101 Things we hate about MTB

[Adi]

Self explanitory, add to it :)

I'll shall start off.

1) Headwinds
2) Pinch Flats
3) Long hills (for most of us anyway)
4) Skipping Gears
5) Slipping off the pedals and poling yourself :lol:

Your turn. 8)

[S.]

Elitists.

[Adi]

8) Random people who tell you you could have bought a malvern star and not got ripped off.

[Emmett]

The money required to participate.

[Adi]

Common people, keep the numbers, that was number 8, next is number 10

[naz]

10)cops
11)dodgy bike shops
12)you have a hardtail and ppl ask y dont u get back suspension[

[Adi]

Ahh god damn it, some people never learn. :?

*sigh*

13) People who think it is a BMX

[Scott]

14) injuries.
15) nevins.
16) strange rattles.
17) stuff that breaks
18) dead sailoring when trying to pull style.
19) evil bush rangers.
20) although our bikes can do all sorts of terrain, we have to drive long distances to find anything suitable.
21) no shuttle transport.
22) race fees.
23) public liability.
24) rain during runs.

[andrew]

the reputation that some people give the sport and how others cop the flak

people who say "just buy a bmx"

people who call piddly tweaks x-ups and tilt their bike a tiny bit and call it a flatty

[Fatman]

28) "You could get a motor bike for that price mate" yeh thanks dickhead
29) Wankers whose dogs attack you and blame you for the aggro
30) All the cool shit you can never afford to buy and ride
31) Finding that cool shit cheap after shelling out for lesser equipment
32) Your non riding friends not understanding what it's all about
33) Not being able to test ride primo rigs before you buy them
34) Getting to the trail you drove hours to get to and you forgot a wheel.
35) Your lights crapping out in the middle of a night ride
36) Tearing a 2cm hole in a $110 new tubeless tyre

37) Making everyone jealous because im awesome...Wait thats a good thing :D

[Gemini]

38) People that havnt been off the couch in years telling you are crazy for riding all the time

39) STUPID MORONS SAY "POP A MONO!!!"

[Gemini]

40 ) Broken limbs

[Gemini]

41 ) People who ask "How much is your bike worth?"

[lupine128]

42) needing just one more thing to have your rig ready to ride, and knowing it's going to take 2 weeks to afford it.

[Mason]

43) When you break a part in the middle of no where :shock:

[ELX]

44. Non-Riding friends calling Huffy dualys and other cheap dual suspention bikes DH Bikes.

45. People who thin a bike is god or bad by just looking at it and not riding it or knowing the specks.

[LTR]

46. fear of doing things (being shit scared)

[toodles]

47) the annoying physics which mean I push for 25 minutes to do a run that lasts for 2 and a half.

48} being told I could have bought a moto

49) trail access issues

50) riding through dog poo

[CHEWY]

51) "do a backflip"

[peachy]

lol i refuse to think that mountain biking has anything bad about it
*don't listen to the bad men peachy, don't listen to them*

[bmxbandit]

52) people who make excuses for not doing things they reckon they can but clearly dont have the skills to :x
53) worrying oldies
54) jumps on race tracks that arent built right and are therefore plain dangerous...eg kickers that look like this / with no curve in em.
55) only 1 timed run that counts at races
56) when people go on about all the stuff they can do (back it up then)
57) bulk rain so u cant ride :cry:

[scotty beefs]

58) the posses at races and on the tracks that are too cool for school
59) chicks asking (of my HT) "does it have rear suspension"
60) thieves

[Rik]

61 ) Having mechanical incidents in the middle of a ride, ruining your flow and dampening motivation

[Carlin]

61 ) Having mechanical incidents in the middle of a ride, ruining your flow and dampening motivation

62) Snapping rear mechs :oops:

That dog poo one has to be the worst I HATE :evil: riding through dog poo

[timmyDH]

63) ppl when i was at school telling me that i could have bought a commodore for that money.

been out of school for 3 years now and i've bought and sold the commodore. now i've got a new car and a dh bike and some of them still haven't got their first car. so there poo heads (if they're reading a mtb website)

[zac]

64) not having the confidence to ride shit that i know i can

[hugnkiss]

65) police
66) being mistaken for "BMX bandits" in the City, while riding your dual MTB ?
go figure? 20" or 26" there is a bit of a difference

[crozza]

[quote="Fatman"]28) "You could get a motor bike for that price mate" yeh thanks dickhead
i hate it when people say that IF I WANTED A FARKIN MOTOR BIKE I WOULD OF BOUGHT ONE!! :x

[Hiney]

68| stacking in front of a huge crowd at a race and everyone goes "are u alrite man"........no asswipes, i do this for comedy relief

6 :o ) wishing I'd kept up with the mountain biking thang from the early part of the nineties back when toes clips were fashionable but being successfully lured by the "dark side", during the better part of the nineties, into a world of sex and drugs and rap'n'soul.......then being re-lured back to mountainbiking in the very late nineties only to find bikes had gone up in price 10 fold......farkin doh!

70) wishing i wasn't teetering on the verge of 31 y.o.

