what is your riding experience skill level ?

If you must feel the need to rate yourself I would have to go with w_b 's rating system. Based on this rating system I will be an intermediate/advanced for life. Just get out and ride , no rating system needed.
 
It's been my experience that if I keep the wheels spinning, I'm less likely to just flop over on my side....when stationary, that is. 😉
 
Not sure how anyone can do a comparison, we have cat 1 riders on here that can't do a log over more than 6".
 
Fitness is much easier to get than skills, all you need is time and a little motivation. I measure skill based on how many features you ride vs. walk, how smoothly you can navigate a gnarly line, end of the day that's why we ride, right? If I want to mindlessly pedal, I ride my road bike. Fitness you can get in a season, skills can take years, and to me they are the most rewarding part of mountain biking.
 
tommyjay said:
My skill level is inversely proportional to the mean skill level of the people I am riding with. When I ride alone, I am infinitely skilled.
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This is true for everything in my life, especially the difference between the mirror and pictures. In the mirror, I have a little grey hair, a little bit of a gut, unfortunately the camera sees a slob who makes Anderson Cooper's hair look like salt and pepper.
Yesterday, alone, I shot a 56 at Augusta with 3 aces.
 
pooriggy said:
I've seen Kevin take a 12" log with no problem...after some warm up of course.
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12" is the warm up.

For serious, there is speed, skill and style

You can have speed and no skill, skill without speed and any combination of the three. For instance, you can have skills like Danny Macaskill but not necessarily have speed. Also take into consideration that speed can mask skill as it is usually harder to ride something slower.

Speed and skill without style is a shame.
 
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Skill and fitness are relative terms to how you ride, so it's kind of pointless to try to categorize yourself. I like @Norm 's definition because all this sh*t really is open-ended. The one thing you do know is that every time you ride, you have a chance to get a tiny bit "better" (however you want to define that - faster, better bike-handler, smarter at reading a trail, better endurance, etc.) and there isn't a ceiling on that until you stop trying to improve. Where is your level? It's probably a little higher than it was last time you rode and a little lower than it could be after the next ride.
 
It's totally relative. When I ride with my regular crew at chimney rock, I'm usually in the lead, handling nearly all terrain in flow. So with this group, I consider myself advanced. But when I tried the Thursday night ride, I was (graciously) dropped in an instant. Of course I could still ride everything, but had no chance of keeping up. So same park, but different group, I felt like a beginner. Same thing happened when I tried to ride with Jim V (though this may have more to do with the fact that he hates everybody ). Bottom line to me is it just depends on who you are riding with and what your expectations are.
 
1speed said:
Skill and fitness are relative terms to how you ride, so it's kind of pointless to try to categorize yourself. I like @Norm 's definition because all this sh*t really is open-ended. The one thing you do know is that every time you ride, you have a chance to get a tiny bit "better" (however you want to define that - faster, better bike-handler, smarter at reading a trail, better endurance, etc.) and there isn't a ceiling on that until you stop trying to improve. Where is your level? It's probably a little higher than it was last time you rode and a little lower than it could be after the next ride.
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interesting take - i'm in much worse shape than 2-3 years ago, yet my times keep improving in the woods... better bike, more familiarity, better lines & confidence?
unless it is uphill.
 
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