[macmx]

We are all riders. We can agree on that.
But people seem to want to belong to different riding niches. I am a downhiller. I am a street rider. I am a freerider etc.

But what is freeriding? It can be anything from an XC rider who enjoys the ride down, to a hucker who just jumps of cliffs and buildings.

But when it comes down to it - we all do a little of everything. Most of us have more than one bike, and do more than one type of riding. Most of us enjoy all kinds of riding. Very few people devote themselves to one type, thus the different riding-descriptions are meaningless to most riders.

I, for one, devote myself to having fun on my bike. Any riding that is fun is good. it can be anything from big jumps, fast downhills to sliding the back end out and popping wheelies. Therefor I have come up with the term "Playriding". Playriding is everything you can think of. Anything that is fun. When using this term and thinking about it, biking actually seems even more fun. "I am going to go playride!". Can you feel the smile rising from your stomach all the way up to you lips?

I have come to realize, that I don't need to belong to a certain group of riders. I don't belong in any of those.

I am a playrider. I invite everyone to come join the club.

 

[kidwoo]

Can I bring pixies and unicorns? C'mon guys........group hug.........who's with me?

 

[Kornphlake]

I only do black diamond, black diamond is way cooler than playriding, it's almost equivalent to erbon assult and slightly above freeriding. You need to send that to MBA so we can have another stupid name for the same old thing.

 

[buildyourown]

That sounds like what we call skiboardin'. Refering to anything fun done on the side of a mountain in the snow.

 

[binary visions]

Hmm.. Nobody has figured out that giving it a specific name is still categorizing and will eventually grow to need a rigid definition by the anal retentive masses.

How about just saying, "I'm going riding"? That brings a big smile to my face..

kidwoo.. You're a cynical bastard

 

[macmx]

I was just trying to make a point but I guess no one understood it.

 

[binary visions]

I was just trying to make a point but I guess no one understood it.

I understood it, I just chose to be a smartass

 

[macmx]

Good thing.

PS: I am not trying to imply that you should actually use the term in daily speech.

 

[kidwoo]

Sort of a collective consciousness thing then..........

The playriders secret handshake.............

The ride that dare not speak it's name..................


Actually I'm a peerider. I try to leave the longest stream in the dirt while I'm flying overhead in the air.

 

[BigHitExpert]

sorry playriding sounds too ghey and childish... no sale

 

[mcA896]

We are all riders. We can agree on that.
But people seem to want to belong to different riding niches. I am a downhiller. I am a street rider. I am a freerider etc.

But what is freeriding? It can be anything from an XC rider who enjoys the ride down, to a hucker who just jumps of cliffs and buildings.

But when it comes down to it - we all do a little of everything. Most of us have more than one bike, and do more than one type of riding. Most of us enjoy all kinds of riding. Very few people devote themselves to one type, thus the different riding-descriptions are meaningless to most riders.

I, for one, devote myself to having fun on my bike. Any riding that is fun is good. it can be anything from big jumps, fast downhills to sliding the back end out and popping wheelies. Therefor I have come up with the term "Playriding". Playriding is everything you can think of. Anything that is fun. When using this term and thinking about it, biking actually seems even more fun. "I am going to go playride!". Can you feel the smile rising from your stomach all the way up to you lips?

I have come to realize, that I don't need to belong to a certain group of riders. I don't belong in any of those.

I am a playrider. I invite everyone to come join the club.

have you just read the most recent "grimy handshake" in bike magazine?

(payriding)

edit: i agree with you on the playriding thing and i guess i could be called a playrider

 

[Prechrysler]

How about just saying, "I'm going riding"? That brings a big smile to my face..

Then you would be calling it Imgoingriding..riding. How 'bout we call it, "

.". There problem solved.

 

[OGRipper]

Once again I agree with Binary.

I agree that attempts to categorize are pretty stupid. But your solution is to create another (broad) category. How does that help?

Just call it riding. Or better yet, don't call it anything, just go do it and let others worry about what to call it.

