Freeride is dead?

[Gripen]

Article over on Pinkbike

http://www.pinkbike.com/news/Is-the-...Over-2011.html

and the response by Mike Hopkins.

http://www.pinkbike.com/news/Freerid...ideo-2011.html

Personally, I agree with the vid. Who the fuck cares? It's riding. It's fun. Have at it.

[Particle]

Who the fuck cares? It's riding. It's fun. Have at it.

Agreed with this ^, and I think Mr. Scott does as well, based on his closing statement: "In the end, I don't think any of us get to decide. There's something larger going on, and we can only wonder with great excitement what that might be."

Funny vid tho!

[iscariot]

who gives a fuck, go ride your bike for fun.

[marshalolson]

THIS JUT IN: its all cyclical.

racing bmx was awesome. then dirt jumping (aka og freeride) was awesome. then xc/ds/dh racing was awesome. then freerinding was awesome. now super d racing (and matching pajama pant suits) is awesome.

riding bikes is awesome.

[bagtagley]

The argument used to be whether or not "freeride" even existed.

riding bikes is awesome.

Irrefutable.

[marshalolson]

freeriding sure ain't free

[jm2e]

Can I be a freerider if I don't do, like, flips, and like, jumps and shit? What if I just ride around with, like, a free spirit?

[iscariot]

freeriding sure ain't free

Freeride costs a buck 'o five.

[Particle]

What about All Mountaining? Will Super D racing kill All Mountaining?

[Big E]

Whatever kind of riding it is that Hopkins is doing in that vid, that's what I'd like to be doing (and I speak from both a trail and a skill perspective!).

[kidwoo]

For sure the next gay as hell term soon to be outdated is all mountain.
At least I really really really really really really really really really hope so.
There is nothing quite as stupid that has ever preceded it.

I mean most days......honestly.......I'm just 'most mountaining' at best. Sometimes even just 'half mountaining'. And if I were truly sincere, I'd come clean that a lot of the time, I'm just 'meh mountaining'. Which is synonymous with 'smidgen mountaining'

[joetron]

I saw the term "all trail" used in a bike review in Decline a few months ago. I threw up in my mouth a little bit.

It's brutal in a retail environment when people come in and throw around "all mountain". I try to passively set them straight with an XC race, trail, DH (maybe a FR dichotomy thrown in when it matters) breakdown, but the question "Whats more all-mountain?" always seems to rear it's ugly head.

Thankfully I don't hear "black diamond" any more. That was full-on intervention time.

[SLSki]

Aren't we all mature enought (well most of us) that we don't need labels? Freeriding/DH/whatever, dating/hooking up... c'mon it's all the same

But really, I could care less what they call or classify what I do on my bike. As long as they keep making the same kind of bikes, call it noodling or flybiking or whatever.

[lph]

all mountain is non-sensical, i don't think i have ever used that term and i would hope arty or davep knocks me in the head if I do.

I do like the term trail riding even though it really doesn't say much other than you are on a trail with a bike.

flow, at least 'black diamond' means something that people from a common geographic area can understand.

when they destroyed a local trail called the Xmas Valley DH and turned it into a pile of shitty rocks people started calling it the Xmas Valley UpHill. Well, people who belong on smooth XC trails decided it would probably be a good ride for them and started coming off the trail all busted up cause it was a difficult pile of shitty rocks that happened to be arranged in a way that promoted falling over ones handle bars.

[kidwoo]

the question "Whats more all-mountain?" always seems to rear it's ugly head.

I think you're supposed to sell them some garmin thing that clutters up their bars at that point. And show them where to mount it right next to the fork lockout lever, the gravity dropper lever and the rear shock lever. Plus some knee pads. Can't go all mountaining without some knee pads.

[joetron]

The real reason for the wide bar trend is so we can fit more shit on there. You're just a stooge for Rupert Murdoch's mountainbike handlebar accessory venture.

Oh, and its all about elbow pads. Elbow pads first, then knee pads.

[squatch]

I think my bikes are non-Mountain.

[kevin267]

Riding the (whistler bike) park
going for a pedally ride
shuttling
dirt jumping


those are the terms I use haha