jumping bikes ftw!! did a little of that today, but the trails were a little tight. My bike as of today

 

salvator, what's the i-drive all about? I remember when GT came out with it but I never really understood it...

 

i actually have no idea. my dad bought an i-drive 2.0 in 2001 or something, but a year later the frame broke, so they sent him the 1.0 frame.
I'm not sure whats so special about the bike. its cool and it works well lol

 

I think it's supposed to cancel out some of the ''pump'' loss when riding a full suspension.

 

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the bottom bracket has the rotating thing in it, so when the suspension compresses, your crank axis stays on a level plane. You gotta feel it to understand i guess. I think theyre cool, i wonder why they disappeared?

 

bump.

 

Here are some crappy pics.

My Salsa La Cruz and a brief experiment with 29er tires.


This is an older pic of my commute setup


I don't have any recent pics of my mountain bike. This is all I could find.

 

custom aluminum track frame, built by Oscar Camarena



Now has completely different almost everything - got rid of the stupid Hed3 wheel and the stupider deep-v wheel. Now running the following, and I'll try to get pix in the near future:

-Paul Components track hubs - black rear, green front
-32H DT Swiss RR 1.1 rims - black
-Truvativ Omnium cranks - black
-Truvativ Omnium chainring - 49T/black
-Cadence doublestraps - grey
-RaceFace carbon handlebar
-Oury grips - clear
-Thomson seatpost - black
-Thomson stem - black
-Phil Wood cog - 17T/polished
-KMC Rainbow chain

I built the wheels and put it all together. This is a shot of me at my last bike shop gig before I finished school and got a 'real' job. I miss it, but after building 8-10 wheelsets per week, my fingers don't miss it.

 

Bike Biz?

 

nekoball - you still work @ genentech? the gRide water bottle caught my eye.

and hotdamn do you have some beauties lined up there!

 

my current rig - canno six carbon 1



my back-up/go-to rig - canno r900 si



i still miss my granny!

 

Damn, you all had/have such cool bikes...when I was a kid it was all about my blue Raleigh Chopper...a lot of the kids in the neighborhood had them...Jees I'm old

 

my marin hamilton 29er just got stolen at laney college...

 

Yup. Worked in bike shops for ~10 yrs.