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Whats your style of riding?

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blunts
Posts: 295 - Karma: 9

My preference of riding is park and street. although we get kicked out of most the good street spots, i still enjoy it.

Jul 15 2008 12:09AM
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SKIDUBAIGUY
Posts: 3018 - Karma: 8
Street, but i get out to the mountains maybe twice a year where we just huck stuff.
Jul 15 2008 2:27AM
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k-rob
Posts: 14217 - Karma: 2,891
extreme freeride, i got into it back in 2003 and now i'm sponsored by sun ringle sun rims. i like the rush of adrenaline you get from flying down trails with 13-foot gaps and 10-foot drops, knowing if you slip you could seriously injure yourself. i bought a sixsixone pro pressure suit last year, have crashed a couple of times in full armour and walked away without a scratch, but i still get the rush. it's all about flow (=
Jul 15 2008 4:33AM
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wintersway
Posts: 5115 - Karma: 128
xc
i love to get the reward after a long hill, and nice smooth single track is amazing

cant really do big drops with a hardtail... eventually ill move up to a full suspension, but i dont have the money for it
Jul 15 2008 7:44AM
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brenker
Posts: 3188 - Karma: 71
i started off riding XC 3 years ago and stuck with it...although before that i used to ride around town on my shitty hardtail with my friends and hop stairsets and get fucked up
Jul 15 2008 7:56AM
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bsmith01
Posts: 1639 - Karma: 43
Just started this year with XC and am loving it.  Yeah its some hard work but still super fun and very rewarding.  I want to get into DH but I live in oiho and am not too sure if my bike could handle much.  There is like a 200ft vertical DH trail from my house I have been wanting to try so I might do that soon. 
Jul 15 2008 9:23AM
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chapz
Posts: 10182 - Karma: 66
dirt jumping and street...

montreal actually has some nice jumping trails... my friends and i build a lot
Jul 15 2008 9:56AM
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blunts
Posts: 295 - Karma: 9
sick i went to montreael last year and road the big o, the stadium and downtown abit. it was pretty dope
Jul 15 2008 3:06PM
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tBatt
Posts: 9632 - Karma: 580
i mostly do street and dj, sometimes ill rise some singletrack kinda stuff
Jul 16 2008 1:50AM
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mariob
Posts: 1036 - Karma: 36
same thats all there is around my house single track and hills.
Jul 16 2008 1:13PM
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tBatt
Posts: 9632 - Karma: 580
wait, mario..
you bike?!
Jul 16 2008 6:12PM
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chapz
Posts: 10182 - Karma: 66
yeah the big o is riding heaven.
Jul 16 2008 9:30PM
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blunts
Posts: 295 - Karma: 9

are they tearin it down, because when i was there there was construction all around it but we still rode it. then my buddy said they were takin it down

Jul 16 2008 11:54PM
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fezz
Posts: 542 - Karma: 28
street and what ever djs i can find (i live in new brunswick so not very many)
Jul 17 2008 9:46PM
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D-TIZLE
Posts: 54 - Karma: 10
street and trails i always blow up my back tire when i do drops probably because its a hard tail i might get a specialized epic or stump jumper next year
Jul 18 2008 5:46PM
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Aenigma
Posts: 11256 - Karma: 424
I used to just do AM/XC riding, but this last year I got a DH bike and have been doing that 90% of the time so far this year.  I also started racing DH, which has been super fun so far.  I've been thinking about getting into DJ too, but money may keep that from happening.
Jul 20 2008 10:32PM
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sneaky_pete
Posts: 543 - Karma: 47
same here. there's nothing better than a fast and flowy single track
Jul 22 2008 5:16PM
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brenker
Posts: 3188 - Karma: 71
word
Jul 22 2008 5:19PM
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angus_k_
Posts: 438 - Karma: 24
i do a ton of north shore freeriding, as well as quite a bit of XC Epics. I used to dj but they tore down the jumps closest to my house for ultimate fields :(
and I BMX some
Jul 22 2008 8:16PM
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j.saaaarela
Posts: 1859 - Karma: 856
Im a downhiller, but i sometimes dirt jump... I use an 07 Kona Coiler, its pretty good for both.
Jul 22 2008 9:36PM
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JTL
Posts: 2275 - Karma: 338
i really like freeride. i am looking to buy a marin quake 7.2..for 800$
Jul 22 2008 9:45PM
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Tanner-D
Posts: 2061 - Karma: 4,116

same here

but i also ride dirt jumps

Jul 23 2008 2:36AM
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Pipe_Munky
Posts: 10888 - Karma: 2,184
DH race with a little XC mixed in there. hopefully getting into road riding this summer
Jul 23 2008 9:21AM
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sneaky_pete
Posts: 543 - Karma: 47
ive been racing XC for most of the summer, this is my first year at it.
Jul 25 2008 9:13AM
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onearmwanderer
Posts: 1153 - Karma: 31
mostly just XC.  want to try some downhill next year though seems pretty fun
Jul 31 2008 1:36PM
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Beefcake
Posts: 378 - Karma: 10
lot of XC cause i live with it in my backyard. anyone ever visited Peavine Mt. in Reno NV? that is where i be at.
Jul 31 2008 1:49PM
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SkierX
Posts: 16253 - Karma: 538
XC/AM. Would love to try DH but I really don't think my bank account would agree.
Aug 10 2008 6:38AM
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gordie.
Posts: 2014 - Karma: 84
DH and AM
Aug 10 2008 8:10PM
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YooperSteeze
Posts: 1248 - Karma: 45
Pretty much everything, XC, small DJ and street, some downhill, a bit of freeride.
Oct 23 2009 4:34PM
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noparking
Posts: 1123 - Karma: 50
DH and FR
Oct 23 2009 5:47PM
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Mr.Penguin
Posts: 207 - Karma: 165
free ride

I like nice flowing trails with turns jumps and drops wooden ladders and bridges and all that.
Mar 10 2010 4:36PM
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b-kul
Posts: 4350 - Karma: 1,111
agresisve xc. more down than up, went for my first ride of 2010 today but only got like 30 minutes in before i got bad vertigo. i bummed, this better be a one time thing.
Mar 10 2010 5:07PM
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SkierX
Posts: 16253 - Karma: 538
Nice. I've been itching, but the ground is definitely still too soft in the valleys here.

First ride back is always interesting. Power is there from skiing, but endurance is nowhere to be found.
Mar 11 2010 3:29PM
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Pinguu
Posts: 1581 - Karma: 49
I would say I'm aggressive XC as well. But I just started riding so I do everything really lame. I want to try some drops, urban, and dj's this summer.
Mar 11 2010 9:11PM
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YooperSteeze
Posts: 1248 - Karma: 45
Same thing here. I started building some dirt jumps near my house this fall, but the ground froze before i could get much done. I dunno if you know the trails around Marquette very well, but i can show you some really fun trails
Mar 11 2010 9:30PM
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Pinguu
Posts: 1581 - Karma: 49
Well I've ridden the south trails, and I ride up by the north country trail along the dead river. Anything other than that, I've never seen it. So yea man, hit me up after the snow is gone.
Mar 12 2010 10:49AM
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