XC, Trail, All-Mountain, Enduro, DH, DJ/Slope, Urban?
Is there a type of riding you wish you could do/do more of but don’t have it locally?
XC, Trail, All-Mountain, Enduro, DH, DJ/Slope, Urban?
Is there a type of riding you wish you could do/do more of but don’t have it locally?
Urban and trail. Snow riding I miss since moving to lower mainland BC; only had 1 or two days (in many years) where the snow studded tires were useful.
I live in Finland and ride about 4 months a year in snow and sometimes there’s a lot of it. Not a fan personally. I even bought an eFatbike so that I can ride year around but I simply just don’t find it very enjoyable. I feel that there’s more freedom in summer riding since in the winter you need to stick to the trails people have walked on. It’s usually also dark when I get out so I can’t really even see around me. Just feels so lonely and miserable out there alone in a pitch black forest.
I randomly went down a YouTube rabbit hole looking at mountain bike footage in Scandinavia. I have never visited but it seems like it has to be THE most under-rated or under-acknowledged riding areas on the planet. So much of the footage online appears to be world class terrain.
Is it really insanely good?
Why hasn’t it blown up as the premier bike mecca?? Any insight into what holds it back from a tourism vantage point?
Theory I came up with: the riding is so incredible gnarly it can never really be mainstream?
Finland is not part of Scandinavia.
I don’t know if it’s that good because I don’t know what kind of trail you’re talking about. What I ride is mostly forest roads and single track in pine/spruce forests. I guess if you’re into technical trail riding then it’s a good spot due to all the exposed rocks and boulders from the ice age and I’m personally quite lucky to live within riding distance from few nature preserves with lakes and exposed bedrock which is quite nice place to ride in expecially scenery-wise.
Here’s a quite typical trail around where I live.