My first mountain bike was a 1998 Specialized FSR Ground Control Comp...loved it rode it everywhere from the local trails in Castle Hill, then onto The Oakes, Anderson's and other trails in the mountains, downhill at Lithgow, Oxy and even Thredbo. Over time it got every mod known to man...BETD linkage kit, v-brakes replaced by Magura Gustav M (boiled on the decent at Anderson's - they were never the same after that) then a set of Hope Mono Mini all supported on that stupid disc brake adaptor Spesh came up with. SRAM 9 speed made it's way on board along with a set of Truvative cranks that had the self extracting trick down pat. When I bought it the forks had already been upgraded to 125mm of the finest spring and elastomer boingy bits that RST could bolt together in a double triple clamp, these were twisted multiple times and eventually made way for a set of Boxxer 151 WC, these were eventually replaced with old school Pike's and the bike was perfect in my eyes... a XC bike with shit geometry, heavy and flexy...soendurobro#
Then it got nicked and I was heart broken, I loved that bike. A succession of better bikes replaced it in the garage, bikes that only had to do XC or DH or soendurobro# even a fat bike...but I always do that search on fleabay or scumtree in the hope that my old FSR will turn up...which it never has. Sometimes I see a similar bike for sale but it normally, wrong size, crap condition and somewhere usefully further away than I go on my holidays. Anyhow last night I saw this on Scumtree and had to have it...
The chick laughed at me that I looked so happy picking it up (photo from the ad - will clean it up over the weekend and take a better photo)
