Hello, I like Bikes, and I have to many. Going to sell a few. Just need one. Nor-Cal, BBQ is fun, Freeride and DH for the Win. Mostly ride Bay Area, Coast and some oddly good Deer Trails.
Kyle from Canada here, Ontario specifically but will be back in the western mountains as soon as I retire in a couple years. Been back on the bikes, after an 18yr break due to career demands, since 2020 and went from 0 to 5 rigs in that timeframe, soon to be 6 next week 🤣 addiction what?
Currently Wrench in a Local shop, Build trails at our local Enduro/DH park, and ride as much as I can fit into my schedule. Big time gravity pig and glad to be here and share in the knowledge on the forums which seem a little more refined than over on binkpike.
Hey, I'm Matt been lurking on the team rumors thread for a few seasons now, then got sucked in by the tech thread and what bike companies are going to close soon thread, but never really felt any reason to post until recently. I ride in Michigan mostly but I have a bruise that's almost a year old now from Windrock
Hi, I'm Ben Corona CA, 36 years old. Been riding bikes since age 5. Rode mainly BMX till the age of 12 then MTBS ever since. Local trails are Troy Lee. Also ride a lot of sycamore canyon (Riverside) and Dog park (San Clemente). I've come to realize I don't have a lot of friends that ride anymore the older I get. My skill level/ risk has gone down due to mainly riding by myself. And I want to change that. So, if anyone is in my area hit me up.
just read through most of this thread and it really tugged at the ol' heart strings and had me sad that I didn't switch to MTB sooner haha! for a long time i thought I liked PB better than vital but over the years I realized that the content and the vibe was so much better here. more intelligent posting, better race coverage, etc.
My name is Sean and I live and ride in Santa Cruz where i work at a grocery store in the produce department. I have been a bike lover forever but there was a time when bmx bikes got too heavy and mountain bikes too complicated (and noisy, and sketchy.) I rode brakeless fixed gear in San Francisco before lucking into a job at Specialized doing bike and product graphics while I was still in art school.
Ended up dropping out of school and working full time at Speci and got into "gravel" waaaaay back in 2014. I had tried riding demos and glories and enduros, ridden at campus and northstar and mammoth but I didn't understand how mtb worked day to day. (edit: my friend convinced me to buy a single speed Sofa King hardtail back in 2010 but that thing was a bitch to climb and didn't really put the best mtb taste in my mouth...) Rode dj, bmx, track bikes, cyclocross bikes, and finally a big ol boat of a dirt tourer that slowly morphed into a rigid mtb. Finally got sick of crashing on features I knew a proper mtb would handle and got a hard tail, but by that point I was no longer working at the big S.
Im kinda old at 39 so i cant progress as fast as I would like but I have gotten to a place where I can have fun on the majority of trails I ride, and I am old enough to know which trails I don't have to ride. I have had dozens of different bikes over the years, and after working at Speci shops from 2020-2023 I went through stumpy alloy and carbon and an epic evo before settling on a stumpy evo alloy that i have modified to hell: wrp yoke, cascade link, s5/s6 chain stay, 170 fork. I love the bike so much I sold every other bike I own and I am down to one singular bike.
I am not into competition or racing myself, but damn do i love to watch dh racing. A lot of what I am doing with my bike right now is trying to glean as much wisdom as I can from the world cup boys and girls to have the most fun possible on the descents. dream bike rn is a madonna v3, claymore, or dreadnaught. only bike I want to add to my quiver is an XC hardtail build up dummy light: the best gravel bike is a mountain bike, I say.
when im not riding im playing guitars, reading books, or watching youtubes.
a photo of a time i bikepacked wrong (it was only a couple miles to the campsite):
making oklahoma smash burgers the day we did 11 laps at campus:
My unit is doing fitness challenge in the Army so a few weeks ago I picked up a trek Hybrid. Quickly realized my area has way better mountain bike trails and hadn’t ridden once since 2005 probably! Today I purchased a 2011 Specialized Pitch Comp and am here looking to upgrade it and see what it’s limits are other than being 14 years old and having 26” tires
My current bikes - '97 Kona Lava Dome, owned from new. 2010'something Production Privee Shan 26 - repurposed for bikepacking. 2023 Ragley Big Al built up when CRC went down the pan with mostly Nukeproof kit. 2024 Boardman ADV 9.0 gravel bike. 2019 Specialized Kenevo emtb - mulleted. 2024 Specialized Levo S-Works emtb,. And my latest build, Stanton Switch9er FS Ti - now with Hunt Proven Trail carbon rims, not the NP Horizons in the pic...
Not Bailey. Her uncle.
