MOUNTAIN BIKING
Me doing a jump at Glentress Forest.
I really just put this page here so I'd have somewhere to post this pic :P
I love mountain biking and have been riding since I was about 16. I started with an ex-hire Trek 930 that my mum and dad bought me, and upgraded it bit by bit, until eventually, there wasn't a single original part left. I finally gave in and got disc brakes last year, when my old non-disc wheels wore out. Once I had discs I was able to get an Orange Sub-5 frame on Ebay and go full suspension :-) Unfortunately my 200lbs of chaos were too much for it and the swingarm cracked, but I got the funnest season of riding out of it first. Hardtails are no fun any more and I'm currently in negotiations to buy an '04 Kona Stinky frame as a replacement. So now I can break my stinky rear end loose on the trails, whee!
I don't currently own a car, so I use my bike a lot for commuting as well as for fun. Not that commuting can't be fun, when there's a skatepark on the route to work :-)
Video000.3gp Trying to use a camera phone as a bike cam at Carron Valley's fun park, it falls off :(
Random list of bikes and frames I've owned:
- Some Diamond Back thingy that got stolen
- Trek 930
- Kona Muni-Mula frame only (broke)
- KHE Beater BMX, pimp'd with Profile cranks (unbreakable but nearly broke me)
- On-One Inbred frame only (tre cool, radiates underground cred)
- Orange Sub-5 (ultra cool, broke)
Here are some links to give another excuse for this page to be here...
Carron Valley Development Group are building trails in a forest near me. I shovelled mud and carted rocks with them on and off for about six months.
How you gonna get to the trails without a car, beatch? Bikebus is the answer!
Mountain biking is just BMX with bigger wheels, no foam pad thing on your handlebars (but we all took those off anyway) and all the parts cost twice as much.
Scotland's finest MTB trails.
Scotland's 7 next finest MTB trails ;)
Bikes I'd love to try one day
- Recumbent
- 600 Watt electric scooter
- Specialized Big Hit :D
- 69er (MTB with one 26" wheel and one 29")
- Tall bike (on the A-line at Whistler: NOT)
- Pedal powered aircraft
- That hydrofoil water bike that you propel by jumping up and down
- OK this is getting silly.
Bikes I don't want to try
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