WannaGetGood

For me, one summer I saw some guys hucking it off some drops and drops, and I saw that's what I wanted to do with all my spare time. How about everyone else?

mx_599

couldn't race motocross anymore

mattress

Got an awesome deal on my bike, and the fact that I can ride from my front door to trails, any trip on my dirtbike takes hours to get there, is expensive, and is an all day event.

BCBike

I have been riding bicycles without training wheels since I was 3 years old. I still remember my dad taking them off for the first time and me riding out of my driveway onto the street with the little bike I had. I ve had quiet a few bikes since then [dirtbikes as well] but I stoped riding when I was 17 or something for around 3 years or so. All of the bikes I had had where rigid. I hadnt even tryed a full suspension before I purchased the bike I have now which is FS. So I look at MB's way differently these days and I guess I could say that the style and technology of the new bikes is what got my-self into riding again. I always enjoyed riding when I was younger and mountain biking just grew bigger and bigger as I grew older. Mountain bikes and the lifestyle that can follow it have changed drastically. When I was younger I couldnt picture the scene being like it is today, though I hadnt really paid attention.

scr1be

i like to dabble in a bit of everything. i was never into sports except soccer, but for some reason, i was into stuff like inline skating, skateboarding, snowboarding, martial arts, paintballing, and now mountain biking. it's just the type of "sports" i like to do. i'm not very good on the bike yet since i just really started this past year, but i hope to stick with it and get the bike handling skills down.

Flak

Ive been riding bikes in general for as long as i can remember.

I got into mtn bikes after my mum and dad split. My dad bought me a $600 Giant when i was visiting him one time (guilt is a wonderful thing isnt it? ) and i proceeded to do not much else but ride that thing for the next 8 years. Looking back on it, it was WAY too big for me at 18", but i grew into it and probably explains why i never had to replace it. I upgraded as i broke stuff on what little money i had as a kid.

I miss those days, would disappear with a mate of mine early in the morning, not return till after dark, and see what we could see....and im really looking forward to recapturing some of those days this year. I have a whole new place to explore. Thats what i love about mtn biking....exploring

[bEn]

I rode bikes since when i was a kid, but Mountain Biking... well a friend on these forums got me really into it.

blue_neon

A school "mountain bike" trip and the discovery of a local trail.

LowCel 

I rode years ago but quit around the time I was 16 or 17. I started driving and dating, no time for riding. Then when I was 18 I started smoking. Seven years later when I decided to quit smoking, at the tiem I was smoking three packs a day. I also spent more time in the bars than I spent at home. Once I quit smoking I decided to start riding again. I figured if I was riding I wouldn't smoke, if I smoked I couldn't ride. I also wanted to have something in common with my older brother. He has rode for years.

Oh yeah, when I first started riding again I could barely cross a four inch tree. My first complete year riding I did a whopping 637 miles! It's fun to look back at how much my riding has improved and how much my life in general has improved.

Drunken Chicken

I've always liked riding bikes, then a year after two of my best friends got themselves entry level bikes I was able to buy myself one. At that time I thought I'd only ride urban doing wheelies, stairs, small jumps and maybe some dirtpaths on the mountain but as my confidence grew I started riding gnarly trails and cool jumps. Who really got me into downhilling and freeride? My two best friends, as well as watching Matt Brooks & Jared Gatzka's video in the UFC, that was what really got me started in FR.

Arom

I have been riding bikes for as long as I can remember. My brothers and i would kinda play horse on our bmx bikes hucking off porches and such (we called it jumping). A friend let me ride his rockhopper at a local trail one day, i loved it, bought my hopper within 3 months. Got away from soccer,wrestling ,paintball,and skating, spent all my time on my bike, did my first 80-miler 4 months later, and ive been hooked. Got an old peugeot this summer and restored my brothers old specialized fatboy a few days later so...thats my fleet

Chumley360

The first time I was really into the whole urban riding scene and was looking for something a little different. Mountain biking was suggested by a few of the guys I was hanging out with and so I tried it. This second time my girlfriend pushed me back into it. I, unfortunatly, had to take an eight year hiatus. But I'm loving it again!

BoSoxYacht

I got tired of crashing my brains out in USCF cat 4 . My local shop thought I was nuts to spend that much money on a "toy bike" , $1300.00 was a lot of money for a bike in 1988 .

