what does surfing have to do with best DH riding? And it seems like the west coasters are much more closed minded about their trails and such.
East coast or West, best riding.
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yeah thats what it sounds like. i know that most new englanders enjoy riding almost anywhere because of the diversity in trails but it seems that the west coasters need to have the trails be exactly like the trails they always ride for them to be content.motomike said:
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East coast is where its at my friend. Come ride some of our gnar techness (if you can handle it) and you will see what its all about over here. Being able to drive less than 4 hours to over a dozen different lift access hills that are filled with steep chutes, tech rock gardens, and pure new england mud. I love it over here, but its just too bad its only seasonal....
People on the east coast seem to forget that it rains A LOT here in the winter. Right now there are floods in norcal, and it's rainy in socal too. We have tons of variety in our trails, ranging from technical all rock trails to smooth singletract in the pacific northwest. For technical, don't forget about Colorado or Idaho. It's cool because in the summer it's dry and in the winter it's wet so we can ride our trails in 2 different conditions. We also have way better skiing and snowboarding. You can't even try to argue that one. Granted, there are more lifts in the east but it's just better out here in general. People are laid back and there are lots of cool towns. Our cars don't rust, we don't really have to worry about snow, and we can ride all year long. So there. :eviltongu
I have yet to make it to Idaho or Utah but Colorado is really lacking anything technical.Bicyclist said:
Both coasts have developed their trails differently. The west started on fireroads and started to make them technical and then branching off the roads into the woods. Most the places out here that I have ridden have a strong sub structure of fireroads that other trails split off of. The single track carries the same speed and flow of the fireroads.
The east coast made a majority of trails from scratch. Riders started taking the technical singletrack XC trails and building them on hills. The trails have a very tight feel. Handlebars just missing trees at the sametime you are trying to negotiate a rock garden.
The two coasts just have different styles of trail building.
In an earlier post someone said they have never heard an east coast rider complain about the west, yet they have heard west coast riders complain about the east. What was the complaint? It would not surprise me if they said the trails were slow and to tight to really ride. They did not have much "flow".
I thought the same thing. However while Telluride's race course isn't that tech, that mountain has some steep-a$$ tech trails built by the locals. They have a freeride feel and wouldn't race well.DHCorky said:
haha cali/west coast has such a big varity of trails, and we ride them all...like someone said before just cali is bigger then most of new england.gnurider1080 said:
not true the east coast suck...hahaahdhbuilder said:
Just look at the poll we're wining
hahah its probably true.....but we're still better and im not thattttt slowdhbuilder said:
People keep telling me there are good trails on Cape Cod (where I grew up) now, but I'll believe it when I see it. Besides there's no freaking Lyme disease or horrifying proliferation of deer ticks. That alone tips my hand to the west side, and then there's the year round riding, and all the other aspects I posted earlier.
You forgot the other thousand miles of east coast between NC and Florida, where all those things are true as well.Bicyclist said:
I'm happy riding wherever.
EAST COAST, WHO HOOOO, so much more hardcore
yes, there is no tech riding anywhere in the west, it's all easy and wide, stay away please......
.....platty helped me get some basics for some gnarly stuff out here.....but I also know riding out here would help make me a better rider back east......so many presumptions and misconceptions
.....platty helped me get some basics for some gnarly stuff out here.....but I also know riding out here would help make me a better rider back east......so many presumptions and misconceptions
where do the best skiers come from, the east or the west?Bicyclist said:
Yeah there are good trails on Cape Cod, they are good but, I would have to kill you after I showed them to you.carbuncle said:
I have relatives on CC and I've taken a bike up there a few times, but never really found any great trails myself. Care to enlighten me with a PM?
I wonder how many people who are voting have actually ridden on both sides of the country. I've ridden out west just a few times, and it's just different than what I'm used to on the east.
bingo. and nebulous terms like "east" and "west" are rendered meaningless when trying to envelop several hundred thousand square miles.I Are Baboon said:
as far as DH out west, i've only been to northstar, but dragged my freeride bike to moab and have been xc'ing probably a dozen times in northern cal, OR, CO, NM, AZ and UT.
i like both kinds (country and western).
signed from bob's country bunker.
the trail of tears is one of the most fun xc trails that i have ever ridden. its super fast and flowy. you just put it in the big ring and fly through the woods. i love the natural berms that are all over the place there. check it out if you are ever back in the area.carbuncle said:
Such as Bode Miller or the Egan Brothers or even look where some of the Big Line rippers are from...narlus said:
East Coast Baby...
You Got That Right!, And I can't decide either and I actually live and ride closer to the middle...RhinofromWA said:The best place to ride is where you are at.
Someone else already blew it, so I'll just say Trail Of Tears is the same one that was talked up to me by my cousin. I just remember that the last time I was riding regularly there, the only stuff open was the power lines. Woohoo, power lines... Personally, I love the Bell's Neck conservation area on the Harwich/Dennis line, and there are a ton of trails in there that I grew up putzing around on as a kid. If you poked around in there, did some loops, got creative with where you went in and came out you would get a good few miles in, and see the only things I like about the Cape any more.Superdeft said:
And the coup de grace:
Abysmal summer weather.
And you know which coast I'm talking about.
Abysmal summer weather.
And you know which coast I'm talking about.
Which coast is PinkBike on..?
No doubt a lot of great skiers are from the East Coast.DH biker said:Such as Bode Miller or the Egan Brothers or even look where some of the Big Line rippers are from...
East Coast Baby...
But you know what - I'd be dollars to donuts none of them would choose to ski the East Coast.
Any place that gets you away from the redundant idiocies of these forums and on your bike is heaven.
Kansas would be an improvement!
Kansas would be an improvement!
okay, chalk one vote up for Camp Miserable.offtheedge said: