Friday urban June 6th

[methods]

Well, I get off work at 10pm... im sure you guys will still be out!

So, Paul, I will give you a call when I get home!

I want to ride!!!

[adam45]

Ok I will have my cell.

[-Alex2-]

Friday night STREET! And I'll definitely be there, even if certain old people chintz out early, I'll stick around after 10 for sure!

[methods]

Lookey here grasshopper, Ive been walking 10 miles in the snow for the last 8 years...

Well, the latter, is true. Urban then, urban now. Suck it up princess.

[-Alex2-]

Fuck that, I'm not going on your friday night urban. I'm going on my friday night street! It just happens to meet at the same place and time, and go to the same places as your friday night urban. But it's way less lame, 'cause it's not called urban! ...Hey, wait a second. You have not been doing the friday night urbans since you were 13 (and I was 10)!

[methods]

Fuck that, I'm not going on your friday night urban. I'm going on my friday night street! It just happens to meet at the same place and time, and go to the same places as your friday night urban. But it's way less lame, 'cause it's not called urban! ...Hey, wait a second. You have not been doing the friday night urbans since you were 13 (and I was 10)!

Indeed I have.

13 years old, riding the first year of specialized P3 ;)

There's even video evidence!

[-Alex2-]

Hahah, I gotta see that! I lied though, can't make it this friday. Tian leaves tomorrow and I promised to go to Kung Fu Panda with him & his gf tonight. Skadoosh! Midweek street ride anyone? And next friday for sure. What's your number though Paul, just in case?

[cyclist.ca]

Hi, a n00b here, what is urban/street riding?

[methods]

You suck. Go be the third wheel instead of riding on two.

I'm probably going to miss out tonight too... So I shouldn't talk :P

[-Alex2-]

Hey, it just wouldn't be as romantic without me there to double team Tian with burns the whole time. Once he's gone though I'll be on vacation from my job as full time Tian burner, so it'll be all about the riding. Man, Paul's been awful quiet this thread eh? Cell number?

[methods]

Nice one.

50/50 I'll be out tonight. Gotta goto work soon grr.

[adam45]

PMd my phone number, will be riding tonight.

[adam45]

Hi, a n00b here, what is urban/street riding?

Urban and or Street is a combination of different styles. Some BMX tricks mixed in with Trials and Mountain. The main things is to take advantage of the terrain ( Street ) to perform tricks and such. To make the most of what we have around us in the City ( Urban ) enviroment. Stairs, walls, railings, sea wall, monuments, flower beds, buildings, city parks all become part of our "trails". Although theres generally no course and we ride were whims take us.

This is just my opinion of "Urban" and I'm not sure theres an absolute definition for this .

Cheers

[-Alex2-]

This is just my opinion of "Urban" and I'm not sure theres an absolute definition for this .

Urban riding is freeriding in an urban environment. It's usually done on a full suspension bike, but of course there are no rules. It consists mostly of stairgaps and drops onto makeshift trannies. Riders who mistakenly refer to street riding as urban riding, or worse, urban assault, are accepted to be giant losers and outcasts of society, and should not be approached or spoken to at any cost.
Street riding is it's own discipline with it's own use-specific hardtail bikes (similar to dirt jump bikes, but with front brakes and bashguards to accomodate for the city's wider variety of terrain, and therefore greater potential for tricks). It's most often kept to within 5' or so of the ground, and the focus is on technical tricks, like 180 or manual combos, instead of just big dead sailors. It often encorporates dirt jumping or trials riding skillsets and tricks as well, and like freeriding, what you do and where and how you do it is entirely up to your own imagination (and of course ability). Aaron Chase is credited as being the pioneer of mountain bike (26" wheeled) street riding as a primary discipline, and is known to be the best at it, but of course, as with any discipline of mountain biking, it has existed at some level as long as people have been riding bikes. Street riding is widely accepted to be "where it's at", and it's a well known fact that everybody who's anybody does it, and does it often.

[methods]

"what you do and where and how you do it is entirely up to your own imagination"

Makes your entire post moot.

[-Alex2-]

You're moot. I explained the bikes, the environment, the guidelines, the skillsets used, the pioneer/frontrunner of the discipline and the level of loseristication that you are for saying urban assault. Knowing that, what you do and where and how you do it is entirely up to your own imagination. Don't take my quotes from the Alextionary out of context.