Someone over on the iBob list started talking about all the bikes from their past, and that has prompted me to go down the list of bikes I have owned since I started riding.
I’ll skip freestyle bikes.
Bike #1 1994 Kona AA
This was a full Alcoa Aluminum frame with a really sloping top tube, Marzocchi 45mm travel shock, sugino impact cranks, a ton of “joe murray” parts, and the weirdest thing was this gorilla nut style lock ring on the headset that I kept breaking.
I rode this bike for 3 years until I got my Spooky Darkside. I had no reason to get rid of it, except that the darkside was made by spooky, a straight edge bike company.
Bike #2 1996 Spooky Darkside
This bike was amazing. I rode it all the time, raced on it, jumped off tons of crap on campus on it, “toured” on the c & o canal on it.
It had a 2.8 pound frame, really high bottom bracket, steep geometry and the manitou fork with englund air cartridges in it. XTR V-Brakes, Cooks Cranks, Cooks Ti BB, Bontrager 118 Ti bars, syncros seat post, SDG ARC saddle, Tioga hub that used straight pull spokes and cartridge bearings – amazing hub.
A superb hard tail. Nothing finer.
Tune in tomorrow for the next installment.