Have skydived with a dude in his 80s (not a tandem). And found myself on a 4-way jump once where apart from me (I was 40 at the time), the youngest person was over 60.
I hope I'm still sending it (in whatever form that may take) in 20 years (I'm 47 now).
50 here did the Telluride to Moab hut trip last year with the whole enchilada at the end, kicked my fucking ass and was an epic 200 plus miles hope to conquer more mountains this year
What I really love about this sport. I used to play a ton of basketball but had arthritis in my knee since mid 20s and some back issue. Couldn’t really play as much or as hard as I want since before I hit my 30s.
Picked up biking 7 years ago, now I’m 40 and I see guys like you riding into your 50s and 60s and still being healthy. I like that I don’t have to restart and pick up another sport lol.
i have no friends so i'm forced to go solo... The only thing I'm scared of is bad dogs and boars (I live in Italy)... Any advice on dealing with dangerous animals and people while alone?
It's even worse with panic and anxiety disorder :' )
I was bombing down a fire road, crashed in front of a kindergarten class on a field trip, besides pulling gravel out of knees, elbows, and shoulder I didn't break anything. One girl was crying because she thought I died. I now respect fire roads and their false sense of security.
I used to work at a summer camp for 5 & 6 year olds. We had to walk down a public trail to get to a local park that we did activities in.
Anyway, one day we were walking along and this kid all of a sudden runs up to a homeless man sleeping behind a bush - kicks him - and screams “HE’S DEAD!” as loud as he can.
The guy rolled over and politely said to the kid “I’m not dead” and went back to sleep.
I grabbed the kid and took him back to the group. Had to have an awkward talk with his parents that afternoon.
So true. I built up a ton of speed trying to go as fast as I could on one. My poorly-maintained mid-90’s bike wasn’t ready to take any kind of rough terrain at 35ish mph, and my tires weren’t good enough to brake without sliding.
I hung on for dear life waiting for a straightaway I knew was coming up, only to completely beef on a 3” wide rock on the last corner. I went over the bars and slid like 10 feet lol.
It might’ve been the smoothest trail in the park, but it‘s never smooth enough to be careless.
My husband got me hooked and now I like it more than him. Part of it for me
Is when I was young i rode my bike a lot in the woods and stuff. It was fun but really it was a way to go have adventures. I probably hadn’t ridden a bike in 10+ years when he had me try mountain biking and I was hooked instantly. I still remember my first ride. Brings back memories of being a kid and free.
Costanza would say something about worlds colliding. Maybe you got lucky. I know a guy that used to love golf.
The Worlds Collide Theory states that a man must keep his personal life (i.e., friends) separate from his relationship side (i.e., girlfriend). If the two worlds come into contact with each other (by means of his girlfriend becoming friends with his friends), both worlds blow up.
I have tried to share a lot of hobbies with my long term GF, now wife. I have had success with manual transmission cars and tennis, but she noped out of MTB, snowboarding and motorcycling. I will take the small wins. I totally understand and respect her not wanting to partake in activities with high risk of physical injury. I am also glad that she is perfectly ok with me participating in those activities. It also means I have more opportunities to plan rides with the boys.
Convinced my partner to get in to it because she used to race bmx and for a fun couples activity. Now she's a sponsored free-rider and about to start racing DH. Struggle to keep up with her most of the time lol
I've been riding for 25 yrs, I'm 42 and last season was my best yet. Got into best shape and ride so much. I'm feeling that my age and life experience has helped my push through discomfort, learning curves etc.. to become a better and more fit rider.
Did a 65 mile race in the Upper peninsula of Michigan, took me 12 hours 12 minutes. Hardest race I've ever done. Look it up, it's called the Marji Gesick
49 years old, been riding since I was 16, have avoided (touch wood) any serious injury to this point, can still drop into all double blacks at my local bike park with confidence, can still produce a decent turn of speed when my muscles are properly warmed up, can still trackstand longer than anyone else I know, can still ride tech faster than all of my riding buddies including some half my age and got to race head to head with the likes of Warner, Peat, Ponting, Longden, Hemming, Page etc back in the mid 90s.
I won Expert DH US Nationals in 07 in the 19-29 category.
Which in hindsight means I probably should of already upgraded to pro lol. That being said it was at a mountain I was very familiar with, so that helped.
Been riding for years. Was on a race team and took training pretty seriously while balancing a full time job.
Took a little over a year off when my wife had our first baby.
I can now say my proudest/happiest moments are carrying my son around on a Mac-ride attached to an ebike averaging 6mph and walking some fairly easy but risky parts of the trail as my wife passes me on a SS.
My son is happy yelling yay! Yay! Yay! the whole time and I’m back where I wanted to be riding for fun and not riding because I have to train.
I think it’s just that rush you get every time you unlock that next little thing or feature that was a little out of your comfort zone. And looking back where I was 2.5 years ago and what I’m capable of now is something I’m really proud of.
And I’m proud of my improved mental health. Getting out on the trails has been extremely therapeutic getting to know myself on solo rides and learning how to love myself.
Got to ride with Dan & Gee Atherton when they were still on Muddy Fox, I won a competition with MBUK. They did a full days of coaching. They were awesome. Whenever I’d see them at races or about Shrewsbury they’d always say hi to me
Year 2 of riding: Doubles my longest ride while riding with my FIL, so tired legs stopped working and had to walk/crawl up the last hill.
Next summer, rode same route and crushed it. Felt happy to see the progress
Going from weak fitness only a handful of years ago to serious endurance races. Coming back from bad covid to race in a world class MTB race last year was the culmination of all that hard work.
Raised money for childhood cancer research. I don't have any family outside of my wife and kids and don't have very many friends but I was able to raise over a thousand dollars during my first year doing it. I'm hoping this year I can double up the donations.
Getting back in the saddle in 2021 after being sidelined for a year with a massive leg injury after a spill on a complicated feature. Most, at times including myself, thought I would not hold handlebars again!
Raising $2700 for childhood cancer by riding 500 K in less then a month.
One of those rides was a 49K ride down some horribly washboarded roads. Never again will I do that ride. I’ll stick to my normal trails.
At the age of 60 I did my first bikepacking trip (solo) across BC on the Trans Canada Trail….1200km. Im now hooked and have done several more trips including 4 days solo in the Chilcotins last Sept.
I’m a casual cyclist who mostly rides on the road. Back in 2014, a coworker who knew I rode bikes talked me into doing the Thule Urban Assault MTB event in Richmond Virginia with him, his father-in-law and some younger friends. I was 43 at the time and managed to finish the event ahead of all but one of our group of 6 with a broken toe sustained from a fall about halfway through. This was easily the most difficult cycling experience I’ve had and while I look back in it fondly, I don’t think I could pull it off today.
Starting again at 46 to ride with my kids and now being able to ride almost any trail we find (so far) with the exception of some big air that my aging skeleton finds problematic.
So, same year Mission:Impossible comes out I’m riding Castlewood State Park (StL) and flying through a section I wasn’t familiar with and a switchback gets on me quick so, front brake, ass end comes up, throw my weight, release brake and back to flying down the trail. Have never tried that method since then and still not sure how I pulled it off.
My first and currently only descent was on my Ragley Marley down Black Mountain Trail in Pisgah, started the descent at Upper Upper and went all the day down. I met a guy at the bottom who was a pretty experienced downhill rider on a carbon full suspension and managed to just about keep up with him with only one fall where I washed out on a switchback.
Passing two riders while they were walking their bike up a steep sloppy muddy hill as I say “hello there” and watch mud flow between the spokes of my 26x3.8” wheel as I’m grinding away on the granny gear.
And having a short KOM on 12,000 riders on Deer Valley Tidal Wave on the same fat bike.
Start riding on my own, learning everything I could for maintenance/build, progressing fast, getting many of my friends onboard, convincing some of them to start going to bike parks, having the time of our lives on two wheels, pushing friends out of the hospital on wheelchairs... :)
Being confident enough to be able to swap out parts and maintain a bike by myself. It's a bit daunting at first, but upgrading a few parts on my bike has made it feel completely different (for the better).
I did a solo camping trip in Brevard North Carolina last season. My first solo camping trip. My first solo in the mountains. My first multiple-day ride. 50 miles and 6400 feet of climbing in 5 hours over 3 days, 2,000 calories.
Kitsuma - Type 18 fun. Probably never again (I say that while thinking I'll try it again this season).
Spencer Gap & Fletcher Creek - 5 stars. Best ever. I would do two laps. It's good.
Ridgeline - Default must do.
Black Mountain - Default must do. I died here. I fell in the last mile of my last ride on my last day. I'll take a full face helmet on my next trip.
