Show off your Mountain Bike!!!

San Ysidro/White Mesa:


Placitas:

 

Some old pics looking down on my DB ...............since 1994, still jams, rode it last week, full XT dual control 3x9 26er. Rock solid, light & dependable low maintenance tank. FS with Post Modern suspension seatpost, lol. It does help with aluminum hardtail.

 

Holy foot-long stems, Batman! That thing has to be really twitchy.

 

Nope, not a bit.......actually it has shorter one on it now. Think pics were of a 120 I had laying around to put bike together all silver with parts on hand but it now it is sporting a 110mm or 100mm Shimano Pro one. On older frames without slack geometry I likes having the bars over fork arch still behind front axle and bars right over axle when crouched on pedals flowing along. Stem length to make that happen and haven't had any krazy twitchin or endo prone action from it. Don't like my knees anywhere close to bars either and adjust seat back on post and/or stem length or both to make fit comfortable. If anything I'd rather be stretched a bit where arm/torso angle is a smidge over 90. Anything less than 90 bugs me. Also think the camera angle and lens makes it look worse than it was too.

Not quite as crazy looking from this angle with normal camera lens.............

 

Pretty sure I put that same Azonic stem on my first Trek mountain bike

 

Here's pic of the Shimano stem, shorter and steeper angle (or not flipped upside down,lol) with fatter lower rise bars.........no twitch

 

Very cool line-up! My first mountain bike had a ridiculously stem. It made me feel like I was carrying too much weight forward.

 

That's 1/3 of the offroad ones and have same number of pavement ones

 

Here are my twins of fun!

 

Time for crispy mornin blast.......off and rollin!

 

Sweet! Rekons are my favorite Maxxis tires, but I still prefer the Bontrager XR4.

 

Dual swing out with bike rack.

Decided against buying parts and trying to come up with something, so I just bought a rocky mounts add on rack and welded to that. Probably not much more expensive, and was way easier to build.









Now I just need to get away from the snow and get a Moab weekend in.

 

2-wheeled non-motorized hijynx and shenaniganery outbreak this morning............zero victims

 

Continued my streak of cycling this weekend, I'm up to 6 weeks straight! Although I'll have to break it next week since I'm going out of town

 

Nice Ride.. Where you at? altadena or azusa ?

 

AltaDena/Pasadena, This was taken from the Brown Mountain Saddle.

 

There's lots of nice bikes in this thread but there's nothing wrong with a Marlin as a beginner bike. The best bike is one that gets ridden.

 

Nice man... I wanna get out to Mt Wilson a some point

 

I've done some riding up there. If you want to go, let me know, we can ride.

 

Down man, maybe sometime in Dec. Pretty booked up till after Thanksgiving.