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[Airmail109]

Just been away to the university mtb champs. about 400-500 students in a field in Scotland from Thursday to Sunday. I'd forgotten how much I love the scene. It's not like the surfing/climbing scene etc at all. Very little boasting and posing, any boasting is done by riding the downhill run fast. Us downhillers are a bunch of slightly psycho pikeys who can't afford motorcross but thats what make's it fun.

No one took any of it seriously, if it had been a climbing event there would have been a LOT of BS.

Instead I had 4 days of

* exploding bonfires
* harassing the few women there
* gay/your mum jokes
* nutters doing a massive gap jump in the dark
* LOTS of booze
* inter-university rivalry, mainly us abusing the Loughbrough crowd
* mooning
* heckling each other riding at every opportunity which mainly consisted of "DOOO A WHEEELIE or DOOO A BACKFLIP!!!"
* doing the downhill run intoxicated
* stealing each others bikes
* breaking each others bikes
* general smack talk to do with riding ability
* Loud stupid offensive music
* Offensive just about everything

Massively good times! All other sports suck arse heheh!

[joeap]

Awesome, nothing like doing crazy wild s*** in natural surroudings to put you in a good mood eh? Looking forward to the spring when I can start some mountain hiking and the like.

[GIAP.Shura]

No posing huh?

[ploughman]

The strife's away so, despite having already been here over 2 years, and having walked the route dozens of time, I decided to take the bike and the spaniel up the Climachx trail for the first time (it's on the mountain behind the village). Well fek me if it wasn't a total bone jarring riot. Haven't had that much fun in ages. I think I'll do it again tomorrow, once I've put the bike back together.

[Choctaw111]

I haven't ridden my mountain bikes in several years for a number of reasons.
I miss it and often think of getting back on it.