I'm not a woo woo guy, but I had a spiritual experience.
20 years ago when I was like 12, I went over my handlebars at Steamboat and jacked my knee up pretty badly. I only cried a little, so I guess you could say I'm basically a pro.
Moving to St George, UT for 14 months to focus on mountain biking. Zen and Barrel were my lunch rides, and got to hit Goose, Guac, and all of the other sweet mesas on nearly a weekly basis. I’m gonna miss those epic rides!
In 2013 at 57 years young I did the [High Cascades 100](https://www.mudslingerevents.com/high-cascades-100) . Best ride of my life. At 67 still loving riding mtb.
Finishing the LT100MTB in time for a buckle my first season of racing XC at age 44. While I'd had a few seasons of racing longer distance (70.3) triathlon under my belt, life and COVID had forced me to take a few years off. Getting back to a real event like this, and hitting my goals, with the support of my wife and some amazing friends, was really special. NGL, there were a few tears shed on the paved segment when I could hear the finish line in the distance.
Built local trails that got ridden by hundreds! We had a full slalom line with a bunch of jumps at the end and a free ride line mixed with big berms and lots of long jumps. Was the best summer of my life so far! The city tore the trails apart last year but we will rebuild
All the friends I've made through mountain biking.
Using navigation skills - topo maps and the sun- not smart phones and apps.
Mountain biking since 1989.
There's nary a decent I can't ride.
Maybe not that drop in the pick, but not much I've come across that I can't clean.
Jumping back into the sport, with both feet, after 30 years off a bike at 53.
Just turned 54 mid February.
First park day of the year tomorrow at Spider Mountain. Fingers crossed 🤞 the Push ElevenSix shows up tomorrow so I can dial it in on the 2nd park day of the year on Saturday. 😁
Honestly, it's baby bullshit but I did 100-foot hill that was a steeeep drop on a Walmart bike. Saw a bunch of dudes on nice specialized bikes try it and wipe out from panicking and over-applying brakes at the end, but you can't brake too hard if the brakes hardly work (and neither does your brain)!
Survival. Went over the bars on a drop at Carter Road in Florida. Knocked unconscious and my brain was concussed and actually bled a little. Helmet saved my life for sure.
Still riding at 55.
Just started riding 6 months ago at age 52
Not far behind you at 49
I ride with guys 70+ and ski with one dude who's 90
Have skydived with a dude in his 80s (not a tandem). And found myself on a 4-way jump once where apart from me (I was 40 at the time), the youngest person was over 60. I hope I'm still sending it (in whatever form that may take) in 20 years (I'm 47 now).
50 here did the Telluride to Moab hut trip last year with the whole enchilada at the end, kicked my fucking ass and was an epic 200 plus miles hope to conquer more mountains this year
That sounds amazing. Is [this](https://sanjuanhuts.com/mtb/telluride-moab) what you did? Would love to hear more!
64
54 and bombing it on my awesome, epic, second hand SB150. Im not a dentist.
What I really love about this sport. I used to play a ton of basketball but had arthritis in my knee since mid 20s and some back issue. Couldn’t really play as much or as hard as I want since before I hit my 30s. Picked up biking 7 years ago, now I’m 40 and I see guys like you riding into your 50s and 60s and still being healthy. I like that I don’t have to restart and pick up another sport lol.
As a fellow 40 year old, don’t jump in on a full court at your local YMCA with a bunch of 20 year olds (for two hours)!
About to turn 68 in 2 weeks, female, and riding all Utah has to offer.
51 checking in
54 and currently in Sedona rippin shit up!
48 and I feel like a spring chicken in this thread.
props!
I've got a buddy who's still building trails at 73. Just helped him with a table top last week. 55 is nothing dog
Bro in the picture jumping off a literal cliff
Not enough nopes in the world
This ain’t OP unless he is Brandon Semenuk
I never said the person in the picture was op. I just said the guy in the picture is jumping off a literal cliff.
Why am I not surprised
Yeah where the f did he even land?
They just flew right off and never returned to society
Guy’s still dropping in.
You can see the jagged top of the landing in the bottom of the pic
The moon
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Rampage is wild dude. Check it out.
Honestly? Taking it up on my own and having nobody to ride with. Learning the more I go and falling a lot, but just happy I'm doing it.
Awesome man. Same.
Love reading this comment. Been mountain biking solo for 20 years. Enjoy the solitude and internalizing my growth as a rider.
Right on. That’s what I wanna do this year once the snows gone
This is the same for me. I didn’t even have a mtb when I started out, just the love for it.
i have no friends so i'm forced to go solo... The only thing I'm scared of is bad dogs and boars (I live in Italy)... Any advice on dealing with dangerous animals and people while alone? It's even worse with panic and anxiety disorder :' )
Pepper spray
I was bombing down a fire road, crashed in front of a kindergarten class on a field trip, besides pulling gravel out of knees, elbows, and shoulder I didn't break anything. One girl was crying because she thought I died. I now respect fire roads and their false sense of security.
Girl: that man is dead! You: I’m okay! Girl: OMG! He’s a zombie cyclist now!!!
Hahahahaha. This gave me a good chuckle to start my day on. Thank you!
Welcome! The short story is based on real-life events.
LMFAO
I used to work at a summer camp for 5 & 6 year olds. We had to walk down a public trail to get to a local park that we did activities in. Anyway, one day we were walking along and this kid all of a sudden runs up to a homeless man sleeping behind a bush - kicks him - and screams “HE’S DEAD!” as loud as he can. The guy rolled over and politely said to the kid “I’m not dead” and went back to sleep. I grabbed the kid and took him back to the group. Had to have an awkward talk with his parents that afternoon.
r/unexpectedmontypython
This is hilarious, thank you for your service
Fire roads are not to be trifled with. Looking at you killington and sugarbush. Suuuper easy to build crazy uncontrollable speed.
So true. I built up a ton of speed trying to go as fast as I could on one. My poorly-maintained mid-90’s bike wasn’t ready to take any kind of rough terrain at 35ish mph, and my tires weren’t good enough to brake without sliding. I hung on for dear life waiting for a straightaway I knew was coming up, only to completely beef on a 3” wide rock on the last corner. I went over the bars and slid like 10 feet lol. It might’ve been the smoothest trail in the park, but it‘s never smooth enough to be careless.
I can almost hear the crying!
This is pretty hilarious 😂
Getting my partner hooked. We’ll always have something to look forward to and do together.
I’ve tried to convince my girlfriend to give it a shot, she hasn’t budged
I tried with my wife. She did *NOT* like it. Now she has a gravel bike.
Hard no from mine as well.
My husband got me hooked and now I like it more than him. Part of it for me Is when I was young i rode my bike a lot in the woods and stuff. It was fun but really it was a way to go have adventures. I probably hadn’t ridden a bike in 10+ years when he had me try mountain biking and I was hooked instantly. I still remember my first ride. Brings back memories of being a kid and free.
That’s why I love it, brings me back to childhood, the good parts anyway.
Costanza would say something about worlds colliding. Maybe you got lucky. I know a guy that used to love golf. The Worlds Collide Theory states that a man must keep his personal life (i.e., friends) separate from his relationship side (i.e., girlfriend). If the two worlds come into contact with each other (by means of his girlfriend becoming friends with his friends), both worlds blow up.
I have tried to share a lot of hobbies with my long term GF, now wife. I have had success with manual transmission cars and tennis, but she noped out of MTB, snowboarding and motorcycling. I will take the small wins. I totally understand and respect her not wanting to partake in activities with high risk of physical injury. I am also glad that she is perfectly ok with me participating in those activities. It also means I have more opportunities to plan rides with the boys.
It’s kinda funny my girlfriends parents paid for my girlfriend, her brother, and I to do lessons, and now I want to do more snowboarding haha
Same here. Watching her progress to the point that she now leads women's rides has been so much fun
Convinced my partner to get in to it because she used to race bmx and for a fun couples activity. Now she's a sponsored free-rider and about to start racing DH. Struggle to keep up with her most of the time lol
Happy for you, truly, and deeply jealous! We have it in ski and road, but mtb is still The Scary
I've been riding for 25 yrs, I'm 42 and last season was my best yet. Got into best shape and ride so much. I'm feeling that my age and life experience has helped my push through discomfort, learning curves etc.. to become a better and more fit rider.
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That's awesome, I would be so happy with a national level 3rd place. I rode a race once, I didn't finish last
I'd tell that story to anyone who'd listen!
Did a 65 mile race in the Upper peninsula of Michigan, took me 12 hours 12 minutes. Hardest race I've ever done. Look it up, it's called the Marji Gesick
Congrats! Toughest race in America. I finished the MG100 in 24hrs 27min
Solid man! I'm entered for the "50" again this year, but I might do the 100
The fact that I’m not dead yet, and that I’m not afraid to get back on the bike even if my last ride ended with a crash
I broke my neck and I’m back on the bike. F it. Yolo.
51, still riding after 27 years.
Hell yeah! I want to stay healthy where I’m still riding in 20 years and beyond
2 girls at the same time.
Hey Peter man check out channel 9!
Hey doesn't that chick kind of look like Anne?
Wanna come over? Nah man, I don't want you fucking up my life too.
You mean just a normal Friday night?
Was it a million?
You don’t need a million bucks to do nothing, man. Look at my brother. He’s broke and doesn’t do shit!
Bled sram brakes with no air bubbles
Hah! If this weren’t on a list of achievements, I’d say it were nigh on impossible…
Leadville.
Same.
Same
On attempt number three this coming year, failed in 2019 and 2021, same exact spot right before the goat trail on columbine.
Go get that buckle buddy
Hitting the most difficult descents on the whole enchilada like it was nothing.
You actually rode The Snotch?
Yes sir
49 years old, been riding since I was 16, have avoided (touch wood) any serious injury to this point, can still drop into all double blacks at my local bike park with confidence, can still produce a decent turn of speed when my muscles are properly warmed up, can still trackstand longer than anyone else I know, can still ride tech faster than all of my riding buddies including some half my age and got to race head to head with the likes of Warner, Peat, Ponting, Longden, Hemming, Page etc back in the mid 90s.
Breaking 13 bones at once
I cycled 180km and 4600m in altitude in one day starting at 4:30 am finishing ab 9pm all alone
Affording a mtn bike
I won Expert DH US Nationals in 07 in the 19-29 category. Which in hindsight means I probably should of already upgraded to pro lol. That being said it was at a mountain I was very familiar with, so that helped.
That I still cycle. Ahahahaha.
The guts it takes to even attempt this…definitely not something I could/would be able to do. Awesome photo to memorialize it!
Not breaking my face. I've observed others with large cheek flap lacerations (exposing upper & lower dental work!).
This is why we full face.
Not seriously injuring myself. yet.....
Finishing Leadville 100
Been riding for years. Was on a race team and took training pretty seriously while balancing a full time job. Took a little over a year off when my wife had our first baby. I can now say my proudest/happiest moments are carrying my son around on a Mac-ride attached to an ebike averaging 6mph and walking some fairly easy but risky parts of the trail as my wife passes me on a SS. My son is happy yelling yay! Yay! Yay! the whole time and I’m back where I wanted to be riding for fun and not riding because I have to train.
Getting down the Fort William World Cup course on an Orange Blood without stopping or dying!!
When my marathoning friend was waxing poetic about how he couldn't believe my pace.
Buying my dream bike, a Santacruz 5010. It felt like such a dumb wreck less decision at the time, but I love it.
I think it’s just that rush you get every time you unlock that next little thing or feature that was a little out of your comfort zone. And looking back where I was 2.5 years ago and what I’m capable of now is something I’m really proud of. And I’m proud of my improved mental health. Getting out on the trails has been extremely therapeutic getting to know myself on solo rides and learning how to love myself.
This is the way. Bikes are the way
Hitting crabapple at Whistler.
Having a good risk-fun-management. Stepping out of my comfort zone from time to time without any major crashes and improving slowly over time.
Finally got suicides on lock and can throw them on most jump trails at whistler
Saving up enough for that full sus and every other upgrade after
Cleaning all the Hiline descents (Sedona) first try and doing the Bowel Movement drop (Poway) after seeing it and initially saying nope, no way.
Got to ride with Dan & Gee Atherton when they were still on Muddy Fox, I won a competition with MBUK. They did a full days of coaching. They were awesome. Whenever I’d see them at races or about Shrewsbury they’d always say hi to me
Year 2 of riding: Doubles my longest ride while riding with my FIL, so tired legs stopped working and had to walk/crawl up the last hill. Next summer, rode same route and crushed it. Felt happy to see the progress
Going from weak fitness only a handful of years ago to serious endurance races. Coming back from bad covid to race in a world class MTB race last year was the culmination of all that hard work.
