[Fathead]

I ride alone 90% of the time. I spend weekends w/my family, and ride trail on my Fridays off. I'm in crappy shape and I ride to keep it from getting crappier, to get that awesome buzz, and to conquer parts of the trail that kicked my butt last time.

Since my first real mountain bike ride, I've found that I do a lot of yelling on the trail. "Come on!" when I'm trying to get one more pedal-stroke up to the top of a steep rise, "Yah!" when I make it, "B!%ch" at that big root that stops on the way up, "Woohoo" (think Homer on crystal meth) going down the steep stuff.

I know the disc golfers nearby hear me, but I know they don't care either. I'm pretty sure I've yelled when riding with other people, but they never say anything about it (to my face).

So, do you yell at yourself (or nobody) when you're riding? When? What?

 

[bpatterson6]

I ride alone 90% of the time. I spend weekends w/my family, and ride trail on my Fridays off. I'm in crappy shape and I ride to keep it from getting crappier, to get that awesome buzz, and to conquer parts of the trail that kicked my butt last time.

Since my first real mountain bike ride, I've found that I do a lot of yelling on the trail. "Come on!" when I'm trying to get one more pedal-stroke up to the top of a steep rise, "Yah!" when I make it, "B!%ch" at that big root that stops on the way up, "Woohoo" (think Homer on crystal meth) going down the steep stuff.

I know the disc golfers nearby hear me, but I know they don't care either. I'm pretty sure I've yelled when riding with other people, but they never say anything about it (to my face).

So, do you yell at yourself (or nobody) when you're riding? When? What?

When I kick a stunt's azz or an obsticle or something that I have had a bit of trouble stomping in the past. I get excited, So i gotta yell.

 

[rvlacich]

No?
I only yell to let people know I'm coming uphill around a blind corner, or when I'm riding uphill on a 6" wide path through a cornfield.

 

[TreeSaw]

Yupper! Ask just about anyone that I have ever ridden with. I yell at myself, the bike, the terrain...it's all good.

 

[chicodude]

i Yell more when im riding my road bike, and it gets real painful, i justta gotta yell something.


Its fun when you riding up the lifts at n* to listen to the guys going down the runs

 

[laura]

yes, all the time. i yell "come on" a lot, at my bike, at my legs, and my pysche. whatever is keeping me down. its like the louder i yell, better it goes. sometimes when the ride is going really bad i cuss. i try to keep all that to a minimum because rarely do i ride alone.

 

[Lexx D]

Yeah i'm known to hoot and holla as i come down the mountain. If I'm trying to go really fast i talk to myself to keep pumped and rail turns.

 

[BuddhaRoadkill]

So, do you yell at yourself (or nobody) when you're riding? When? What?

Haha, glad to know I'm not the only one who does that - only on really tough climbs though. I'm my own drill sgt.
"Get your ass up that hill private, move it!!"

Of course, lot's of expletives usually accompany said motivational abuse.

 

[JRB]

I do yell and talk, but general consensus here would think I am weird.

 

[chicodude]

I do yell and talk, but general consensus here would think I am weird.

Yea, but you live in texas, everyone is a little odd there.........

 

[Skookum]

Mostly i just think it but occasionally the words come blurting out....

but i'll yell from time to time when i'm screamin down the trail. As time goes by you get faster and faster, so you can say whatever the hell you want since you dust everyone anyways.

 

[GiantRider]

Yep i yell at myself my bike talk to the trees ,whatever if im alone.But when im with the group its mostly talking with others.

 

[Toshi]

on long climbs i'll try to mentally replay/whistle under my breath entire pieces of music. ya know it's a long climb when you make it through a movement or three of a symphony...

when dhing i'll scream every once in a while when something particularly fun is conquered

 

[Fathead]

on long climbs i'll try to mentally replay/whistle under my breath entire pieces of music. ya know it's a long climb when you make it through a movement or three of a symphony...

when dhing i'll scream every once in a while when something particularly fun is conquered

Now, THAT's different! I couldn't finish a movement of any major work on a single ride. . . I would get too distracted by obstacles, uphills, crashes, etc.

If I ever made it to the 3rd movement of the average symphony it would be especially bad. 3rd movements almost always put me to sleep. Since "just past the halfway point" is usually my slowest part of a ride, I would prolly just slow to a complete stop and slip into a deep sleep.

I forgot one of my favorites: "dipsh!t" for when I grip-check a tree.

 

[LordOpie]

I used to yell at myself, but it really sounds like bedroom talk, so I stopped out of fear of getting arrested.

 

[Salami]

Once I was struggling up a steep climb on my Bullit and yelled at it "Get your fat ass up the hill, Bitch!"