Yuh know, it won't be too long now before we know if he is real or not...he either shows up for the Markleeville Death Ride in July (?), which he said he was going to do, and is seen, or he doesn't show up.

I think there is a chance that he wasn't real until just recently when he bought a bike. He's talked about test-riding and shifting lately, and he hadn't previously. I also noticed that he didn't have anything to say in the "unwritten rules of a group ride thread", even when it had gotten to four pages, because he had never ridden, let alone with a group....it's easy to ratchetjaw about components by cribbing off manufacturer websites, but in order to write knowledgeably about a group ride, you have to have read about it or done it, and he hadn't....

I hear Markleeville fills up early, so he had better register first chance. I guess he can ride out there if he hasn't got his license yet and his parents are too busy....