What are the most underrated and most overrated things in mountain biking?

schred

Likes Bikes and Dirt
Overrated
- ....
- The use of the term "loam" and "shred"
- ..../QUOTE]
Hey easy mate! Keeping it fresh since 2003 or whenever, aight.

Under rated
- flush cut side cutters
- jumps, any
- resolving trail side repairs but not having any for years, including flat tyres

Over rated
- Opinions
- Bike hate wars
- advertising and marketing, and HR for good measure.
 

johnny

I'll tells ya!
Staff member
Old DH bikes with old tired parts, I’ll give a miss. Rejuvenating old bikes, and riding them, hells yes!

Overrated.

Half arsed ‘shreddits’ by half arsed riders.

98% of user and mag/web reviews of high end products. You’ve either been given something high end to try, and therefore don’t bite the hand that feeds you...or you bought said high end product, and it must be awesome, coz you spent lots on it.

Underrated. Redskins lollies. Gold.
Gold is underrated?

But my broker said it's a bubble?
 

Lazmo

Old and hopeless
under rated
just riding for ridings sake... sometimes quick, sometimes slow, sometimes tooling around, sometimes lost, etc

over rated
strava straight liners... the dudes who take the short cut inside the tree or whatever. Who cares if you're the strava bro for one day. Some other strava wannabee will use your new straight line and next thing ya know, you're bumped down the list, but that's become the new boring trail.
 

Dales Cannon

lightbrain about 4pm
Staff member
I had a nice cooling dip in a pool mid ride on a hot day. That was great. Second only to a pub stop probably.
 
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