71) young punks who treat u like u r their long lost friend when they're riding on their own but 'show out' like the tweakers when they're rollin with their crew

72) the overbearing obsession that mountain biking has over my soul

73) all other related emotional issues to do with the above...... :roll:

[bazza]

74) not being able to remove bolts/nuts/screws or parts.

75) how the bike rusts up if you dont relube it straight away after having just cleaned up after a veryyy muddy run

76) people that put in too many rock gardens

77) crashing on rock gardens

78) damaging vital organs

79) concusions

80) farked knees

81 ) farked neck

[josh]

82) CKC's

[Gutty]

83) not being able to ride.

[schwing]

84) bending seat posts and rails with my ass.

85)feet coming of pedals when landing.

86) scratch marks on my shins and calves exactly like the ones I'd like on my back.

[RaID]

87) Deraillure Hangers and Deraillure Induced Problems Full Stop

88 ) Shimano trying to be Microsoft, with their new Saint Range

[bikeman_baldrik]

89) "where's the engine??" man i hate that
90) not having money to get the bike up and running.
91) having a set of XT disc brakes sitting on your bedroom floor becaus e you havent tgot the rest of the bits to build your bike up

[Scott]

92) mountain bikers that cant count :)
i've had to edit soo many posts now to get the numbers going up in the right order..

[Ty]

82) CKC's

2nd that.

and

93) sandbaggers

[ona rampage]

94) Rent-a-cops

[toodles]

82) CKC's

2nd that.

and

93) sandbaggers

Whats a CKC?

and

95) getting your bike off the transport and finding it broken

[timmo]

96) "Captain" crashes - going down with the bike - when you first get clipless pedals

97) Early morning rides after "a few quiet beers" the night before

[Grip]

99) Knowing that the very next words to come out your mouth are most likely going to be "Fark, that hurt"

Oh and Mason, mate... that is one scary mother of an avatar!

[j5ive]

100) Rear Deraileur hanger alignment (A GOOD FINAL NOTE)
101) Cable stretch
102) Chain wear
103) Chain suck
104) Loose headsets
105) Warped rotors
106) Anodised anything!

[Dirt Devil]

107. Smacking your nads on the seat and spending the next 5 minutes doubled over on the ground.

[Brad]

108) Bush walkers and council members destroying our track!!! :x

[jayboy882003]

109) people who say "come on just do it".
"why dont you do it ya frinken hardcore"
"coz i;m shit"
"yeah well shut the fuk up and stop telling people what to do and u cant even do the smallest jump here"

[chandler_mate]

110) bastards that booby trap trails
111) people in the street that over react when they notice that a bike is coming slightly in their direction, you ride past and they scream and jump into a telephone booth like a meteor the size of the moon is about to hit the earth and destroy all life forms
112) posers

[curtisrider]

110) bastards that booby trap trails
111) people in the street that over react when they notice that a bike is coming slightly in their direction, you ride past and they scream and jump into a telephone booth like a meteor the size of the moon is about to hit the earth and destroy all life forms112) posers

i hate that. soooo much :twisted:

113)People who have a steriotypicical image of mtb'rs
114)not having enough money to ix things
115)councils

[curtisrider]

116)bikers in general who wreck your trails and dont even bother to fix them. :twisted:

[j-ro]

117) Crashes.
118) Paying for crash damage.
119) People who laugh at you when u tell them your dream is to be a pro-mountainbiker.
120)knee/shin pads cramming behind your knee.
121) creaky cranks/headset.
122) scratching the fuck outta ya pride n joy just doing what its meant for.
123) drops to flat
124) people who wash out and cry.
125) Pro's who you idolise who when you meet them just ignore you.
126) the MotorX dad whos been there b4 and done it all b4. Live you own life u fuck.
127) dweeby dads who never wanna come watch their kid.
128) the ability to huck yourself off a cliff, launch over a gap and balence on a tiny plank but yet still be terrorfied to ride on slippery rocks.
129) people on shitty bikes who pass judgement on your $11K+ rig.
130) people who laugh at your for saving for years to buy a pushbike.
131) using a mtbwesite as an anger vent.
132) NS bridges breaking under you
133) building bridges.
134) losing the dustcaps for your innertubes. no biggy just sucks.

[j-ro]

135) whingers.

[keldave1]

136) PRO's who bag out people that they beleive are not up to their standards, then whinge about too much pedaling. (go and buy a moto!!!!) :shock: :twisted:

137)slow tight BORING single tracks 40km/h and under

[down hill pervet]

138) onlooking kid who demand for you to "DO A BACKFLIP"

[Ryan]

139) People who equate being able to throw a bunch of limbs off in the air with being a good jumper.
140) People who whinge about the quality of local races / racecourses but never turn up to build or offer to help with the organisation.

[ANDY_2430]

141)comin home to ur trails and finding them fuked, not knowing who wrecked em

[grovesy]

People that spend more time looking at a screen than riding.

[juzza]

62) trail dstruction crews

[jayboy882003]

( ) people who think that they are better than you!

[Fritta]

accidentally slaging infront of you instead of sideways and getting all the slag in your face.
sorry :lol: couldnt resist.

