The passing of other riders was mentioned awhile back.

I'm like to ride road and a mountain bike, when I pass a slow moving bike on the road, I usually just swing out and back in front of them. I usually throw out a wave. Its a bad idea to blow by someone and say a greeting at the same time, not very safe.

I ride a 5 inch full suspension bike on the forest and one guy I ride with is about 25 years older then me. He rides hardtail with a 60mm fork and rides both up and down every trail we try. He pretty much kicks my butt at it.

I find it funny that mountain biking has offically split up into so many different disciplines that there is infighting. Back when I first started there was just mountain bikers, and mountain bikers have always been pretty much at the bottom of the barrel of trail use.

I think there is kind of a dual jealousy between the FR crowd and the XC crowd. Most XC riders would like to be able to pull of the stuff that FR do and FR wish they didn't always have to push their bikes up hill and stop to catch their breath.