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07-25-04, 10:12 AM
Just a quick hello,
I'm new to the forum so here is a little about me:
I'm just back into biking after ten years off. I grew up in Deep Cove in North Vancouver and got started with the mountain bike craze from the begining. I traded my ten speed for a Norco Bigfoot before they indexed shifting and bars had the stem built in. Next in the progresion was a Kona Explosif as I started doing a little racing. At the time I waas also building and fixing bikes part time for the Cove Bike Shop. I started getting serious when I sold my dirtbike and bought Merlin frame #7 and spec.ed it with the latest Shimano SIS above the bar shifters (they where the best because you could turn the indexing off if you bashed anything.). I was still faster than most guys going downhill with my rigid bike when everyone started to run suspension forks. My biek paid the price with tacoed wheels and new headsets every couple months. I got busy with my career and moved away from the shore in about 1991.
Last year I got a deal on a new Rocky Mountain. I decided to go the all mountain route as it was still shamefull to not ride your bike to the top of the hill last time I rode here. I bought a 2004 Slayer 70 but it was an early one with the 2003 spec. Steep learning curve. I had some major endos learning to deal with the higher center of gravity. I was in love with disk brakes and the suspension. I tuned the thing relentlessly. I did alot of dh, adding a 8" front rotor and first a bash gaurd then a chain guide to my "all mountain" bike.
Before I knew it I was shuttling with guys riding 45lb bikes and my ride was taking a beating. I was running tires at the max pressures and still flating, tacos and warped brake rotors. I bought myself one of those silly freeride bikes.
I still ride to the top some days but I'm not so ashamed to truck the bike there or put it on the chairlift; progression(?)...
I'm a many bike household now. My ten-year-old rides a used Kona Stinky Jr. and my wife shares the Slayer with me. I'm out doing urban with my son all the time as well as Whistler when we all have time off together and, of course, the shore where some things are still the same but alot of things are different (in a good way).
Ride on, Greg
I'm new to the forum so here is a little about me:
I'm just back into biking after ten years off. I grew up in Deep Cove in North Vancouver and got started with the mountain bike craze from the begining. I traded my ten speed for a Norco Bigfoot before they indexed shifting and bars had the stem built in. Next in the progresion was a Kona Explosif as I started doing a little racing. At the time I waas also building and fixing bikes part time for the Cove Bike Shop. I started getting serious when I sold my dirtbike and bought Merlin frame #7 and spec.ed it with the latest Shimano SIS above the bar shifters (they where the best because you could turn the indexing off if you bashed anything.). I was still faster than most guys going downhill with my rigid bike when everyone started to run suspension forks. My biek paid the price with tacoed wheels and new headsets every couple months. I got busy with my career and moved away from the shore in about 1991.
Last year I got a deal on a new Rocky Mountain. I decided to go the all mountain route as it was still shamefull to not ride your bike to the top of the hill last time I rode here. I bought a 2004 Slayer 70 but it was an early one with the 2003 spec. Steep learning curve. I had some major endos learning to deal with the higher center of gravity. I was in love with disk brakes and the suspension. I tuned the thing relentlessly. I did alot of dh, adding a 8" front rotor and first a bash gaurd then a chain guide to my "all mountain" bike.
Before I knew it I was shuttling with guys riding 45lb bikes and my ride was taking a beating. I was running tires at the max pressures and still flating, tacos and warped brake rotors. I bought myself one of those silly freeride bikes.
I still ride to the top some days but I'm not so ashamed to truck the bike there or put it on the chairlift; progression(?)...
I'm a many bike household now. My ten-year-old rides a used Kona Stinky Jr. and my wife shares the Slayer with me. I'm out doing urban with my son all the time as well as Whistler when we all have time off together and, of course, the shore where some things are still the same but alot of things are different (in a good way).
Ride on, Greg