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I just found this thread and I think it deserves a restart.
So I'll be cheeky and post my list:
1) Who are you ?
Jamis Diablo a.k.a. Jeroen
2) When did you start mountainbiking ?
1991
3) What was your first mountainbike ?
The good old Batavus 'Dutch Steel Is For Real' Buster
4) What do you have in your pockets right now ?
4,90 Euros, car keys and paracetamol
5) What is your favorite mountainbike ?
My Jamis Diablo 1998
6) What's your most hated chore on the household chore list ?
Checking if the maid has done here work
7) What bike would you buy if money was no object ?
Jones custom
8 ) Name one thing that not many people know about you ?
I'm an alien
9) What is your favorite bikepart ?
Frame
10) Which bike (brand) is overrated according to your own humble opinion ?
I don't mind wat other people like or dislike, I respect everbody's choice
11) If you could live anywhere in the world, where would that be ?
New Sealand
12) If you could go on a road trip with any person (dead or alive), who would you choose and where would you go ?
With God creating earth
13) What is you next bike going to be ?
Good looking
14) Which bike(part) do you regret selling
None
15) Do you think it is cruel that there is an "S" in the word lisp?
Ssssssssure
16) (make up your own question for the next person in line)
Why the hell do you like Jamis?
I would like to ask Makster to be next (pm on it's way)
So I'll be cheeky and post my list:
1) Who are you ?
Jamis Diablo a.k.a. Jeroen
2) When did you start mountainbiking ?
1991
3) What was your first mountainbike ?
The good old Batavus 'Dutch Steel Is For Real' Buster
4) What do you have in your pockets right now ?
4,90 Euros, car keys and paracetamol
5) What is your favorite mountainbike ?
My Jamis Diablo 1998
6) What's your most hated chore on the household chore list ?
Checking if the maid has done here work
7) What bike would you buy if money was no object ?
Jones custom
8 ) Name one thing that not many people know about you ?
I'm an alien
9) What is your favorite bikepart ?
Frame
10) Which bike (brand) is overrated according to your own humble opinion ?
I don't mind wat other people like or dislike, I respect everbody's choice
11) If you could live anywhere in the world, where would that be ?
New Sealand
12) If you could go on a road trip with any person (dead or alive), who would you choose and where would you go ?
With God creating earth
13) What is you next bike going to be ?
Good looking
14) Which bike(part) do you regret selling
None
15) Do you think it is cruel that there is an "S" in the word lisp?
Ssssssssure
16) (make up your own question for the next person in line)
Why the hell do you like Jamis?
I would like to ask Makster to be next (pm on it's way)
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Hereby you are invited as I was the last one.
1) Who are you ?
chris longbone aka longun
2) When did you start mountainbiking ?
christmas 1990
3) What was your first mountainbike ?
apollo atomic, the triple triangle one....
4) What do you have in your pockets right now ?
£3 and my keys
5) What is your favorite mountainbike ?
pace rc100
6) What's your most hated chore on the household chore list ?
building maintainance and hoovering
7) What bike would you buy if money was no object ?
merlin ti with m900 xtr, smoke/darts on 231's, pace rc35's and control tech finishing kit.....modern?? costom yates i rek
8 ) Name one thing that not many people know about you ?
errrrm, i went to watch a friend skydive................and ended up jumping myself, just for shits and giggles! best fun ever, but the wife n daughter were on holidays abroad and didnt find out till they got home haha
9) What is you favorite bikepart ?
tyres
10) Which bike (brand) is overrated according to your own humble opinion ?
giant
11) If you could live anywhere in the world, where would that be ?
plymouth again
12) If you could go on a road trip with any person (dead or alive), who would you choose and where would you go ?
charlie kelly and "that" mountain where it all began!
13) What is you next bike going to be ?
currently stripping a 94 orange p7
14) Which bike(part) do you regret selling
tioga revolver for £5 years ago ( need the bearing cups now haha)
15) Do you think it is cruel that there is an "S" in the word lisp?
nope
16) (make up your own question for the next person in line)
if retrobiking hadnt taken over your life and wallet, what else would you spend your hard earned on??
I would like to ask Spudly to be the next (pm on it's way)
chris longbone aka longun
2) When did you start mountainbiking ?
christmas 1990
3) What was your first mountainbike ?
apollo atomic, the triple triangle one....
4) What do you have in your pockets right now ?
£3 and my keys
5) What is your favorite mountainbike ?
pace rc100
6) What's your most hated chore on the household chore list ?
building maintainance and hoovering
7) What bike would you buy if money was no object ?
merlin ti with m900 xtr, smoke/darts on 231's, pace rc35's and control tech finishing kit.....modern?? costom yates i rek
8 ) Name one thing that not many people know about you ?
errrrm, i went to watch a friend skydive................and ended up jumping myself, just for shits and giggles! best fun ever, but the wife n daughter were on holidays abroad and didnt find out till they got home haha
9) What is you favorite bikepart ?
tyres
10) Which bike (brand) is overrated according to your own humble opinion ?
giant
11) If you could live anywhere in the world, where would that be ?
plymouth again
12) If you could go on a road trip with any person (dead or alive), who would you choose and where would you go ?
charlie kelly and "that" mountain where it all began!
