The 'Introduce Yourself Here' thread II

[Augustus]

Welcome chaps. You'll find this place a friendly and costly place.

Cam, love that Muddy Fox. Soooooo nearly bought one, but opted for the outgoing '87 model instead (all white / jam jar label decals).

Get that uploaded into reader's bikes.

Takes me right back.

 

[Lanesra]

Hi there am new

Will post up pics of my 99/00 Rockhopper A1 FSR Comp

 

[Lanesra]

Here she is

 

[Frank West]

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 quite the enthusiast back in the day I was never any good, and also kind of fat. Now I'm no longer fat, but still not very good yet.

Anyway, nice to make your acquaintance amorphous blob of people on the internets! Please remember it's okay to tell me if I'm being a moron, I get excited sometimes.

 

[Birdman]

hi Folks, as i've finally got round to registering on this site, I should say hello properly.

Been riding for ages, first read a copy of MBUK which had Dave Hemming riding a Rocky Mountain with an AMP rear end through bombholes, and been hooked since. Started off with a DB Ascent EX, owned various Oranges and currently mainly ride a Superlight.

Still have one of the old Orange frames, my original P7, which will become retro project 1, and my set of Pace Proclass forks in limited edition anno red which are crying out for a bike to be built around them

See you on the trails.

 

[Augustus]

Hey Birdman,

are you the birdman i rode the north downs with?

welcome.

 

[Birdman]

yep, the one and only.

Was out on the Surrey Hills a few weeks ago, and have turned the route we did into a real monster with some other loops on Pitch Hill.

 

[Easy_Rider]

Hey guys, been lurking for a few weeks and bought some stuff off the for sale thread, thought it time to introduce myself

I used to do a lot of XC in the early to mid 90's but drifted away towards cars later on. Still had a soft spot for bikes but never got round to doing anything about it, and I didn't like the way the scene had gone with downhill etc etc
I thought i was alone in liking the good old days of MTB's

Nice to have found you guys!

He's my current bike. It a bit of a mish mash. Frame originally bought by my brother off his good freind who was semi-pro. It had damage to it. We've added bits here n there over the years. I think its a Scepter Comp, with the Ti plate finish, but could be wrong, the stickers were lost many years ago.

 

[Chinn]

I've been looking for the 'right' place to read up on MTB stuff and surfed many of the other forums.

Its hard for me to imagine that what I ride is 'Old School'. I raced for about 8 years in the 90's and then got out when I got a 'real job' and got married. While I was out, so many things changed, I hardly recognized anything when I started riding again....

I'm lucky in that during all that time I raced, I also worked in a shop. So I worked on all of these great bikes when they were new. Thumbshifters are still great and cantis can be set to do the job right.

After surfing through this forum for a bit and reading some of the other advice I saw others get, I've decided to put my old race bike back together.

I had dissassembled it to put much of my gear on a newer frame (Specialized S-Works), but I quickly found that I really did not like the ride of that frame nearly as well as I like my old Ritchey.

So over the next month or so, I'll be putting back together my old Ritchey P-21.

I bought the frame in 97 used. It was 'Barney Purple' so I had it professionally re-sprayed in metalic green. Tom Ritchey sent a decal set out for it and I stickered it up right. I built it with the first high end Gripshift system that hit the market as well as a sweet Cook Bros crankset and XTR brake levers. For a fork, I used a white Manitou FS. It was the only fork I could find at the time with a 1" Aheadset steerer that was readily available.

I'm going to re-build it back to that original spec that I built it with.

 

[sinnett177]

Hello,

I'm Mark and i'd like to introduce myself. I've been away from mtbing for many years and last raced xc back in 1996. Since this time i've been enjoying twinshock motocross racing, racing 1979 Honda CR250's (Redrockets for those in the know).

I'm 29 years old now, married with one lad aged 7. Motocross racing was great but very expensive and lacking the freedom of mtbing as you can't just go riding when you want (travelling to tracks, hours of preparation etc.). So i've cashed in my twinshock mx bikes for a tidy profit and have started my first mtb restoration project, a 1992 alpinestars (see members bikes).

This site is fantastic, seeing all those old bikes is just great, some of my first mtb memories was watching these bikes hammering down the hill at Hawkstone Park in the inteval of the MX 500cc Grand Prix's, brave lads indeed. Today's bikes just don't compare IMO. Back then your mtb did everything, today you need a bike for every discipline. Plus like the twinshock motocross the bikes if anything will increase in value and not loose as much money as a modern one.

I greatly look forward to contributing in these forums.