Here's a fun one. What was the first mountain bike you owned? Second bike?

When I was 14/15- Bright Orange Norco bigfoot.

18 yrs saved up all summer Raw chromo Off road toad. Still wish I had that one....

Diamondback Ascent EX, cantis, rigid, green splatter over black, very second hand.  Gave it away after hanging on way too long, have seen it around town as a commuter. 

Then a Crescent Brimer, DX v brakes (red, still got them), RS Indy C, STX / LX drivetrain. Been rebuilt so many times as second Hardtail / commuter, but currently just the frame sitting. 

Adult lego rules.

I started with a very early 90s Schwinn High Sierra and then went to one of the first Aluminum bikes - some type of Concorde.

1992 Giant ATX 660 Bought it new , had a 50mm RST fork.

Haven't been riding for anywhere near as long as most of you, so my lineage is very short.

Trek Remedy (2010) thinking I'd never ride the bike park.  Rode the bike park and sold it within three months of buying it and replaced it with a 951 that I snapped, then went Wilson twice then YT twice.

86 Marin Bearvalley I still ride it around town mostly to the bar, it rides great no hands

second bike was a gary fisher Z2

Posted by: DemonMike

1992 Giant ATX 660 Bought it new , had a 50mm RST fork.

Did you buy it at High Gear??

That’s funny, mine was an 89 Marin Eldridge. That bike is long since gone. Second was a Brodie Brute I got from The Bike Shop. I think it was 04 or 05. By the time I was done with it, it was taxi cab yellow with dual crown Mr T’s and a 24” double track on the back and Hayes nine’s. Those were the days.

1997 Kona Kilauea SE with Marzocchi Z2 BAM was the first bike I bought. First bike I spent any time on (a friend lent it to me for awhile) was a 1994 Rocky Mountain Equipe with a Quadra 10 fork. Second bike was a 1999 Klein Mantra Race with a SID 100. Back when carbon wasnt even really a thing for bikes, they were making some crazy shapes for their frames.  Long live the URT!

1994 KHS Comp.Blue with 21 speeds and purple bar ends.  And v-brakes made better with a purple anodised brake booster I won at a sprockids race. Panaracer smoke tires.

Posted by: T-mack

Posted by: DemonMike

1992 Giant ATX 660 Bought it new , had a 50mm RST fork.

Did you buy it at High Gear??

No I lived in North Burnaby . Bought it from Sharpy,s on Hastings.

First proper one Trek 830 fully rigid, as I built many frankenstein versions before.

U-brake below the chainstay. Bent the forks twice. Until I moved to an orange clockwork with a Girvin Flexi Stem.

1984 Ritchey Timberline. Jacob pulled it down off the hook for me. Couple three paint jobs later it hangs unused in my brothers garage in P.T.

Had a Dekerff built Off Road Toad. Took it to that plating place at 5/6/7 and Quebec and asked them to dip the rear dropouts in the bath, feathering up the stays. Went get it, they'd dunked the whole fucking frame, cantis, b/b, headtube unpluged..........uuuuuuuuuuuhh!

Posted by: FLATCH

That’s funny, mine was an 89 Marin Eldridge. That bike is long since gone. Second was a Brodie Brute I got from The Bike Shop. I think it was 04 or 05. By the time I was done with it, it was taxi cab yellow with dual crown Mr T’s and a 24” double track on the back and Hayes nine’s. Those were the days.

Mine was a used 1990 Marine Eldridge Grade. Horrendous white splatter paint job. Neighbor painted it Ford Blue along with his truck. Rode the wheels off that thing.

Next bike was a 2001 RM Slayer. In retrospect an amazingly poor bike with horrid components. Loved every moment on it.