Back in the day I had a green DeKerf team with a colour matched Judy and green ano ringlé skewers. I loved that bike more than life itself and it took my riding to new levels. One day I was JRA back to mountain highway on the baden powell on Fromme and hooked the lever of the rear skewer on a stout root, right at the top of one of those janky rocky sections and proceeded to have one of my scariest crashes as my bike came to a sudden halt and I supermanned off trail into the chunder. Didn't really get hurt but was spooked every time I rode past it afterwards.
In those days the only tool I carried was a 5mm allen key to drop my 425mm Syncros pro-post for descending. Loved that post and the matching 140mm Syncros cattleprod stem in an almost fetishistic way. Of course, I cut my Raceface flat bars down to the point where there was only enough room for the shifters, levers and grips (probably somewhere in the neighborhood of 450mm). Such good times but I'd never trade them for my current ride, a transition partol carbonium.
Jan. 17, 2018, 1:28 p.m. - Jonas Dodd
Back in the day I had a green DeKerf team with a colour matched Judy and green ano ringlé skewers. I loved that bike more than life itself and it took my riding to new levels. One day I was JRA back to mountain highway on the baden powell on Fromme and hooked the lever of the rear skewer on a stout root, right at the top of one of those janky rocky sections and proceeded to have one of my scariest crashes as my bike came to a sudden halt and I supermanned off trail into the chunder. Didn't really get hurt but was spooked every time I rode past it afterwards. In those days the only tool I carried was a 5mm allen key to drop my 425mm Syncros pro-post for descending. Loved that post and the matching 140mm Syncros cattleprod stem in an almost fetishistic way. Of course, I cut my Raceface flat bars down to the point where there was only enough room for the shifters, levers and grips (probably somewhere in the neighborhood of 450mm). Such good times but I'd never trade them for my current ride, a transition partol carbonium.