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Tossed my '94 Rockhopper Ultra into the back of a garbage truck just because the stupid recall LX crank snapped in half and I was too broke to replace it. Then didn't ride much but commutes for five years because the progressively more expensive bikes I kept buying all felt dull and wooden by...

Starbike/Wendler Hydraulic V-brakes. Note that while my German isn't perfect, that page seems to be a bunch of people giving these lukewarm reviews even though they only paid 20-50 euros a set brand new. Edit: apparently the levers have 3mm of play in every direction. Sorry I'm obsessing...

It's the threads. My buddy's got an old Rockhopper on its original Ground Control front tire (scary, I know) and it's got big old rectangular blocks running perpendicular to the direction of travel. Makes a Nobby Nic look and sound like a semi-slick.

The anguished roar of a Maillard Helicomatic close to biting it. Okay just every Maillard Helicomatic. Biopace-induced knee-pops. Magura brake boosters gouging tires. Causing chain rub on both sides of a single cog before nailing it down on non-indexed downtube shifters.

Yeah I'm 6'4" as well and while my 22" Trek 4500 gives me a nice ideal pedalling position it's also supremely dull to ride, so you end up never even trying to go fast. Not to mention that when you do try you find it weighs about as much as a compact saloon.

(Outhouse Records/2008) Rating: 8.7 Pitchfork recommends

€175. It had been sitting in some guy's garage as a half-done project since 1999 or so. Not quite a steal, but not half bad either considering how few parts need swapping. Kind of gave up on the ratrod look after I took a spraycan to the included (too short!) rigid fork and it turned out...

He had a set of <1.3 width tires on that would literally jump off the rims of their own volition and run away at the first sign of mud.

Hey, bought this off ebay a week ago for cheapness related reasons. And whaddyaknow, it actually rides pretty decent now that it's had a bit of a messing with! Spent all day yesterday re-introducing her to singletrack and the only thing to fall off was me (first time SPD-er..). I'm the...

I happened to be behind a guy on a sweet-looking powder blue ON-ONE ss with very skinny tires the other day and.. Well, he was pedalling like a maniac and constantly out of his seat while I cruised along comfortably on my junkheap 24-speed, knobblies and all. What's the point of...

Uh, yeah, kind of late introducing myself I guess. I'm from the Netherlands, 23 years old and used to be pretty into mountainbiking about eight years ago. I got sidetracked with scooters and cars for awhile but now I'm BACK, and this time I'VE GOT DISPOSABLE INCOME! Note that while I was...

Guys, I picked up a '96 Stumpy Comp FS off the 'bay. Mechanically it's pretty rocking but at some point during its life some idiot sprayed the rear end bright yellow (front end is stock dark blue), added S-Works decals and worst of all, airbrushed a bunch of most unmanly stars on the seatstays...

It's a '97 model, I think. Bikepedia doesn't list any S-Works models for '96. I know this because I recently bought a mystery dark blue Stumpy with both S-Works and Stumpjumper decals, which turned out to be a regular old '96 Stumphumper Comp FS :evil:.

Just last night I had to saw off some handlebars to get my junk off past a seized-on bar-end. The cut ended up sort of rough due to my not even owning a proper hacksaw, and I ended up sliiiightly bending a HS-33 lever open-SNAP! RUUUUAAAAAARRRGGGGH Also transplanting a crown race is just...

Rock Shox Indy SL Here's a huge picture of some bloc-mtb rocking one. Edit: Marzocchi did a golden bomber in 2005, if that counts.

Specialized sell their own little bottles of touch-up paint, maybe there's still some '99 S-works red lying around at a local dealer? Otherwise, nail polish.

First hairspray for the grips and now a drier to get rid of scuffy decals? Sounds like there could be some economy of scale in combination hair salon/bike shop. Just think, you could sell fixies and give kids asymmetrical cuts covering their eyes, trim the UNIX beards of mountainbikers while...