 

[lovebunny]

hmm "playride" magazine

 

[Dartman]

I am a playrider. I invite everyone to come join the club.

Here's your club T-shirt.

Mike

 

[Damn True]

I like going for bike rides.

 

[Freddy]

Hmm....the term playriding sounds kinda pimp.....

"Hey baby, wanna go playride with me"

 

[jncarpenter]

....how about a free-huck'n Jib-scoot'r ????

 

[manhattanprjkt83]

this thread is ghey

 

[tmx]

yo! get that emoticon outta here.

 

[manhattanprjkt83]

yo! get that emoticon outta here.

you talking to me? :mumble:

 

[Shortbus]

you talking to me? :mumble:

You best nice to TMX or yer gonna haf to deal wif me.

 

[Shortbus]

hey Marcus I think Cannondale trademarked Playriding, didn't they?

 

[buildyourown]

If you spell gay, "ghey", does that make it not offensive?

 

[macmx]

People in bike forums dissapoint me once again. I can see this thread, and possibly my playriding theori was a dud. Let's finish it off.

Now you can all go back to your favorite threads like "Benders new bike" and "How high can you drop?"...

Later skater...

 

[macmx]

PS: I can see that my beginning text, which was written at 2 am, didn't come out the way I wanted. I, with my halfwitt Danish brain, wrote some misleading things that weren't supossed to be there. Too late to change that now.

Still - just go have fun.

 

[kidwoo]

People in bike forums dissapoint me once again. I can see this thread, and possibly my playriding theori was a dud. Let's finish it off.

Now you can all go back to your favorite threads like "Benders new bike" and "How high can you drop?"...

Later skater...

Sorry we didn't live up to your expectations. You didn't live up to some of ours by being able to take some ribbing and have a sense of humor. Don't take it so personally. Nobody dislikes you or anything.

 

[macmx]

I didn't think that either. It's just hard trying to get a serious thread started were you actually want to disguss something.

But it was probably naive of me to think I could disguss such a thing on a biking forum. That fault lies completely with me.

It's fine poking fun at people. I have done it to many people as well, and I haven't been offended by your replys, nor will you find me writing that I think your stupid. In fact, I actually laughed out loud when I read the first couple of replies (which I think have been deleted now? ). I could see how one could easily make my thread look completely stupid. Which was fun. Self-irony is normally fun.

My intentions were actually to hear different peoples view of riding, and how they portray themselves as riders.

 

[kidwoo]

I'm still holding on to my self imposed classification as the stankiest peerider ever. What fun is riding if you can't just let yourself go?

 

[macmx]

What fun is riding if you can't just let yourself go?

Hahahahahah! :dancing:

 

[Shortbus]

I think it's the whole loose attitude of hte original "freeriding" movement that attracted me the most of anything. When people started doing stupid crap on their bikes without wearing lycra and having a sub-20 pound bikes. The fact that it kinda took a different turn from the "norm" back then (lycra and sub20pounders), and no one gave a rats behinds and just did what they thought was cool and fun on the bike THEY thought was appropriate for THEM (not for other's opinions) and didn't worry about who can climb the longest hill in the least amount of time and who's thighs had the largest circumference.

Today, I dunno, things have kinda changed but you still find some real cool people every once in a while. Only once in a while though. I myself still ride to let anger out. Beats letting that anger out on the highway that's for sure.

I guess i'm an angry-rider then Although i'm usually happy when i ride.

There i tried to be somewhat serious

 

[binary visions]

I'm still holding on to my self imposed classification as the stankiest peerider ever.

I think we need to see some photographic evidence before you can go claiming that title. Otherwise, how are we to know that you're not simply a poorider posing as a peerider?

 

[kidwoo]

I think we need to see some photographic evidence before you can go claiming that title. Otherwise, how are we to know that you're not simply a poorider posing as a peerider?

As a poorider, I quickly hit the ceiling with current textile restaints. (see pic)

Peeriding on the otherhand is so fresh and new within my repertoire, photographic technology has yet to evolve to the point where it is capable of recording the spectacular aura of my true flowiness.