Are you half asian too? We're more alike than I'm comfortable thinking about.Bought my Yeti frames on closeout sales.
Bought my Honzo Ti on closeout sales.
Bought my Slash second hand.
Stumpy S-Works was an ex-demo 2014 that then got a warranty on it when the seat tube cracked.
Honzo ST was bought frame only out of the US in a sale.
Calm your farm Mr Poodle I haven't bought anything yet ! Saving my pennies, but I did use some change to buy some used bits to maintain my HT.
I left my job in a bike shop around the time OCLV was new, heard that they lost some of their ride quality within a year or so. I take it that issue is long gone..
Damn it man! I'm getting savage blue here. You're such a tease!
Been soaking up all the info I can, and now leaning towards building a bike rather than buying a complete bike. I got sick of looking for a good s/h fork for my HT so I bought an X-Fusion Trace and nek minnit....a nice Rockshox SID pops up here on RB. So I bought that and put it on the HT and now have an extra, new fork to build a bike around. Yay ! My want list has grown to include a Trail oriented HT as well as a Trail FS bike.
You think that was fun? Wait till you try an ebike.
In the fullness of time...I tend to overthink stuff and I'm accumulating funds so by the end of the year I'll have worked through both and be ready to squeeze the trigger.
I don't like heavy bikes so ebikes are a bit of a turn off. LBS has some for demo this week so I might give one a go just for shits and giggles but am not considering buying one. Never say never and all that but nah.
do a sick carnt ya burnout
You don't ride an ebike, an ebike rides you.
Get a Nicolai.
Call me a pus$y if you will but I learned the hard way that Transitions are heavy AF even if you go carbon. Yeah, they could probably take a shot from an Abrams and still ride it off but man, they're heavy!