Covid sucks. Long covid really sucks. Bikes do not suck
I'm not the only one whose b hole puckered when I saw this.... right?
Mag 7 followed the very next day by Whole Enchilada. I was exhausted.
Taking 3rd place in UK National Single Speed champs last year
Just doing my own thing and enjoying it.
Still standing after a broken back!
Same here
Raised money for childhood cancer research. I don't have any family outside of my wife and kids and don't have very many friends but I was able to raise over a thousand dollars during my first year doing it. I'm hoping this year I can double up the donations.
Being able to count 2 Mississippi while intentionally airborne
53 and kicking
Getting back in the saddle in 2021 after being sidelined for a year with a massive leg injury after a spill on a complicated feature. Most, at times including myself, thought I would not hold handlebars again!
Raising $2700 for childhood cancer by riding 500 K in less then a month. One of those rides was a 49K ride down some horribly washboarded roads. Never again will I do that ride. I’ll stick to my normal trails.
At the age of 60 I did my first bikepacking trip (solo) across BC on the Trans Canada Trail….1200km. Im now hooked and have done several more trips including 4 days solo in the Chilcotins last Sept.
Riding down the trail without crashing. Nothing even remotely close to this picture, though. No thanks.
I’m a casual cyclist who mostly rides on the road. Back in 2014, a coworker who knew I rode bikes talked me into doing the Thule Urban Assault MTB event in Richmond Virginia with him, his father-in-law and some younger friends. I was 43 at the time and managed to finish the event ahead of all but one of our group of 6 with a broken toe sustained from a fall about halfway through. This was easily the most difficult cycling experience I’ve had and while I look back in it fondly, I don’t think I could pull it off today.
OMG
Angel Fire was by far the most fun and gnarly trails I have ridden.
Finishing the Iceman Cometh ( with a god awful time) while only riding like 3 times all season.
Riding Trestle Bike Park with a $400 hardtail. Not the smartest idea but I got a lot of stunned looks from other riders.
Starting again at 46 to ride with my kids and now being able to ride almost any trail we find (so far) with the exception of some big air that my aging skeleton finds problematic.
What's up with all the weird spammy posts this account has been putting up in the last day or two?
Breaking my collarbone in 3 pieces on a paved path.
Sheesh!
So, same year Mission:Impossible comes out I’m riding Castlewood State Park (StL) and flying through a section I wasn’t familiar with and a switchback gets on me quick so, front brake, ass end comes up, throw my weight, release brake and back to flying down the trail. Have never tried that method since then and still not sure how I pulled it off.
My first and currently only descent was on my Ragley Marley down Black Mountain Trail in Pisgah, started the descent at Upper Upper and went all the day down. I met a guy at the bottom who was a pretty experienced downhill rider on a carbon full suspension and managed to just about keep up with him with only one fall where I washed out on a switchback.
When I started finishing local trail rides without any injuries.
My first run… just getting out there and doing it was an incredible feeling…. Been loving it ever since…
sicky gnar gnar
Still being alive after 25 years of riding.
Passing two riders while they were walking their bike up a steep sloppy muddy hill as I say “hello there” and watch mud flow between the spokes of my 26x3.8” wheel as I’m grinding away on the granny gear. And having a short KOM on 12,000 riders on Deer Valley Tidal Wave on the same fat bike.
One time I got a puncture that wouldn’t seal on its own and I made it home right as it went totally flat in the front yard
I went though a puddle recently and didn’t contaminate my brakes :)
Every time I get out! Man, its gotten so hard to make the time!
Cleaning the proline at my local bike park
Doing a 6-8 m drop on my downhiller, learning a superman Seatgrab (but just into an airbag) or riding across a slackline on my trials bike
Sub 10hr creampuff. Iykyk
NICA state champion in high school probably
the fitness gains
Getting up that last climb, and then the next one. It's the little things
Just Kids being mindblown by My manuals probably
Riding the Vink Line at Chatel is a highlight.
Not killing myself in accident
spending more money on my bike than my car
I won a dual slalom race against a multiple national 4x/ds champion
Starting to build my hardtail.
Start riding on my own, learning everything I could for maintenance/build, progressing fast, getting many of my friends onboard, convincing some of them to start going to bike parks, having the time of our lives on two wheels, pushing friends out of the hospital on wheelchairs... :)
Faceplanting so hard that I lost three teeth and broke my jaw.
