what does "freeride" mean?

[reanimation]

You are all right IMO.

Paul seems to be summing up what the hard core freeriders mean by it. which is what modern riders mean by it.

I'd like to say that I freeride and always have not that i'm trying to be trendy or am a fearless nut cos i so am not, my old Orange and GT's in teh early 90's got jumped about, bombholes, XC, racing. it was mostly XC. my newer modern bike Identiti Dr Jekyll was my re entry to MTB, i wanted this modern bike to take me playing out with all the bits i liked, sturdy BMX and big wheeled MTB. DH is steady on it and taking non XC type lines on it is a buzz, its not the right bike for me but can handle most stuff.

tell ya what going back to my fully rigid canti braked Raleigh Apex on the peaks trip was pure XC, and I liked it, nowt wrong with XC, missed it but ls nice to play around at any level too, peaks ride was XC on an XC bike, on the Identiti, I can do whatever i dare

 

[Kona Paul]

Without all the marketing sh1te,freeride is just riding,not training,not racing,just having fun in the woods,in the mountains,where ever.

So your weekly ride on a bit of local single track in the woods is freeriding then? Bollocks.

no need to be rude fella free riding was always about doing what you want where you want on what you want pushing yourself if you felt like it hence the term FREE RIDING it was all about the fun and finding new stuff and ways to play on your bike till someone put a label on it and it became the new in thing and went ott :roll: :roll:

I'm not being rude, fella. I ride XC, and don't think my weekly rides on the local single track falls under the term freeride, even when we take alternate routes off the beaten track. That's still cross country to me. However, I'm probably mistaken, as British retro bikers were at the forefront of the freeride movement I should accept your definition and silence myself

 

[doctor-bond]

I'm still not quite sure what freeride is, but having spent some time thinking about it with my gramophone and pipe, I'm pretty sure it's what i used to do on my raleigh grifter.

We used to drop some fairly small jumps using woodwork planks and bricks from the building site.

And as I drove home tonight I noticed a couple of the kids up the road north of my house had built a pretty fierce obstacle course using some more wood and bricks.

They were sharing a nice green bike too: I couldn't be sure, but I think it might have been a Kona Grrrifter. My grifter wasn't green though. It was blue.

Anyway, to cut a long story short, my grifter got a bit too small so I bought a mountain bike.

 

[rosstheboss]

They still make hardtail freeride bikes. The Cove Stiffee for example. Usually the fullies weigh around 30 pounds and have 6-8" of travel.

Cove Stiffee's are in a similar style to my Mountain Cycle Rumble - but that's an ALL MOUNTAIN bike, hehehe!

As a wise man once said "Just get out and ride!"

Except I can't because my shoulder's still wrecked, maybe due to using my 'all mountain' bike for something other than 'all mountain' riding :?: :!: :?: :!: [/b]

 

[xizang]

Anyhow freeride is now retro, all the kids are now riding slopestyle :shock:

As others have quoted before me, Freeride is what we used to do, playing on bikes, now it's got a label and they like to 'huck' off things instead of jumping.

Just look at the RedBulll Rampage and the things they're doing now to what was going on 5/10 years ago. Backflipping off cliffs and landing it, most of the time.

I like watching it but definately don't have the balls to do it.

Next year there'll be a new label put on it by marketing 'geniuses' and naturally a new range of bikes to do the aforementioned new thing :roll:

 

[messiah]

XC is the trail going under the ramp, freeride is the one going over.

For me a freeride bike has to be capable of being ridden back up the hill; if it can't be ridden back up because it doesn't have the gears then it's a DH bike.

"Slopestyle" is modified DH bikes built for smooth terrain parks with big air and styling on jumps as prioirty rather than purely going fast down rocky and bumpy tracks.

 

[dyna-ti]

Couple of girls, i once knew used this term

 

[Neil G]

Freeride seems yet another BS term dreamed up by someone (probably in marketing or a magazine) to describe people who get 'extreme' but don't race lol

Never really been a new thing although the equipment has improved....Me & my mates used to 'freeride' ie jump on full XC bikes....as we all know there weren't many alternatives

 

[losidan]

years ago i used to live near a disused railway track which a bit some guys who rode motorbikes developed into a "play" area for them....Kind of like the place at Denholme near holmfirth but not as big....It was hardly used for years and ended up as my personal freeride area!!!

God I miss that place...it had loads of different stuff to keep you going and right on my back door step
Why did we ever move home :roll:

In fact I am going to go there tomorrow to see if it is all still there....Very much doubt it....

 

[reanimation]

Got my second bust lip at Denholme on my PW50 on the flat bit too, I was only about 7 or summat, and couldn't even ride a push bike, every time my dad put me on that brisk little motorbike i hurt myself, no wonder im so cautious now! :idea: