Skim was set to high so I don't know if it's been said...
It makes you feel like a kid again.
okbye
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Skim was set to high so I don't know if it's been said...
It makes you feel like a kid again.
okbye
Getting back on the bike after being sidelined since April because of a herniated disk.
Knowing that I am slow on the climbs, but also knowing that I am going to come back stronger and faster.
Knowing that I am timid on the corners, and would normally be going a lot faster but it will come with time.
Boise crew! Conundrum, Santos, and Mtnjam lets go for a ride this week.
nailing a line that at one point in time seemed impossible
really stuffing a berm at speed for the first time(s)
just airing doubles over rock gardens that you once picked your way through.
realizing that breaking the frame on my old bike was the best thing thats happened to my riding: new SS= way more aggressive riding.
Heh. Funny how that happens. It's what put me on a full suspension years ago--breaking my Dekerf XC bike.Quote:
Originally Posted by carbs
This will no doubt sound silly, but sometimes I'm just amazed at the fact that I'm actually pedaling a machine across the landscape. Not just watching it go by, but actually in it, a part of it, and pedaling a fricking machine through it.
Sometimes during easy solo rides my mind will wander to the point where I forgot riding entire sections ... did I ride that? I don't even remember the hill ... it didn't hurt ...
Being fit enough to hammer at threshold while focusing on some bit of minutia, a word, a sentence, a sound ... over and over inside your little cave of pain, and feeling like you could go on forever at that output, which of course you can't, but feeling like you could at that moment is just awesome.
Trailing a super smoove rider (Conundrum) on a long ass DH, watching him air the little rollers and hit the corners, desperately trying to maintain your own concentration while laughing at how rad it is to watch someone else nuke it.
Yeah Conundrum is a sooper smoove rider....what didja guys drop?
The little thing that made me happy this morning was riding to work, passing a 1/4 mile line of cars and hitting the green light just as I got to it.
The pisser about it was a lady in a crappy old model ford convertible honking at me for no apparent reason.
^^^ that is is awesome.
So I just finished a 30 page proposal for work and all I can think about is riding. I got hooked on mountain biking last summer and am even more hooked now that I have a new bike. I keep having those moments where I do something on my bike that I've never done before and it feels awesome. It's carrying me through the summer. I worked all weekend and until 3 am last night and I might get up early and go for a ride tomorrow.
Seeing new lines b/c your bro just shralped it on an old favorite trail you have so ingrained that you ride the same way every time, and vice versa.
Well behaved and friendly horses and owners outnumbered bikers at Hall Ranch today. I watched a storm roll in and railed empty singletrack. Riding bikes kicks ass.
Thought I'd bump this thread to the beginning again.
Fun single speed riding for the last two days after putting the right arm out of commission last fall due to a fractured scapula.
God I love riding my single speed
Quality bump. I just read a few pages and somehow got even more fired up to ride bikes. Hopefully a rally at Pueblo on monday.Quote:
Originally Posted by YoEddy
first rides of the year!!!
today was fun
Airing over a couple rocks or a log and nailing the tranny perfectly
i'm sure this has been said before but just happened to me: looking at nws and seeing a clear radar and actually being happy about it.
72*, dry trails in PA/DE today, and 25miles/3hrs of hauling ass makes for good times with good riding friends.
The parking lot beer while the blood dries where you ate shit, but all you remember is where you slayed it. I like that part.
Idaho springtimes. Tacky corners a week ago and powdah now.
First off, I love this thread. It has so many little things that I read and go "hey, I love that too! Remember that one time...."
I have a couple:
- First time doing lift served biking and realizing that it is like a fun pow day, but entirely different.
- Riding lift served while wearing head phones and feeling like Steve Peat when Bulls on Parade by Rage Against The Machine comes on.
- Making your own jumps on the trail just by popping off a rock or root or something.
- Racing with friends to make it back to the car before a massive thunderstorm rolls in. And hooting and hollering the whole way when thunder claps or you nail a corner.
- Seeing a hottie on a nice bike and thinking how nice it would be to ride with her, knowing that she might be able to kick your ass.
Thats all for now.
The wave of relief during rehab from a knee injury when you can just barely push a pedal over the top of the stroke. Hellsyeah.
Then just a few days later, pushing the big ring on the trainer and cranking it up to full speed. Love.
Get it, buddy!Quote:
Originally Posted by Particle
That moment after a sweet ass crash when you realize that all your limbs are still attached and more or less in working order.
Being stronger than you were when you stopped mtn. biking last fall. Man was this winter a bitch for mtn. biking on the Front Range. Oh, and using Shimano pedals instead of Candy's for the first time. Consistent release? OMFG. :)
Buying my lady her first real mtn bike and seeing her get stoked to ride any chance she gets.
^^^^
It's the start of my wife's 3rd season. First season was pretty rough, last season was much better, and on the first few rides of this season, I can tell it's all coming together for her. We went out today and she cleaned everything that she would have possibly walked last season. Good times!
When you come ripping around a familiar corner, to find a 16" tree across the trail that wasn't there last time. But before your brain freezes, the rest of you simply bunny hops it while maintaining "too much speed".......
XC Racing today, 2nd lap after a big steep ramped log-over accidently nose wheelied coming off and made a near 90* turn at 10+mph. Definitely a nice scary/fun experience with trees all over if I didn't make it.
.....knowing I can take down a burrito and a few beers after a long hard ride and really really enjoy it.
Cleaning my girlfriend's second bike she doesn't ride much and finding all the southern UT red dirt from a road trip last year.
That even doing this after being in the woods only fifteen minutes, he is still grinning.
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Sending the big jump line. This even after getting the piss scared out of me from an imminent disaster to somehow miracle save jump on the smaller line.
Standing on top of Toads. First time in the start gate of a DH. watching my 12yo future stepson build jumps in the yard and keep bugging me about the snow on corral loop. Post ride PBRs with the Utah crew after a long day in Moab.
Forgetting about everything else and just pedaling. The wind in my ears. Freedom.
Bumping this thread to the top again. It is one of my favorites.
Getting back on the bike and feeling comfortable on it after two big wrecks this year that really messed with my head. Not confident enough to rail and charge, but comfortable enough to move around a bit on the bike and let it move a bit under me without tensing up.
Slowly getting back into it! Yeee!
^thanks for the bump, i was just thinking about this thread.
going on a family vacation for 2 weeks (no riding just lots of family stress), and then coming back and railing your everyday trail ride. feels just like the first time!
Because it lets me eat like a fucking hog, and enjoy my feeding times.
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It makes me new friends.
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Lets me see new places.
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And try new things, such as this FWOatation device.
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Night riding under a full moon