My first somewhat serious bike:

Iron Horse yakuza Bokuta 17" almost complete I bought for $200 from a guy off Craigslist. Brand spanking new too. All it was missing was a wheelset, disc brakes and rear cassette.

Already ordered and waiting on Hayes MX1 brakes and levers and a cheap wheelset off ebay to get me rolling. Can't freaking wait!

Well, I finished building my ride again from scratch. I bought a 2005 Fisher HKEK last year, upgraded just about everything, bought a Jamis Dakar XLT frame, put the upgraded parts on the Jamis, and just finished building my Fisher again.

Okay, so it's not stock. It is has a 1x8 drivetrain, hollowtech crankset with BBG bashring, SRAM composite rear derailleur (cheapest I could find that still works okay), Panaracer Fire XC Pro Kevlar tires, ODI Lock-On grips, Chris King headset...there's something I'm leavin' out, I'm sure.

The frame is a ZR9000 alum with Rockshox Pilot SL fork with Motion Control Lockout. Bontrager cockpit. Avid FR-5 levers, with Shimano OEM V-brakes.

It weigh's barely sub-25 lbs. (I think) It feels really light, anyway. Stock, it weighed 27.3lbs, but now it's minus a front derailleur with cables, big ring, granny gear, heavy Bontrager Select Crankset and BB, Front shifter...and some other stuff.

So it freakin climbs like a goat and handles really well. The Genesis geometry is insane-fun. Manuals and wheelies are effortless with the short chainstay's, and climbing is wicked easy with the weight over the Booty.

It's just my beater now. I wanna try to find a cheap/lighter fork like a Manipoo Black Super Air, and maybe go with an X-7 drivetrain. Other than that, I love it to death.

My new build, its only been ridden about .4k, i snapped the chain at that point Now that its in the garbage, i'll buy a new one soon.

I'd been looking at VT's for a while and finally picked up a sweet deal on Craigslist.

WOW! nice bike man.

this is my new ride, just picked it up and havnt ridden it yet, I have a 99 fsr also for riding to school

Just a couple of shots from yesterdays ride. Was very muddy, but thats the way i like it : D Fenders would have helped mud flicking, but i just hate the look of them!

mud is sexy

Damn Man!! What the hell did you eat!?!

I just blew out my Rock Shox Judy SL that I got in 2001. It's locked out now and the Bike Machanic thought I blew the cartridge. He said to look up " hippitech suspension.com " as they bought out Rock Shox. It's on my Ibis Mojo that only has 150 miles on it so everything was still almost new. Really pisses me off as I just started riding again after taking several years off and now I'm faced with this crap. Should I buy a new fork, maybe a 2005 model for half off? Or put good money after bad and try to fix this one? Thanks

Bought this Jamis XLT 1.0 from my LBS stock. Rode it all last year and the stock parts started to give. Upgrades this year include Mavic Crossmax Enduro wheelset, X9 rear deraileur and pods, pg-990 cassette, sram chain, race face deus xc crankset, race face prodigy stem (only for the colour ) and a fox rp3 rear shock w/ pro pedal.

Next year i'll be looking at an air fork and some new hydros.

Hey man, that's really nice. I just finished building one of those not too long ago. I posted it elsewhere, but I'll post it here too.

I want some of those Enduro's or XL's. Wow, that'd really make this thing accelerate even quicker.

For now, I'm stickin' with:
Fox Float rear shock / Vanilla 130 R fork
XT Der's, chain, cassette, hubs
LX HTII Cranks, shifters
Easton EA 70 Bar / EA 50 stem
Raceface Evolve XC post
Avid Juicy 5 hydro's
Lizard Skins Logo Lock-on's
SanMarco Arami Flow saddle
Kenda Nevegal Stick-E 2.35's

Right now, she weighs 30.5 pounds on the old digital scale. I wouldn't mind dropping a couple of lbs, but not at the expense of my coil sprung fork.

, looks quite disturbing, but its mud. This is the hill that made the bike fairly dirty. We call it the 'Clay hill' as all it is, is just mud & clay and extremely slippery. You would more likely hurt yourself pretty badly if you didn't use your brakes as there is a 75 metre tree right in the middle at the end. The hill looks MUCH bigger then in the picture. My riding buddy (blue_neon, forum member) had some trouble coming down it as you might see him in the picture since his rear brake failed on him.

Sure is

Stealing from my other thread...

Mm odwalla yum.

I would personally say buy 2005, new fork technology is leaps and bounds better than it once was

Haha. That was a box we got from cosco and I'm holding an old car stereo system (minus amp ) that I plan on using on my computer.

The front panel is all 12v so with a little fooling around I can get an Alpine panel in my computer

I've also got some speakers and speaker covers in there...

And this tosser was at bottem pissing himself filming me.

Yep, it was funny.

Hahaha, what are friends for?

I have a newbie question, howcome I see some bikes with the seatpost fully extended and some riding really low? I told you it was a newbie question.

It depends on the rider.

Personally, If I'm riding off road, I put it low so I can stand up and jump easier.

If I'm riding on the road, I put it higher so I can get more power out of my legs.

Higher Seatpost: Better pedaling efficiency.
Lower Seatpost: More clearance.

High Seatpost : Better pedaling efficiency (), easier to pedal, release your inner strentgh.
Lower seatpost: Out of the way so you can move around the bike and provide better control.

Downhil riders: Lower seat post position
XC riders: High seat post position
All Mountain: Maybe high maybe low....lets say meduim

ITS ALL PERSONAL PREFERENCE THOUGH!