how many of you guys and gals out there are into mountain biking? what kind of bikes do you have and where do you like to ride?


i have my 2001 gary fisher sugar 2 for poundin on the trails
also got a gt palomar rusty steel frame on slicks for ridin to class

anybody got any good or funny biking stories? a good one happened to me today, i was flying down a road and my crank locked up on me as i was pedaling really fast, i lost my balance, and i put body to pavement going about 25 miles an hour, on a straightaway with no traffic and in front of quite a few people i think the bike got brusied worse than me though!

anybody out there in the state college area? we can go ridin' sometime!


chris

 

I Mountian bike..not as much as I used to becasue I now livein Alabama and there aren't to many hills down here in the Plains of Auburn.

I got:
Specialized FSR XC....great bike full suspension
Homemade freeride bike...Old Trek Easton Pro Aluminum frame then I pieced it together with all the best parts I could get. ( I used to be a mechanic for Performance Bikes in VA)
Then I have a Performance house brand bike for rididng to class but someone stole my seat so I just walk now.

I have a story like yours...I was kinda freeriding or what ever you call in around Geroge Mason University back up in VA. I was gonna jump a small set of stairs put then as I approched I realzed I was coming at a bad angle so in my mind I decided not to just but my body had already preloaded and was going for it. So as I clear the stairs my body goes into a flatspin and i kinda bounce off my fore arm and handlebar and pedal...ripped the front hyraulic brake line out and spilled fluid everywhere and had a huge gash on my arm. This was just several hours before my Senior prom so I had to make a crazy bandage for the gash so I wouldn't bleed all over my tux. Still have the scar. It was all fun though.

JON

 

As my name implies, I ride a Yeti AS-R, I was big in to CC , but haven't been out much lately. I also have a KHS that I use as my urban assult bike. No good stories, other than the occasional broken bone, and a little tree rash.

 

I have two, a German Fisher and a Mongoose. I was riding home and crossed a set of pretty level surfaced rail road tracks. It had been raining so they were slick. When I crossed it my front tire shot out from under me, right in front of a passing car. I hit the ground pretty hard and was missed by the car. It turns out it was my friend, he was in tears that he had hit me and made me fall off. When he saw it was me he percked up a little. After awhile he calmed down. He was just so happy he got wet eyed again. Afew others I do have are to embarrasing to tell, something about downhilling to fast trying to push as hard as I could and hit a tree or wiped out, the usual.

CJ

 

I used to have a Cannondale 3.0 series, would ride down the hill behind the airport in Augusta, ME. It was all clay, and in the rain I kinda slipped and slid and hit the only tree on the side of the hill. Unfortunately nobody saw it, but the impact of hitting the tree, along with my feet being stuck in the cages, flipped me almost upright, so I wound up doing a superman halfway down the hill. I had never been so covered in mud in my life. Of course, to top it all off, on my way home, covered in green/gray clay that looked like crap, I happened to see a girl I went to school with that I liked. Damn. Then there was the time in FL with the same bike that I hit a mailbox.........
Jared

 

I've got an old Trek 800. I tried doing the "mountain" thing but would end up doing more walking than biking, so I stick to paved surfaces anymore and hike the trails...

My best (worst!) wreck was in a public park, was going way too fast and I think my left foot slipped off the pedal. Results were bike = scraped shifters, bent front and rear reflectors, bent rear rim; me = roadrashed everything, twisted ankle, chipped tooth, broken elbow; ruined sunglasses; and a huge crack down the front of my helmet. Man, am I glad I was wearing that...

 

GT LTS team full load full suspension.
Ride Vancouver's North Shore. Was going down an old
creekbed once and I still don't know what happened but
I ended up with a very large bruise on my hip as my bike
did an endo and landed on the seat. Broke the seat and the
post......

 

man that must have been quite a wreck to break the seat and the seat post:-staun


the only two endo's i have ever done were both accomplished while pedaling uphill. figure that one out!


chris

 

[updated:LAST EDITED ON 25-Nov-02 AT 12:45 PM (EST)]ohh yea, getusum.

i ride all the time, mainly to keep some sanity.....some sanity

all my bikes are specialized. 2001 fsr, 2000 allez, 99 rockhopper, 97 fsr ground control.

i have ridden most of the southern states and i have too many stories to tell.

i love it and i will never stop.

is that college station in texas you are talking about?

 

I had a Hoo Koo E Koo. But then i realized that i hated mountain biking and bought a Honda xr-400.

 

yeah, I gave up my mountain bike after my knees kept begging me to. Since then it has been a slew of Honda dirt bikes and now a Kawasaki KDX200. Much funner than my mountain bike ever was.

 

Used to race a nice diamondback ascent (all I could afford)

then I got a GT timberline when that bike got stolen


Now I ride a Kona Caldera. Very nice bike but its more of a tank then a race bike.


weighs 27lbs with the mazzarochi bomber fork on it but hey, its a nice ride.


Done lots of wipeouts I have totally scarred elbow, never broken a bone and I do every extreme sport I can.

One time I hit a 45degree angled dirt pile about 3' high from a backhoe.

well I had my brakes disengaged because I had been doing a 80KM ride and did not like the added friction of having them hooked up rims were kinda bad to if I recall.


anyway, I hit it did a tabletop. then when I brought the bike back down it was wobbly (I was in a construction zone) then when the wheel went I slid a good 15' my speedo said somewhere around 34km/h or so if I recall when I hit the thing (maybe faster I didn't get to see itJUST before I was getting myself ready to jump)

anyway after that side I had a nice hole in my arm blood pouring out all over the place in a pretty busy part of town, the whole way home ppl were stopping asking me if I needed a ride to the hospital, told them no I juts needed to go hom eand bleed a little LOL shouldof gotten stiches but I held it together and my mom helped me bandage it up.

Scar goes down every year but its still there and damn noticable


CK