[jayboy882003]

) having to take a shitta when your riding ! (especially when there's no toilet) :)

[jayboy882003]

) having to take a shitta when your riding ! (especially when there's no toilet) :)

[fastrider gus]

147) barneys... (good bike.. cant ride for balls)

[fastrider gus]

148) little kids that infest forums with their dribble... *AHEAM!!!* ^^^^

[curtisrider]

dribble?

[fastrider gus]

yes.... dribble..

[Grip]

D_I_C_T_I_O_N_A_R_Y... big book... lotsa words... not much plot though.

Or if still unsure check a mirror.. "dribble" is the stuff coming out the corners of your mouth.

[fastrider gus]

aaw c'mon!!! other people say that! you just like teasing me dont you.... i mean.. filling the forum up with CRAP! like I do.. lol

[curtisrider]

wat i meant was define dribble

[jayboy882003]

its funny how there's so many more posts in "101 things we hate about MTB" then there is in "101 things we love about MTB"!!

[Adi]

Pitty a few people turned this uber-cool thread into sh!t.

*AHEM*

I guess it's safe to say that there are around 143 things we do not fancy about MTB. But hey, these things are part of the sport and part of the overall experience.

Cheers. ;)

[dazonic]

i can only think of one..
149) MTBers that make mountain biking seem less cool. Like people cuttin' sad at someone on forums for not knowing something, or MTBers too caught up in the image thing and how cool they are in their 'daddy paid for it' D2

[Gonzo]

150) horseriders who let their horses shit all over the trail, but you don't see it till it's too late and then your wheels spit it all over you and you smell foul after it and then you make your car smell and your girlfriend then dumps you cos she thinks you smell like horse shit and you get really depressed cos you lost your GF so your boss fires you for not being happy enough at work then you have to sell your bike to pay for food all cos of a stupid horse.

[bmxbandit]

150) horseriders who let their horses shit all over the trail, but you don't see it till it's too late and then your wheels spit it all over you and you smell foul after it and then you make your car smell and your girlfriend then dumps you cos she thinks you smell like horse shit and you get really depressed cos you lost your GF so your boss fires you for not being happy enough at work then you have to sell your bike to pay for food all cos of a stupid horse.

whoa dude, ummm..... a shrink perhaps???

[Simo]

151) pinch flats

[goon]

152) people who ask why u didnt buy a motor bike so u can go back up the hills

[curtisrider]

150) horseriders who let their horses shit all over the trail, but you don't see it till it's too late and then your wheels spit it all over you and you smell foul after it and then you make your car smell and your girlfriend then dumps you cos she thinks you smell like horse shit and you get really depressed cos you lost your GF so your boss fires you for not being happy enough at work then you have to sell your bike to pay for food all cos of a stupid horse.

whoa dude, ummm..... a shrink perhaps???

that would be a good idea

150) horseriders who let their horses shit all over the trail, but you don't see it till it's too late and then your wheels spit it all over you and you smell foul after it and then you make your car smell and your girlfriend then dumps you cos she thinks you smell like horse shit and you get really depressed cos you lost your GF so your boss fires you for not being happy enough at work then you have to sell your bike to pay for food all cos of a stupid horse.

whoa dude, ummm..... a shrink perhaps???

that would be a good idea

lol yes maybe

[dickyknee]

153 going down local jumps and after building up nice frame with some good gear and opting for cable discs , and some young guy says to me "why didn't you get hydro, cables suck " he was riding a rusty ,crappy bmx with no brakes at all .

[Misplaced]

154: The fact that when you pull a huge one or nail a trick/drop/jump no one is there, but when you stack coming off something as simple as a kerb, everyones watching!!

[Avanti_Racing]

155:cranks getting jammed not allownig you to pedal for the rest of that race and u have 2 roll it, ME

[Kram]

156)http://www.farkin.net/forums/album_pic.php?pic_id=1128

[Anarki]

156)http://www.farkin.net/forums/album_pic.php?pic_id=1128


Dude! Not cool. Kinda funny nontheless. ;)

157) Sprocket ankle/shin/leg in general. (ie. when/if your foot slips rather badly off your pedal, often in the middle of a powerful pedal stroke, driving your ankle/shin/leg in general right onto your sprocket. Ouch.)

Last time I did the above was ~5 months ago, and my foot still goes all 'pins-n-needlesy' when I touch the scars.

[trobb]

47) the annoying physics which mean I push for 25 minutes to do a run that lasts for 2 and a half.

48} being told I could have bought a moto

49) trail access issues

50) riding through dog poo

lol

[trobb]

135) whingers.

lol, gus

[juzza]

158) WASN'T THIS MEANT TO BE 101 THINGS WE HATE???

[Anarki]

158) WASN'T THIS MEANT TO BE 101 THINGS WE HATE???

Quick! Someone put an extra zero in there ;)

159) Little kids rolling wikked lips on djs

[oof]

158) WASN'T THIS MEANT TO BE 101 THINGS WE HATE???

yeah thats what i thought.....maybe mtb is just such a bad sport and everyone should give up now?
oh yeah...
160} broken bones suck=no riding for 4 months :(

[Ryan]

1000) People who dig up 4 year old threads to make a bullshit, pointless addition to them.