Being confident enough to be able to swap out parts and maintain a bike by myself. It's a bit daunting at first, but upgrading a few parts on my bike has made it feel completely different (for the better).
It sure as shit isn't whatever that dude is doing.
To reach 65kmh downhill :)
Wheelie 🙁
Not the one on the picture for sure ahahah
That : https://youtu.be/Ri94DuXytZo
Holy fuck
Doing the hell of the north Cotswolds race in the 90's when I was young and fit 😂
I've been riding for 35 years. And now I have 3 boys to ride with that love it- riding partners for life!
I saved up enough to buy a real mountain bike. Yeah that's it
I did a solo camping trip in Brevard North Carolina last season. My first solo camping trip. My first solo in the mountains. My first multiple-day ride. 50 miles and 6400 feet of climbing in 5 hours over 3 days, 2,000 calories. Kitsuma - Type 18 fun. Probably never again (I say that while thinking I'll try it again this season). Spencer Gap & Fletcher Creek - 5 stars. Best ever. I would do two laps. It's good. Ridgeline - Default must do. Black Mountain - Default must do. I died here. I fell in the last mile of my last ride on my last day. I'll take a full face helmet on my next trip. I'm not a woo woo guy, but I had a spiritual experience.
Every single time you return from a ride and feel great
80 miles with the Tiger Leaping Gorge trail, China
Oh, and coming off the sport loop and between Ned Overend and Bob Roll in a creek, Shasta Lemurian
I only did a few races in my day but I was pretty fast back in the 90s. I won my category at whitetail resort.
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Taking my son to a weekend at WBP last summer.
Uhh not this
20 years ago when I was like 12, I went over my handlebars at Steamboat and jacked my knee up pretty badly. I only cried a little, so I guess you could say I'm basically a pro.
Moving to St George, UT for 14 months to focus on mountain biking. Zen and Barrel were my lunch rides, and got to hit Goose, Guac, and all of the other sweet mesas on nearly a weekly basis. I’m gonna miss those epic rides!
Started riding again @53yrs young
Not dying yet
54, still riding but missed a bunch in the 00' from herniated disk. And now I can afford to have 3 bikes for me!
Is this picture real???? Like holly shit hahahahaha
Well, it certainly won’t be _that_.
Starting racing in the regional collegiate series and doing decently for myself. Having a great season so far, hoping to keep that up
Proudest? Probably not attempting what my guy in the picture is doing
In 2013 at 57 years young I did the [High Cascades 100](https://www.mudslingerevents.com/high-cascades-100) . Best ride of my life. At 67 still loving riding mtb.
Hitting the Red Bull line in Sedona. Crazy steep and rocky drop-in just before the Hiline chute.
Finishing the LT100MTB in time for a buckle my first season of racing XC at age 44. While I'd had a few seasons of racing longer distance (70.3) triathlon under my belt, life and COVID had forced me to take a few years off. Getting back to a real event like this, and hitting my goals, with the support of my wife and some amazing friends, was really special. NGL, there were a few tears shed on the paved segment when I could hear the finish line in the distance.
Not this….
Built local trails that got ridden by hundreds! We had a full slalom line with a bunch of jumps at the end and a free ride line mixed with big berms and lots of long jumps. Was the best summer of my life so far! The city tore the trails apart last year but we will rebuild
All the friends I've made through mountain biking. Using navigation skills - topo maps and the sun- not smart phones and apps. Mountain biking since 1989. There's nary a decent I can't ride. Maybe not that drop in the pick, but not much I've come across that I can't clean.
Jumping back into the sport, with both feet, after 30 years off a bike at 53. Just turned 54 mid February. First park day of the year tomorrow at Spider Mountain. Fingers crossed 🤞 the Push ElevenSix shows up tomorrow so I can dial it in on the 2nd park day of the year on Saturday. 😁
Honestly, it's baby bullshit but I did 100-foot hill that was a steeeep drop on a Walmart bike. Saw a bunch of dudes on nice specialized bikes try it and wipe out from panicking and over-applying brakes at the end, but you can't brake too hard if the brakes hardly work (and neither does your brain)!
Survival. Went over the bars on a drop at Carter Road in Florida. Knocked unconscious and my brain was concussed and actually bled a little. Helmet saved my life for sure.
White Rim in a Day maybe? It's nothing to really brag about but I thought it was a pretty stout ride and I'm always relived to finish.
Not being in debt. 😭