Wat is nou eigenlijk Freeride? Downhill of Cross Country is makkelijk te defineren, maar Freeride is voor iedereen weer wat anders. Voor de ene rijder is “All Mountain” biken al Freeride, terwijl het voor de andere pas begint zodra hij in de lucht een trick uitvoert. Maar wie kunnen we het beter vragen aan de pro’s? Dit is hun antwoord op de vraag: “What is your Definition of Freeride”
Matt Hunter
“When you get in a cab, it takes you home and you don’t pay him, haha, no seriously, Just riding how you feel like, without someone timing you or anything like that, just riding for fun”
Cam McCaul
“Oh, that’s a good one, my definition of freeride is anytime your out riding your bike, trying to push your limits, .. it is just defined as something where you are not racing, so anytime you’re riding your bike and learning new things and trying to throw down some style, something like that, style and tricks, and just having fun.”
Steve Romaniuk
“Freeriding is just being free, ride where ever you want, whatever you want to do. That’s why it’s freeriding”
Gareth Dyer
“It explans itself, just ride free”
Carlo Dieckmann
“It’s everything you do when you bike, it’s just like, you just go streeting kinda streetstyle, big mountain or you go dirtjumping… , yeah it’s a bit of everything…, why not”
Titou Picard
“There is no defintion, because if there was one, it wouldn’t be freeride”
Tarek Rasouli
“Freeride is the way you express yourself on a bike and you involve in your riding all different obstacles, …, like gaps, drops, or you ride on wooden trees, like at the north shore, or you go dirtjumping, which is also freeriding “
Aaron Chase
“I guess anything that you can do on a bike, besides from racing and competing. You know we do compete in freeride but, freeriding is what everybody does for fun”
Ryan Leech
“It is what it says… there are no definitions, it is what the rider wants it to be”
Darren Berrecloth
“The ability to do anything you feel or want to do on a bike”
Trond Hansen
“Freeriding is just riding bikes for fun, not for going fast, freeriding is kinda doing everything you want on a bike. To me singletrack riding is as much freeriding as dirtjumps and slopestyles and everything. The only definition of freeride in compair to racing is, the goal is not to go fast, the goals is just to have as much fun as you can”
Cameron Zink
“Riding your bike and progressing”
Mike Kinrade
“I myself think freeriding is going out and enjoying the ride, XC, DJ, street, big bike, anything, it’s free it’s fun, that’s what freeriding is”
Carlin Dunne
“Freeride is having the freedom to do what you want, be able to go where you want, to be able to be as creative as you want, you’re not convined by a racecourse”
Wade Simmons
“Yeah, I don’t have a definition of Freeride, i don’t know, itsn’t it in the … dictonary yet, it’s been around for a while, it should be”
Robbie Bourdon
“Just Riding, you know, where ever you want, without any rules and no one realy judging you, and there is no time”
Geoff Gulevich
“The ability to ride anywhere and do anything, with no boundries”
Cedric Gracia
“Riding with my friends, hang out and drink beer. No timing”
Randy Sprangler
“Freeriding to me is a pretty loose term, in the sense of like, it is such an open thing that you can have guts from tons of different area’s come ride with you. You can go self-express yourself in dirt jumping, ripping downhill, racecourses like just the fact of being out there, self expression, having a good time, no stress, being with your friends and ripping it up”
Ritchy Schley
“Ride and feel free”
Michal Marosi
“This (the adidas slopestyle) is not freeride, this is streetriding, freeride is if you find a good trail and you have a choise for riding and do everything you want. And freeride is in the wood and no building stuff like wooden drops or something like this”
Timo Pritzel
“Free like the word is saying, do what you wanna do, free ride, and it shouldn’t be limited, it’s kind of a mix of mountainbiking”
Thomas Vanderham
“I don’t know, I don’t like the word freeride because it puts it into a category. Freeriding is every kind of riding as long as you are enjoying yourself on a bike”
