Pinkbike Poll: How Many Days Did You Ride in 2022?
Every few years we remember to run a poll to see how many rides Pinkbike's readers embarked on over the course of the last 12 months, since it's always interesting to see how many of you are dabblers versus dedicated mountain biking addicts.
Of course, there are all sorts of factors that influence how many days someone rides. Pesky things like school, jobs, and families can make it hard to find the time to get out, injuries can create forced time off the bike, and then there's the weather / location factor - in zones where winter arrives with a brutal vengeance and doesn't leave for months there's a lot less riding happening that somewhere with sustained sunshine and warm weather.
How did 2022 go for you? For the sake of this poll, we're keeping things constrained to mountain bike rides - props to all the riders out there who also spent time mixing it up on the road or in the gravel.
How would you classify the style of riding that you did the most in 2022?
Yes, it's all mountain biking, but if you had to pick a category what would it be?
2023 Goals
We're already three weeks into 2023, which means that most people have probably given up on their new year's resolutions by now. Those lofty goals of eating healthy and getting as ripped as Aquaman tend to fall by the wayside when it's dark and stormy outside and there's a fresh pint of Ben & Jerry's ice cream in the fridge. Still, it's not to late to make some goals for this year. Do you want to ride more? Less? The same? Cast your vote below.
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Cheers!
Xc: ride +20km on trails without stopping. Brief chat/grunt with buddies at the start and end
Trail: go as hard as you can on green/blue, occasional black trail sections, stop to chat for too long with buddies on trail heads (and block the xc riders )
Enduro/am : slow fireroad climbs to long descents whilst chatting with buddies, pin it on way down with the odd whoop.
Trail: __/\__/\__
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AM:__/ \__
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Enduro: __/ \__
Downhill:_
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FR: \....___/ \_____/ / /````````~~~~ \_______
(For days ridden)
Bmx since he was 4.
BMX background
I rode 268 days. Would have been more but missed 132 days from broken bones.
No, you didn't need this information
Now, I know this is not used for scientific data, and I can't even get my colleague scientists score data in a continuous/discrete way, but you asked. This is one of my three standard scientific rants. Hope you enjoyed it.
As for the statistics part, I don't quite agree with you on the discrete numbers part. Maybe some people would dive into their stats for a PB poll like this but otherwise people would just do a quick estimate. "I usually ride about twice per week. So that would make 104 times/days a year. I sure must have missed a few so let's say just below 100". And clicks that category. If you're asking absolute numbers, people choose the closest round number. So you'll see peaks at 100, 200, maybe also at the 50's... Asking for more precise answers won't necessarily give you more accurate answers.
So much for data collection. My concern here was primarily the presentation of the data. You can have categories with different bandwidths. Choosing them like they did here is questionable but ok. I think the way the data was presented (a histogram would have been most sensible) is plain wrong.
In my experience, analyses with discrete or continuous data are much more intuitive than analyses with categorical data, especially if you are about to make predictions. It's much easier to predict and understand a mean with error around it than making categorical predictions. But that's just the technical part.
Another disadvantage of categorical data is that it can only be compared to other studies that use the same categorizations. I work with people that look at crown defoliation. There are several different scales for that, almost all categorical. It grinds my gears that this choice -which is done because of ease of use in the field- results in many studies not being comparable to each other.
Anyway, it's clear why Pinkbike used this format to collect data. I do agree with your point on how the results are presented. But if you ask me about statistics and I see categorical data, I *will* put on my nerd glasses and go on my rant.
Do Pinkers in cities average 75 days fewer than their counterparts? Do people in the NE get after it compared to the Midwest?
I’m not complaining here. Just saying there’s a lot of untapped potential here.
my man, with that premise things can only go downhill
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come join the conversation and have somewhere to keep track if strava isn't your thing!
2023 Thread
Love this thread.
1000 hours a year has been my goal for a while.
meh
>hours
meh
>elevation gain
M-E-H
>total descent
this is what REALLY matters.
43km is the value I got in late july
I rode 203 days - 352 hrs of ride time.
Ebike: 466,427ft - 2,512 miles
Typewriter: 191,034ft -777 miles
Total: 657,461ft -3289 miles. Mainly most fun year Ive ever had riding. The bikes are better than ever and there is more trails being built around the world everyday.
An I bought a turbo for winter
Real bike suck
Virtual fat lad
Long answer, more frequently between more frequent injuries
If we only count riding on trails, then it’s about 100 or so.
My guess: as we move down the list it becomes more gravity-does- the-work-for-me oriented and less pedal-yourself-all-day-oriented.
As for being embarrassing, I have no clue why anyone would be embarrassed about knowing how many times they did a sport that they enjoy.