This site needs more bike photos!

RAX

RAX

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Here is my new Giant Trance I picked up the other day on its first venture into the dirt. I think my years of hardtails are over. I (and my back) love the plush ride.

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Very nice.. I am not going to submit my bike shaped object to this thread, as it's a cheapo that I bought at a yard sale and I haven't had time to ride lately due to work.

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Very nice.. I am not going to submit my bike shaped object to this thread, as it's a cheapo that I bought at a years sale and I haven't had time to ride lately due to work.

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Cheap bikes are still bikes, and therefore fun. We love all bikes in this thread! As long as you like to ride it.
 
My Marin Palisades Trail, just a few random pics, I'll have to take some decent ones next time I ride lol. The second bike in the third pic is my brothers Giant Talon.

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Very cool.

I can probably count the Marins I've seen around here on one hand. Not a real popular bike in my area, but they look great!


Do you ride with your seat that low, or was that just for transport?
 
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I just built this up. 2014 Scott Scale 930 Carbon. The PO had picked up a stick and chipped/cracked the frame on a chain stay, I got it real cheap, had it repaired and built using parts from my old Karate Monkey.
 
Congrats on the frame mtnbike28, that's a really nice setup.

RAX, thanks man. Lol, I was waiting for someone to say something about the seat height. That was a little over a year ago, I really have no idea why it was that low, I think my brother in law had ridden it or something, he's short and its a large frame, I just didn't have a more recent pic.


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Very nice, I just picked up a BlackDiamond Overdrive Sport, have been out of the mountain biking thing since I moved from VA to FL in 2011. Since the wife and I have been traveling full-time the past year, I decided it was finally time to get a bike again.

Went with a hardtail 27.5 mostly so I can fit the kiddo's thule seat on the back.

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For the wife we picked up a DiamondBack women's Lux Sport
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Last November I finally, after almost two decades of wanting and randomly searching, I was able to score a Psycle Werks Wild Hare frame.... my old love of building and riding Mountain Bikes was reborn! After a couple months of tracking down all of the parts to complete the build I amassed enough parts to build 2 Wild hares and tracked down a 3rd frame. Bike #2 is almost complete.... I just need chainrings.... mind you these bikes hail from a bygone era of anodized machined metal bike porn so I had to hop in the ol DeLorean and take a trip back in time.... the maiden voyage made me remember why I fell in love with the ride. ....
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That's a score! I recall the days, over 30 years ago, when it was common to see and join some of the bike legends on the trails and back roads of Northern California where I used to live and routinely put 3000 miles +/- on the cyclo-cross and MTB per year. I have the same Ringle stem on my titanium Miyata MTB among other pieces of expensive lightweight 'stuff'... hand-laid carbon fiber, machined titanium and aluminum bits, all done by hand in little shops from Marin County to Santa Clara. It was a good time in the industry then, before the little shops got bought up big conglomerate manufacturers.
 
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That's a score! I recall the days, over 30 years ago, when it was common to see and join some of the bike legends on the trails and back roads of Northern California where I used to live and routinely put 3000 miles +/- on the cyclo-cross and MTB per year. I have the same Ringle stem on my titanium Miyata MTB among other pieces of expensive lightweight 'stuff'... hand-laid carbon fiber, machined titanium and aluminum bits, all done by hand in little shops from Marin County to Santa Clara. It was a good time in the industry then, before the little shops got bought up big conglomerate manufacturers.
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Lucky!!!
 
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I have run the whole range over the years... although never moved up to 29'r. A few years back I settled back into a steel hardtail, went singlespeed and will likely never go to anything else. This On One Summer Season has a slack 66 degree head angle and 140 fox forks and it just a pleasure to ride. I am not fast at all, but have a great time, especially when we point down hill.
 
A few bikes I used to own when I worked at the bike shop a number of years back.

Custom built budget Leader Frame Ultegra:


Fuji Team Pro ( Cat 5 and Cat 4 racer with a different wheelset) Ultegra


Custom built Performance Bike Access XCL frame SRAM X.9/ X.0


Fuji Altamira 3.0 105 (my current and only bike now)
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Yuman Desert Rat said:
Last November I finally, after almost two decades of wanting and randomly searching, I was able to score a Psycle Werks Wild Hare frame.... my old love of building and riding Mountain Bikes was reborn! After a couple months of tracking down all of the parts to complete the build I amassed enough parts to build 2 Wild hares and tracked down a 3rd frame. Bike #2 is almost complete.... I just need chainrings.... mind you these bikes hail from a bygone era of anodized machined metal bike porn so I had to hop in the ol DeLorean and take a trip back in time.... the maiden voyage made me remember why I fell in love with the ride. ....
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That thing is WILD!


Glad to see we're getting some bike photos in this thread!
 
This is my favorite bike and just lost 2 pounds of rotating mass by going with a carbon wheel set.
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