Hello, I like Bikes, and I have to many. Going to sell a few. Just need one. Nor-Cal, BBQ is fun, Freeride and DH for the Win. Mostly ride Bay Area, Coast and some oddly good Deer Trails.
Howdy all,
Kyle from Canada here, Ontario specifically but will be back in the western mountains as soon as I retire in a couple years. Been back on the bikes, after an 18yr break due to career demands, since 2020 and went from 0 to 5 rigs in that timeframe, soon to be 6 next week 🤣 addiction what?
Currently Wrench in a Local shop, Build trails at our local Enduro/DH park, and ride as much as I can fit into my schedule. Big time gravity pig and glad to be here and share in the knowledge on the forums which seem a little more refined than over on binkpike.
Hey, I'm Matt been lurking on the team rumors thread for a few seasons now, then got sucked in by the tech thread and what bike companies are going to close soon thread, but never really felt any reason to post until recently. I ride in Michigan mostly but I have a bruise that's almost a year old now from Windrock
Hi, I'm Ben Corona CA, 36 years old. Been riding bikes since age 5. Rode mainly BMX till the age of 12 then MTBS ever since. Local trails are Troy Lee. Also ride a lot of sycamore canyon (Riverside) and Dog park (San Clemente). I've come to realize I don't have a lot of friends that ride anymore the older I get. My skill level/ risk has gone down due to mainly riding by myself. And I want to change that. So, if anyone is in my area hit me up.
just read through most of this thread and it really tugged at the ol' heart strings and had me sad that I didn't switch to MTB sooner haha! for a long time i thought I liked PB better than vital but over the years I realized that the content and the vibe was so much better here. more intelligent posting, better race coverage, etc.
My name is Sean and I live and ride in Santa Cruz where i work at a grocery store in the produce department. I have been a bike lover forever but there was a time when bmx bikes got too heavy and mountain bikes too complicated (and noisy, and sketchy.) I rode brakeless fixed gear in San Francisco before lucking into a job at Specialized doing bike and product graphics while I was still in art school.
Ended up dropping out of school and working full time at Speci and got into "gravel" waaaaay back in 2014. I had tried riding demos and glories and enduros, ridden at campus and northstar and mammoth but I didn't understand how mtb worked day to day. (edit: my friend convinced me to buy a single speed Sofa King hardtail back in 2010 but that thing was a bitch to climb and didn't really put the best mtb taste in my mouth...) Rode dj, bmx, track bikes, cyclocross bikes, and finally a big ol boat of a dirt tourer that slowly morphed into a rigid mtb. Finally got sick of crashing on features I knew a proper mtb would handle and got a hard tail, but by that point I was no longer working at the big S.
Im kinda old at 39 so i cant progress as fast as I would like but I have gotten to a place where I can have fun on the majority of trails I ride, and I am old enough to know which trails I don't have to ride. I have had dozens of different bikes over the years, and after working at Speci shops from 2020-2023 I went through stumpy alloy and carbon and an epic evo before settling on a stumpy evo alloy that i have modified to hell: wrp yoke, cascade link, s5/s6 chain stay, 170 fork. I love the bike so much I sold every other bike I own and I am down to one singular bike.
I am not into competition or racing myself, but damn do i love to watch dh racing. A lot of what I am doing with my bike right now is trying to glean as much wisdom as I can from the world cup boys and girls to have the most fun possible on the descents. dream bike rn is a madonna v3, claymore, or dreadnaught. only bike I want to add to my quiver is an XC hardtail build up dummy light: the best gravel bike is a mountain bike, I say.
when im not riding im playing guitars, reading books, or watching youtubes.
a photo of a time i bikepacked wrong (it was only a couple miles to the campsite):
making oklahoma smash burgers the day we did 11 laps at campus:
Name: Dan
My unit is doing fitness challenge in the Army so a few weeks ago I picked up a trek Hybrid. Quickly realized my area has way better mountain bike trails and hadn’t ridden once since 2005 probably! Today I purchased a 2011 Specialized Pitch Comp and am here looking to upgrade it and see what it’s limits are other than being 14 years old and having 26” tires
Hi - lurked for a while and here I am.
My current bikes - '97 Kona Lava Dome, owned from new. 2010'something Production Privee Shan 26 - repurposed for bikepacking. 2023 Ragley Big Al built up when CRC went down the pan with mostly Nukeproof kit. 2024 Boardman ADV 9.0 gravel bike. 2019 Specialized Kenevo emtb - mulleted. 2024 Specialized Levo S-Works emtb,. And my latest build, Stanton Switch9er FS Ti - now with Hunt Proven Trail carbon rims, not the NP Horizons in the pic...
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