chiangmaiexpat Posted May 7, 2015 Share Posted May 7, 2015 Since mountain biking has become mainstream, it has split into an amazing number of sub-disciplines, such as cross-country, downhill, trials, four cross, dual slalom, dirt jumping, slopestyle and whatnot. One discipline that is not very well know is vertriding, actually some would say it isn't really a discipline. It's basically riding on steep and difficult terrain in alpine and subalpine environments. Technically it's between DH and trials and in Austria and in Germany it's also referred to as "Stolperbiking". It's probably unknown in Thailand, because there is very little alpine terrain here, but I wonder whether people in other countries are riding mountain trails. Some examples: Cheers, CM-Expat Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
impulse Posted May 7, 2015 Share Posted May 7, 2015 Wow. We just took our bikes to the woods and rode whatever we found. Unless the route was just plain stupid... We walked our bikes over that part. Of course, none of us had sponsors, or a Youtube following. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
h90 Posted May 7, 2015 Share Posted May 7, 2015 nice but hardly new.....was done 20 years ago i Austria Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobfish Posted May 7, 2015 Share Posted May 7, 2015 nice but hardly new.....was done 20 years ago i Austria Elite guys like Hans Rey were doing this type of thing for sure. But I think even he would admit that the bikes and the terrain being ridden has moved on. A lot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
h90 Posted May 7, 2015 Share Posted May 7, 2015 nice but hardly new.....was done 20 years ago i Austria Elite guys like Hans Rey were doing this type of thing for sure. But I think even he would admit that the bikes and the terrain being ridden has moved on. A lot. The bikes for sure, but the terrain didn't change unless they discovered some new mountains. We used mountainbikes to go where it is not possible and tried but didn't have fancy words for it. no marketing but same thing. Always in the Alps people tried to climb up with the MTB. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tifino Posted May 7, 2015 Share Posted May 7, 2015 (edited) what a hoot!! and here I am, having been all along thinking how adventurous I was - in finding the steepest smooth sealed road, and overtaking some dude's Toyota Corolla, at 76kmh in a 60 Zone... at least he had a helmet on Edited May 7, 2015 by tifino Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
h90 Posted May 8, 2015 Share Posted May 8, 2015 what a hoot!! and here I am, having been all along thinking how adventurous I was - in finding the steepest smooth sealed road, and overtaking some dude's Toyota Corolla, at 76kmh in a 60 Zone... at least he had a helmet on In the Alps you can get over 100 km/h. Unfortunately my Trek bike doesn't feel as good at high speed. Not sure if it is me or the frame geometry. I could overtake a motorbike club down the Grossklockner. (actually a true wonder that I survived my youth). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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