Specializerider

Well when i went to Walker Creek for a week a Outdoor ED school thing my camp counselor LOVED mountain biking and showed me all these magazines of it so i bought my self a mountain bike the day i got home from walker creek lol.

Maelstrom 

I was a gym rat. Loved working out. The gym in this town blows ass so I found another activity.

btadlock

I was a serious road biker in Florida, rode with great group of guys. They came out to Crested Butte Co each summer for two weeks of mtn biking, in 1990, I scraped some cash and bought a used '88 Raliegh Chill for $250, scraped more cash together and came out to Crested Butte in '91. We rode for 12 days, and I was hooked, not only on mtn biking, but hooked on Colorado as well. I then had my goal, to move to Colorado.
It took a job change and 3 other moves to finally get to Colorado in 2001. I am on my third mtn bike since moving out here, I have great single track less than 10 min from the house, work from home on EST hours, this is about as close to perfect as it can get.

Evilbee

My Dad always cycled (roadie) when I was a kid, and always encouraged me to do the same. I enjoyed the mud more though, and it helped that I grew up right next to a forest. I've just kept cycling and loved it ever since.

Snuffleupagus

Just after I ran my first marathon (up Grandfather Mountain here in NC) in 2004 I had an urge to branch out my racing...in part because ever since I saw the first "Eco Challenge" on the Discovery Channel I'd wanted to do an AR. Also, in part because at around 200lbs, I'm not really built to be competitive in straight up running, but I've got good endurance and pain tolerance - so cycling seemed like a good way to go.

I first picked up my dad's old Raleigh SuperCourse road bike in the summer of 2004, and in the early fall of 2004 I decided that in order to start doing ARs I needed to get on a mountain bike. I bought my friend's old 97 GT Karakoram (he had just built up an NRS1 frame), and rode that until the spring of 2005 when I bought my NRS.

Little did I know how much I'd come to love cycling. I liked bodybuilding, I like climbing, I like swimming, I really like running...but I love cycling. Nothing clears my head like a hard ride

pinkrobe

I got my Nishiki Rockhound in 85 or 86, and started riding around on that - it was way too big at 21.5" [I now ride a 17.5" bike]. Still, it handled dirt a lot better than my POS 10-speed. Things really took off when I got a Stumpjumper Team in '91 and found out about "singletrack". Oh my yes...

C4Byke

I started racing BMX at age 10? Well, somewhere around there, raced up until about 15 years old, then started track, wrestling, and xc in middle school. I discovered I was a naturally strong endurance athlete so I started going out on solo rides on a pos mongoose 18spd on some trails near my house. One day I saw these two older guys riding out there on these funky looking dirtbikesque bicycles, (now I now to be an early Klein Mantra and a steel softride) they invited me to come riding and what can I say, Ive been hooked since.

idleuser

My first real bike was a Trek 4500 and I only rode it on the road and on wide gravel trails, then a friend made me ride 11mi with him to a singletrack trail and back. I was exhausted being it was the first time i ever rode so far in a single stretch of time, but I was hooked on biking after that.

mcoine

Started racing bmx in '83, did some freestyle trick riding till about '87, got a road bike in 88, got my first mtn bike in '91. There is a bmx track 2 miles from here and they race 2 nights a week all year, so I might go get a bmx and give it another shot, in the 32 beginner class!

justwitheraway

Started when I was little. You know... little wooden plank and a few bricks... thought jumping was the coolest. Then my older brother's friends bought Stinkys.. admired them so much. And.. years went on, decided to my a beast of my own.

Jason222

I started trail biking on my grand father's Triathlon bike(ironman, rigid), in 2004. I really liked biking, but never owned a nice one. We went to the LBS and looked at the really cheap bikes they had there, mostly GT's and Trek's lower end bikes. The bike that stuck out to me the most, was the trek Y 26. I got the dumb thing for christmas, but returned it and on April 1st 2005, I got my Trek Bruiser 2. I've come a long way since then.

Blazinall91

lets see, as long as i can remember I've been riding some kind of bike. When i was younger i rode BMX for a while, then i got a mountain bike and rode that thing everywhere, i then found a trail in the woods by my house that a farmer used to transport small equipment, it was down the side of hill and i would just bomb the **** out of that hill and then huff and puff my way back up to the top of the hill to bomb it again, then i got into BMX again this time with dirt jumping and then i saw people doing crazy **** on mountain bikes and I had to do that, so i got my Bruiser and i've been working on that stuff, i love it, for me it's always been about the adrenaline