Do some maintenance on Saturday and they'd spin the lifts for you on Sunday.
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tattoo on inside of thigh next to where disappeared ball is before surgery...give the surgery staff something to laugh at...
They'd do a pre season work weekend to clear trails.
Welp, power just went out
I wasn't riding bikes yet then.
gonna figure out if a snowshoe opening weekend is in the cards...memorial day
I got my first MTB in 1986 after riding a BMX on trails and in the woods for a few years.
Ditto. Born in '86 (35), got my first real mtb from a bike store in 1998/1999 I think it was. Like @Westy , tooled around in the woods on a BMX bike through middle school before I knew mountain bikes were a thing.
I've been seriously mountain biking for 23 or 24 years of my life. Which is crazy to think about sometimes.
I wanna say 1997/1998 for me. I was busy shredding singletrack on a Royce Union from Walmart. I realized I needed a real MTB when mid-downhill the quill stem rotated inside the steerer, pitching me OTB into the rocks and roots. Man did I get fucked up in that crash.
Got a job bagging groceries, saved all my money, and got a Trek 7000 the following year.
Got a job bagging groceries, saved all my money, and got a Trek 7000 the following year.
It was 96 for me when I got my first proper mtb. Bianchi lynx. Rigid steel, 7 speed with a triple and canti brakes. When I was 15, I ordered my first set of clipless pedals and shoes through the LBS, 98 I believe. My parents were already tired of driving me to the LBS, so I rode there myself (I think it was close to 10 miles each way) to get them installed once they were in. Riding them home for the first time was a real trial by fire. I think I only fell once or twice.
Edit: these were my first clipless shoes. With the red shimano DX platform pedals
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Good luck getting a BMX or MTB behind the iron curtain in 1986. I was not allowed outside that year anyway.I got my first MTB in 1986 after riding a BMX on trails and in the woods for a few years.
I also get a comment almost every time I go to REI with the age of my membership. My friends and I rode our bikes there in 6th or 7th grade and signed up.
I wasn't allowed to go to a store without an adult because my parents were afraid satanists would kidnap me. However I was allowed to disappear into the woods with bikes, gasoline, guns and explore a wide array of mayhem. Actually the parents weren't aware of the mayhem and somehow believed the backyard caught fire from lightning and not experiments with home made fireworks.
What's ironic, I think kids these days are in far more danger inside, with the innernet and predaphiles and whatot.
Not that a good old-fashioned windowless white van kidnapping is impossible.
Not that a good old-fashioned windowless white van kidnapping is impossible.
Funny, around that time I got my first MTB as well. I did ride a 24" 3-spd internal geared hub bike through the woods before that.I got my first MTB in 1986 after riding a BMX on trails and in the woods for a few years.
I been bunny hopping with flat pedals since I was 12. Literally 2/3 of my life has been focused on shredding bikes.
The joke was that lazlo used to roll a Boulder down the mountain and tape the path it made... wasn’t far off from the truth it seemed. I did my fair share of work at platty but I also scored a free pass at highland for working on eastern hemlock. Maiden voyage tho... fuck that trail. Threshold had its merits
Chernobly?
Yep.
Suxx0rz
Wait did you correct my purposeful misspelling of Chernobyl in your quote? Or am I too many weird beers deep already
from the age of about 9-15 my parents let my brothers and I ride our bikes 2 or 3 miles to this dump on the side of the highway....they still make great pizza...
Also thinking about riding bikes with woody around 130 tomorrow. What’s your plan?
Si. Chernobly sounds really weird to my slavic ears. And it really isn't a fun topic back in my country, we lost a bunch of people to cancer that is believed to be connected to the disaster.
I would love to but can't, wifey will want to be outdoor in the afternoon. I am riding Millerica at 8AM, wanna join?
rode le bike in le woods a bit. someone turned on the heat. it was 85+ freedoms, and humid since it rained the past few days. fun was had despite this. stopped by a buddy's shop on the way home and did a little derailleur tuneup. he gave me a beer too. homemade pizzas now.
Trying to decide if I should bother with a crank swap before riding in the am. Nothing wrong with the cranks on the bike right now.
84-86 is when I got my first Mt bike Rigid Fisher Hoo Koo E KooI got my first MTB in 1986 after riding a BMX on trails and in the woods for a few years.
'91 Giant ATX-760 full rigid. Beat the shit out of that (and myself) for a few years...
'92, Peugeot rigid, 3x7 Deore I think.
Y'all should be riding like gods with 30 years of experience under your belts.
At the point where 38 years of crashes are having a bigger impact than the experience.