best and worst of 2006.......opinionated?
12-16-06, 11:54 PM
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Best bike: My Anthem, Low Cel new Turner, Scott Spark, Seeing a Scott Ransom 20 and some bling bling
bikes
(bikes that make you go "aww, I want IT!!!"
worst bike: Broken bikes
Best bike innovation: Suspension, from bikes - shock - fork, PTFE tape on the shifter/
brake clamp onto the handlebar
worst innovation: bells at the end of the handlebars
Best trail (your favorite): Ipoh Fellowship Ride - 47km ride with fast non-technical downhill and easy to
moderate downhills
Best biking personality: Ringing my bike bell (given free by the organizer) when reaching Kayuh Lasak finish
line with a big white patch on my right knee
best thing happen since I join BF : meeting you guys, some to take note is Low Cel, Siu, Kona, Pheard,
Erhan, Little Leo and some others
bikes
(bikes that make you go "aww, I want IT!!!"worst bike: Broken bikes
Best bike innovation: Suspension, from bikes - shock - fork, PTFE tape on the shifter/
brake clamp onto the handlebar
worst innovation: bells at the end of the handlebars
Best trail (your favorite): Ipoh Fellowship Ride - 47km ride with fast non-technical downhill and easy to
moderate downhills
Best biking personality: Ringing my bike bell (given free by the organizer) when reaching Kayuh Lasak finish
line with a big white patch on my right knee
best thing happen since I join BF : meeting you guys, some to take note is Low Cel, Siu, Kona, Pheard,
Erhan, Little Leo and some others
12-17-06, 06:11 AM
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[QUOTE=willtsmith_nwi]Nah, this is clearly the worst
https://www.au004a2814.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/airbike.html
Oh mannn that's just wrong, I mean wrong, wrong, wrong!!!
https://www.au004a2814.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/airbike.html
Oh mannn that's just wrong, I mean wrong, wrong, wrong!!!
12-17-06, 06:28 AM
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Best Bike - my own of course!!
Worst Bike - ??
Best Innovation - Eggbeaters - not new I know but a joy in the mud!!
Worst Innovation - Gary Fishers messing of fork geometry.
Best Trail/s - My own (6 of them and counting)
Best Personality - Steve Peat - champ again. & Tym Manley (ed of MBUK)
Worst Moment of 2006 - Breaking my bike
Best Moment of 2006 - Fixing my bike
Worst Bike - ??
Best Innovation - Eggbeaters - not new I know but a joy in the mud!!
Worst Innovation - Gary Fishers messing of fork geometry.
Best Trail/s - My own (6 of them and counting)
Best Personality - Steve Peat - champ again. & Tym Manley (ed of MBUK)
Worst Moment of 2006 - Breaking my bike
Best Moment of 2006 - Fixing my bike
12-17-06, 10:30 AM
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Originally Posted by KonaRider24
Do you absolutely have to go bagging on everything that is not a-typical.
This thing is not of my thinking but is used by several pro downhillers in the wet conditions since the mid 90's, so it isn't exactly an innovation.
If so, no wonder you ride a brown bike with purple anodized parts..
12-17-06, 10:34 AM
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Originally Posted by Siu Blue Wind
because you aren't experiencing it in the same conditions he will be.
12-17-06, 11:29 AM
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Don't be silly! It's ME who will be on a paved path (after my Christmas present arrives on the 20th!). 
Oh boy I can't wait!! *does the happy dance!*
12-17-06, 04:53 PM
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Originally Posted by Siu Blue Wind
Oh boy I can't wait!! *does the happy dance!*
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12-17-06, 07:40 PM
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haha, 2 more days to go (my time though ), and Siu must post some pics of her christmas present
), and Siu must post some pics of her christmas present
12-17-06, 08:54 PM
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I change my vote for best bike...... I htink the Australian Gravity GT/SRAM team have the best bike by far
12-17-06, 11:03 PM
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Originally Posted by wheelhot
haha, 2 more days to go (my time though ), and Siu must post some pics of her christmas present
), and Siu must post some pics of her christmas present It arrives on Wed but I work late that day. I have to go open it on Thursday.
12-18-06, 05:44 AM
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Originally Posted by Siu Blue Wind
Of what? It's not here yet. 
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12-18-06, 07:00 AM
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Originally Posted by Hopper
I change my vote for best bike...... I htink the Australian Gravity GT/SRAM team have the best bike by far
12-18-06, 11:04 AM
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Best bike: Surly 1x1 and Stumpy FSR
worst bike: The new Bianchi Rita, cuz I can't get it.
Best bike innovation:???
worst innovation:The interbike camo paint job of that Australian Gravity GT/SRAM team bike
Best trail (your favorite): Jack Brooks.
worst trails (other than pavements full of speeding cars)....my backyard, giving up on building a pump trail now that I have a dog.
Best biking personality:Matthew McConaughey just joking
best bike trip you took.. Post Turkey day bike ride with my wife. It was her first time to ride the trials. I was riding the trials like a Sunday driver, but to see my wife smiling while trying to go over the obstacles... awesome.
worst bike: The new Bianchi Rita, cuz I can't get it.
Best bike innovation:???
worst innovation:The interbike camo paint job of that Australian Gravity GT/SRAM team bike
Best trail (your favorite): Jack Brooks.
worst trails (other than pavements full of speeding cars)....my backyard, giving up on building a pump trail now that I have a dog.
Best biking personality:Matthew McConaughey
just jokingbest bike trip you took.. Post Turkey day bike ride with my wife. It was her first time to ride the trials. I was riding the trials like a Sunday driver, but to see my wife smiling while trying to go over the obstacles... awesome.
12-18-06, 11:23 PM
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Originally Posted by mcoine
What do you mean by "not a-typical"? First of all the word is atypical, and it means not typical.
I'm sorry, you know it probably is usefull for the "several pro downhillers in the wet conditions" that use it. I have to remember that not everyone gave up emulating their favorite pros for no reason by the time they were 14.
Its not brown, not that the color of a persons bike means anything. But isn't a statement like this just bagging on everything that is atypical?
I'm sorry, you know it probably is usefull for the "several pro downhillers in the wet conditions" that use it. I have to remember that not everyone gave up emulating their favorite pros for no reason by the time they were 14.
Its not brown, not that the color of a persons bike means anything. But isn't a statement like this just bagging on everything that is atypical?
Listen I don't like getting bashed for trying something that is new to me, now I'll be able to use what I have gathered from trying that further down the road. You bagged on something I was trying, just decided to turn the tables for a bit.
Atypical, A-typical is the same dang thing, both go through without issue with spell check.
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