Biking
 

i was wondering if anyone bikes in here at all. i Ride a MTB, i have a 2005 Kona Stuff. I almost did a 5 footer too flat on my bike yesterday. i did my run up and everything but my knees hurt to much! I mostly do drops. there is no Downhill action here but i wish there was. I am learning how to dirt jump as well. I have a different seat now and some other small things

Next season i am buying a new bike. i am going with a full suspension. maybe a 2006 kona STINKY. about 2300 dollars it will set me back.

The following photo is an old one of my bike


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...9/3911f696.jpg

Don't get me started mate..

I love Kona's!

I've got a Cannondale, (build it up myself) with chris king hubs, Hope disks, i had a Cook Bross cranckset, but i changed it for Roox with those canadian gears.. Toughest available for the money.. I used to bike alot from my 12-16th.. (about 160miles a week minimum)

I had a Klein attitude before, and sold it to get the cannondale..

I'm not a fan of rear suspensions though..

neither am i but i f i wanna keep biking i need a full suspension. i bike everyday but i popped my tire yesterday or the day befor. i am doing that 5 footer when i get my tire fixed. I am also going for like a 10-12 foot table :)

Cannondales are nice as well man

i do a little biking myself. mostly stick to bmx. not a really big fan of mountain bikes.

I have an old mongoose and an old trek, but haven't been Mountain biking in a few years. I wouldn't mind getting back into it, if I only had the time!

Serum, i need to get a full suspension next year, od you think the stinky is decent for the price? i think i am going for it but would like some opinions

I have A brand new Haro 8.2 jump bike, It has hayes hydraulic discs and a Marzocchi exr pro front fork, its pretty bad, I like jumping and freeride, to bad I dont have too much free time to ride,LOL, RC takes alot of my time!!!!!!!!!

Huffy rules! j/k

Five foot drop!? Sounds serious.
No biking for me, never been a big biker. But I skateboard. Altough the days of 5 foot drops, or 5 step stairs are definitely over for me. I hear you about your knees, for me it's the ankles. I'm a member of the 3-steps-and-less club. Wonder how long it will take and I'm in the 2-steps-and-less club.
But I keep going, having fun on flatland and low boxes and rails.

Enjoy biking

DAF

i use to skateboard but i always fell so i moved on to biking. i did a 6 set once. it was very fun

I bike only to supplement my busy outdoor activity/family schedule. So I'm not hardcore, I ride a fully suspended mountain bike (not top o'the line) and enjoy going wherever I please...even w/ my two year old in tow.

I do some mountain biking, but nothing serious (yet). I just have a Mongoose Pathfinder, which was the best bike I could find for under $250. Money for me is always cut short, so I wanted a bike that would perform for a low cost. This is a dual suspension bike, and it rides nicely. It soaks up everything I need it to. Now I just gotta get onto so more mountain bike-ish terrain!

My dad and I are starting to bike weekly. He rides a giant nrs 4

http://groups.msn.com/sneeck101/shoe...to&PhotoID=183

And I bought a giant xtc which i'm very pleased with

http://groups.msn.com/sneeck101/shoe...to&PhotoID=185

It is so much fun to speed down hill's on these thing's.

I love the speed factor. the wind in your face and all that good stuff. my tire had a "pinch flat" but it is all fixed up now

I have a Pacific mountain bike. I have been riding 1:30 to 3 hours EVERYDAY (I time myself). It is tones of fun but even more because I bring my mp3 player with me. Front and rear shocks, out of curiosity why dont you guys like rear suspenstion, because of the weight?

I was looking at upgrading to a specialize but it does not seem like it would really be worth the upgrade. I saw some Cannondales and thought they were really cool.

Do any of you guys have experience with derailers? The bike shop guy said they were going bad, so what are some decent ones? I have shammono 7SIS in the rear and dont know what I have in the front.

Thanx,
Ali

all i know is i am taking my front deraieur off because it always slips.

Rear suspension is above my budget(that giant xtc was 1400$ in the picture) and I can live without it. What I notice when cycling on my bike for a few run's and then on my dad's is that it soaks up allot of energy in the rear suspension. That's what bother's me allot on terrain you don't need rear suspension. 9 out of 10 times it's useless here in Holland.

I'd wait for upgrading to a specialized. They are really nice, but costy. Unless you got money to blow, stick with what work's for you.

Biking? Love it...been riding on and off road since around 1985...raced on road a couple years...have done a few mountain bike races...(did a couple last year, but got smoked, finished towards the back of the pack..), but I’m completely out of bike racing shape these days. Finally got a bike with front suspension last year, a 2003 cannondale F3000 left-over (I had been riding an old cannondale F700 that I built up when I was working in bike shops in a former life, had no suspension, had been riding that since about 94) I loved having suspension so much I got full suspension bike this year (a cannondale Prophet 2000) ..there are tons of other great brands of bikes, but I’ve always loved the cannondale and great luck with how they hold up.
But around here (northern New Jersey), full suspension (for me) is a huge plus...
Tons of technical, rocky, root infested trails, which, I love, but are so much easier with full suspension. It’s amazing how much how much stuff I can ride over now that I have a full suspension bike...climbing is so much easier for me with full suspension, not to mention how much faster you can get down the hills, almost too fast for this old man, LOL, The rear wheel really sticks to the ground. It’s funny, I’m an R/C newbie, but the short time I’ve been fooling around with my trucks suspension, made me understand my bikes’ suspension much better. Some places I ride, I just take the front suspension bike, other place it’s full suspension, just depends. Right now all this stable platform suspension technology on the higher end bikes helps to take out the pedal bob problem, and the full suspension bikes have gotten much lighter weight, these were always my big complains with suspension bikes. For anyone who is interested, at least around here, the ski area’s rent bikes in the summer if your considering if a full suspension bike is for you, and…they typically sell them at the end of each season, you can get some really good deals that way, if you don’t mind a used bike..just have to be careful buying used, like anything else. Sorry to ramble on,
This is my “other” hobby!!