atallen223

We all love the feeling of mountain biking. Some prefer flowy singletrack and others prefer downhill. What are some of your guys' biggest annoyances before during or after riding?

Hydraulic

My annoyance is at the beginning of a ride. During the first 8 miles my legs will burn/ache, but after that I guess their "warmed up", and sadly I'm usually done at 15 miles.

Daspydyr 

Yeah, getting warmed up is a pain. Uncontrolled dogs on a trail, trash in general, people with no regard for wilderness areas. That probably hacks me more than anything.

liquefied

Other people.

allroy71

Insects that follow you, overgrown weeds with thorns, goatheads, being too hot/too cold, snakes, possible mountains lions, people that wear earphones without any regard to other trail users....
Is that enough?

samburger

******s, in every sense of the word. The trail is no place for a ******, neither literally nor figuratively.

Really? No feminine hygiene talk allowed on the forum? Well I guess that just proves my point...

LesterOfPuppets

Not being within 5 miles of trails anymore.

crazyotte

No toilet paper

rnorris

-Encountering people's trash on public lands.

-Encountering someone's aggressive dog (again on public property)

-Stupid target shooters who don't think about the safety of others

scrublover

People who complain all the time.

lubes17319

When the ride is done & I have to go back to 'the real world'.

dminor 

electrik

People who hate mountain bikers or in general any misanthropic sierra club wanker we all have to deal with while enjoying the woods.

commo_soulja

During: riding on singletrack in the woods. Start to smell the tell-tale signs of either cologne or perfume. Further up the trail, catch up to the offending rider(s). It's the F'n woods for dogs sake, not the F'n club!

Glynis27

Trash
Removed features
Trail damage

These things bug me extra bad cause I know I'm one of the ones who has to come back and fix it all. During the summer I usually only get to ride one day a week and when I see this stuff I'm stuck fixing it instead of riding. That means I don't get to ride that week.

YamiRider1316

People who have 300+ dollars worth of spandex on and dont have a clue how to ride. Seriously people they make riding clothes that aren't spandex. Oblivious hikers who wont get off the trail. Dog poo.

justin.

LOL. I experienced this for the first time a week ago. I was like "WTF is that smell"? 50 feet ahead she was "hiking" and didn't really want to move over (take one step off trail) to allow me to pass. Arg!

pablosnazzy

all the people who turn riding a bicycle into a competitive and stuck up fashion event. compared to the majority of the people i talk to, i am not a mountain biker, because i don't talk like one, dress like one, or act like one (whatever that means). acting all bad ass, telling us how awesome they are and how hard they ride, and it doesn't occur to them that we sort of know what we are doing, we live here.

what annoys me more is myself. i suck and i wish i was stronger, faster, better.

crazyotte

I went on a group ride the other day, and there were a few guys (spandexed out) who didnt smile the whole ride. I kept wondering WHY were they out there?? I was in a sleeveless shirt and athletic shorts jokin with everyone at the catchup points, when they eventually rode up, they actually looked upset..

twobadfish

Is it true that most mountain bikers smoke pot? Because if so I was considering joining a club.

Vicelord

People who don't understand the "downhill yields to uphill" rule. I can't tell you how many times I've been working my butt off on a climb and some ass hole comes roaring down the hill with the seeming intention of proceeding right over me if I don't jump out of the way. It's especially crappy when I have to dismount the bike, and then walk up the rest of the hill because it's too steep to re-mount.

and people who don't understand how to put their dogs on a leash. Really? you're that inconsiderate?

Vicelord

This is wrong. You're oblivious if you think you have the right of way over hikers.

Bikes yield to hikers yield to horses. Always. People like YOU annoy me. If you are on a multi-use trail and want to pass a hiker, find our way around them. I do.

YamiRider1316

LOl ur probably one of those ******s who rocks spandex like hes a gold medal champion. Its not like im plowing through hikers but when im climbing a hill and i give them the polite "on your left" or some heads up and they just turn around and look at you like yeah right that is what annoys me. I dont know how it is on the trails you ride but around here hikers yield to bikers.

Vicelord

no actually, I am one of those ****ers who rides 5 miles to the trail, gets his baggies dirty while changing parts on friends broken bikes, and rides with courtesy to other riders and hikers on his way back to the bar to have a post-ride beer before going home.

Bottom line is they don't have to allow you to pass if they don't want to. It would be extremely discourteous if they didn't, but they don't have to.

liquefied

Why do you care what other people wear? I wear the spandex stuff because it keeps me cool and dry when I do XC. So what if I'm not racing, I don't like being a soggy mess in regular clothes. The secret is that we're not wearing the stuff to impress you.