13) What is you next bike going to be ?
currently stripping a 94 orange p7
14) Which bike(part) do you regret selling
tioga revolver for £5 years ago ( need the bearing cups now haha)
15) Do you think it is cruel that there is an "S" in the word lisp?
nope
16) (make up your own question for the next person in line)
if retrobiking hadnt taken over your life and wallet, what else would you spend your hard earned on??
I would like to ask Spudly to be the next (pm on it's way)
Cheers for the nomination Longy..
Here goes.....
1) Who are you ?
John Paddock aka Spudly
2) When did you start mountainbiking ?
When i was around ten years old
3) What was your first mountainbike ?
A 16" Townsend Slalom with purple frame, pink forks and full sis!
4) What do you have in your pockets right now ?
The keys to my (old/new) V6 vectra and a spoke key.
5) What is your favorite mountainbike ?
Torn between my '98 Kona Caldera and my '97 Marin Rift Zone
6) What's your most hated chore on the household chore list ?
Washing up!
7) What bike would you buy if money was no object ?
merlin ti with m900 xtr (ill copy Longy on that one as he has good taste)
8 ) Name one thing that not many people know about you ?
There is only really one thing i can think of that not many people know but unfortunately i cant divulge it on here...
9) What is you favorite bikepart ?
M950 rear mech on the Caldera.
10) Which bike (brand) is overrated according to your own humble opinion ?
Only one that stands out to me is Klien (lol)
11) If you could live anywhere in the world, where would that be ?
I have humble tastes so id probably go for North Yorkshire
12) If you could go on a road trip with any person (dead or alive), who would you choose and where would you go ?
Jason McRoy on the trails where 'Dirt' was filmed up near Robin Hoods Bay/Whitby area!
13) What is you next bike going to be ?
Dont know as yet, kind of running out of spaces in the house to store them at the mo lol
14) Which bike(part) do you regret selling
The wheelset i had built up in 1997 by my lbs, brand new xt hubs, double butted spokes with mavic d521 rims, dont even know who i sold them to or where they went!
15) Do you think it is cruel that there is an "S" in the word lisp?
nope
16) (make up your own question for the next person in line)
if retrobiking hadnt taken over your life and wallet, what else would you spend your hard earned on??
Cars, which is a vice i tried to get out of by selling my 16v Vauxhall Nova, and 8 months later im right back again with a tickled up vectra V6 SRi estate hahaha!
Ill nominate ChrisV40 next, pm on its way...
Question number 16 to Chris..
If you hadnt drifted out of mountain biking years ago, do you think you would still be at it only with a stable full of modern tat and loving it as much..?
Here goes.....
1) Who are you ?
John Paddock aka Spudly
2) When did you start mountainbiking ?
When i was around ten years old
3) What was your first mountainbike ?
A 16" Townsend Slalom with purple frame, pink forks and full sis!
4) What do you have in your pockets right now ?
The keys to my (old/new) V6 vectra and a spoke key.
5) What is your favorite mountainbike ?
Torn between my '98 Kona Caldera and my '97 Marin Rift Zone
6) What's your most hated chore on the household chore list ?
Washing up!
7) What bike would you buy if money was no object ?
merlin ti with m900 xtr (ill copy Longy on that one as he has good taste)
8 ) Name one thing that not many people know about you ?
There is only really one thing i can think of that not many people know but unfortunately i cant divulge it on here...
9) What is you favorite bikepart ?
M950 rear mech on the Caldera.
10) Which bike (brand) is overrated according to your own humble opinion ?
Only one that stands out to me is Klien (lol)
11) If you could live anywhere in the world, where would that be ?
I have humble tastes so id probably go for North Yorkshire
12) If you could go on a road trip with any person (dead or alive), who would you choose and where would you go ?
Jason McRoy on the trails where 'Dirt' was filmed up near Robin Hoods Bay/Whitby area!
13) What is you next bike going to be ?
Dont know as yet, kind of running out of spaces in the house to store them at the mo lol
14) Which bike(part) do you regret selling
The wheelset i had built up in 1997 by my lbs, brand new xt hubs, double butted spokes with mavic d521 rims, dont even know who i sold them to or where they went!
15) Do you think it is cruel that there is an "S" in the word lisp?
nope
16) (make up your own question for the next person in line)
if retrobiking hadnt taken over your life and wallet, what else would you spend your hard earned on??
Cars, which is a vice i tried to get out of by selling my 16v Vauxhall Nova, and 8 months later im right back again with a tickled up vectra V6 SRi estate hahaha!
Ill nominate ChrisV40 next, pm on its way...
Question number 16 to Chris..
If you hadnt drifted out of mountain biking years ago, do you think you would still be at it only with a stable full of modern tat and loving it as much..?
