail in the bike park becomes a downhill track but the rest of the time its a freeride track?Closet jockey wheel pimp whore.0 -
If it's racing, it's DH. otherwise, it's freeriding.paul.skibum wrote:YeehaaMcgee wrote:
Are you timing yourself, trying to beat your time, squeezing every last split second out of your run?felix.london wrote:Only cos I choose to go through the bike park...it's nicer in there. Less rocks...but more trees :?
No?
Then you're freeriding.
You ski as well, don't you? (if I recall correctly). Which means you've probably gone down some Olympic, or world cup runs. But you weren't "downhill skiing", were you, just... skiing?
I think you are confusing Downhill Racing with Downhill Riding - surely Fort Bill is a track open to the public when it is not being used for racing - so if I go and ride as fast as I can down it on my bike I am freeriding but if I stick a number on my bars and get someone to hold a stop watch it becomes downhill?
We race in the bike park as they do in Whistler and many other bike parks in BC - does that mean at certain points a trail in the bike park becomes a downhill track but the rest of the time its a freeride track?0 -
With all due respect to your obviously huge brain and encyclopaedic knowledge of useless information, wrinkly hairy dangly things. (It won't let me write bollocks).I don't do smileys.
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To be fair usually you're the one who by this point is shouting stuff like "it's not any of those names, it's just mountain biking".YeehaaMcgee wrote:
If it's racing, it's DH. otherwise, it's freeriding.paul.skibum wrote:YeehaaMcgee wrote:
Are you timing yourself, trying to beat your time, squeezing every last split second out of your run?felix.london wrote:Only cos I choose to go through the bike park...it's nicer in there. Less rocks...but more trees :?
No?
Then you're freeriding.
You ski as well, don't you? (if I recall correctly). Which means you've probably gone down some Olympic, or world cup runs. But you weren't "downhill skiing", were you, just... skiing?
I think you are confusing Downhill Racing with Downhill Riding - surely Fort Bill is a track open to the public when it is not being used for racing - so if I go and ride as fast as I can down it on my bike I am freeriding but if I stick a number on my bars and get someone to hold a stop watch it becomes downhill?
We race in the bike park as they do in Whistler and many other bike parks in BC - does that mean at certain points a trail in the bike park becomes a downhill track but the rest of the time its a freeride track?0 -
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A new verb: to downhill
I'm going to downhill later.0 -
I don't knowvwhat all the fuss is about. The bike looks great. It's just missing some of them aero tri-bars to make it the complete all-rounder. And a wicker basket on the front0
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Tigger con carne wrote:I don't knowvwhat all the fuss is about. The bike looks great. It's just missing some of them aero tri-bars to make it the complete all-rounder. And a wicker basket on the front
did he have a bell, I can't remember?0 -
YeehaaMcgee wrote:
Are you timing yourself, trying to beat your time, squeezing every last split second out of your run?felix.london wrote:Only cos I choose to go through the bike park...it's nicer in there. Less rocks...but more trees :?
No?
Then you're freeriding.
You ski as well, don't you? (if I recall correctly). Which means you've probably gone down some Olympic, or world cup runs. But you weren't "downhill skiing", were you, just... skiing?
You cannot make a direct comparison to skiing. People have been skiing since time begun...
If I take my snowboard on the boarderX track in the winter - then while I'm going down the track I'm riding boarderX the same as if I take my mountain bike (any mountain bike) to a purpose built DH trail then I'm obviously riding DH. The same as if I take my DH bike (again, or any bike) to the dirt jumps up the road then I'm riding dirt jumps. Same with 4X or the Olympic XC courses. A purpose built track/trail that has been designed for a certain discipline of the sport...nothing to do with stop watches or numbers!"Why have that extra tooth if you're not using it?" - Brian Lopes
Votec V.SX Enduro 'Alpine Thug' 2012/2013 build
Trek Session 80 -
You reckon you can ride 4x by yourself, or that if you're riding an Olympic XC course, that you're riding Olympic XC?
interesting.
See, I don't think you're riding boardercross if you're just going down the course. What you're doing, is snowboarding down a BX course.
Race someone down it, now it's BX.0 -
+1paul.skibum wrote:I think you are confusing Downhill Racing with Downhill RidingYeehaaMcgee wrote:If it's racing, it's DH. otherwise, it's freeriding.
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YeehaaMcgee wrote:You reckon you can ride 4x by yourself, or that if you're riding an Olympic XC course, that you're riding Olympic XC?
interesting.
See, I don't think you're riding boardercross if you're just going down the course. What you're doing, is snowboarding down a BX course.
Race someone down it, now it's BX.
What if you're 'racing' Strava in loops against your own times - what's it then?0 -
Chunkers1980 wrote:YeehaaMcgee wrote:You reckon you can ride 4x by yourself, or that if you're riding an Olympic XC course, that you're riding Olympic XC?
interesting.
See, I don't think you're riding boardercross if you're just going down the course. What you're doing, is snowboarding down a BX course.
Race someone down it, now it's BX.
What if you're 'racing' Strava in loops against your own times - what's it then?
erm..duh...Enduro obviously
"Why have that extra tooth if you're not using it?" - Brian Lopes
Votec V.SX Enduro 'Alpine Thug' 2012/2013 build
Trek Session 80 -
What the fukk am I now, the arbiter of all knowledge?Chunkers1980 wrote:YeehaaMcgee wrote:You reckon you can ride 4x by yourself, or that if you're riding an Olympic XC course, that you're riding Olympic XC?
interesting.
See, I don't think you're riding boardercross if you're just going down the course. What you're doing, is snowboarding down a BX course.
Race someone down it, now it's BX.
What if you're 'racing' Strava in loops against your own times - what's it then?
I dunno, I'm just saying that, unless it's racing, it's not DH.0 -
no its riding DownHill.. riding Down a Hill.. its not DownHill racing i will agree to that.0
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Sorry, missed a word. I'm racing against my own Strava down a hill which is of the ilk of Fort Bill - that's DH0
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that, I'd consider to be, to all intents and purposes, racing, since you're trying to beat a time.Chunkers1980 wrote:Sorry, missed a word. I'm racing against my own Strava down a hill which is of the ilk of Fort Bill - that's DH0 -
Nope, far from it , just asking you a pretty simple question:YeehaaMcgee wrote:What the fukk am I now, the arbiter of all knowledge?
If your're “racing” yourself down a DH track (using strava), riding a DH bike doing DH stuff would you call it DH riding?0 -
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I quite fancy starting DH stuff - would this be suitable? And do I have to use Strava as my phone cable isn't very long?DannyNolan wrote:
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No, it has to be a landline, I'm afraid. Use a stopwatch, and call the operator every 100 yards with an update on your position and time.0
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I have a suspicion you are taking the p1ss.I don't do smileys.
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