{"id":586,"date":"2009-01-22T04:05:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-22T04:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/redrocksreview.com\/index.php\/2009\/01\/22\/bikes-from-my-past\/"},"modified":"2009-01-22T04:05:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-22T04:05:00","slug":"bikes-from-my-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redrocksreview.com\/index.php\/2009\/01\/22\/bikes-from-my-past\/","title":{"rendered":"Bikes from my past"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll skip freestyle bikes.<\/p>\n<p>Bike #1 1994 Kona AA<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_Jz4f840sc_c\/SXfxP0lDXQI\/AAAAAAAABZ0\/CaDjrJymRy0\/s1600-h\/hs-bike.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 289px; height: 400px;\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_Jz4f840sc_c\/SXfxP0lDXQI\/AAAAAAAABZ0\/CaDjrJymRy0\/s400\/hs-bike.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5293965141111692546\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>This was a full Alcoa Aluminum frame with a really sloping top tube, Marzocchi 45mm travel shock, sugino impact cranks, a ton of &#8220;joe murray&#8221; parts, and the weirdest thing was this gorilla nut style lock ring on the headset that I kept breaking.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_Jz4f840sc_c\/SXfyYUaZS9I\/AAAAAAAABZ8\/NizVGDKzksk\/s1600-h\/11.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 324px; height: 400px;\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_Jz4f840sc_c\/SXfyYUaZS9I\/AAAAAAAABZ8\/NizVGDKzksk\/s400\/11.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5293966386607508434\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>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.<\/p>\n<p>Bike #2 1996 Spooky Darkside<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_Jz4f840sc_c\/SXfzfl3xGsI\/AAAAAAAABaE\/bH0Knj8oP84\/s1600-h\/spooky.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 271px;\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_Jz4f840sc_c\/SXfzfl3xGsI\/AAAAAAAABaE\/bH0Knj8oP84\/s400\/spooky.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5293967611064818370\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>This bike was amazing. I rode it all the time, raced on it, jumped off tons of crap on campus on it,  &#8220;toured&#8221; on the c &amp; o canal on it.<\/p>\n<p>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 &#8211; amazing hub.<\/p>\n<p>A superb hard tail. Nothing finer.<\/p>\n<p>Tune in tomorrow for the next installment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Someone over on the iBob list started talking about all the bikes from their past, and that has prompted me to go down the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redrocksreview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redrocksreview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redrocksreview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redrocksreview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redrocksreview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redrocksreview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redrocksreview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redrocksreview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redrocksreview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}