I've considered just replacing my bike altogether, but what do I do with the one I have? Especially when the frame is perfect and overall in decent working order?

Anyway, post up what you ride, where you ride and any pics you may have. My favorite place that I've ridden is at T.K. Lawless State Park in Vandalia, Michigan. If you can ride the trail in an hour, you're doing ok.

Mid last year, I ate it really nasty and ended up going over the bars off about a 3 foot kicker. I landed straight on my face and right shoulder, and instantly blacked out. Apparantly my bike came over my back (pedals still clipped in) and hit me in the back of the head, accoring to the my buddies riding behind me.

So, I get up thinking my shoulders fine. I do a quick swirl of my arm to ease the pain, and all I here is CRACK CRACK and instantly felt my shoulder drop a good 3 inches. After walking a good 3 miles, I made it to a freinds house and immediately went to the hospitol. I ended up breaking my collar bone a half an inch from my shoulder, and its just starting to get better.

The bikes thrashed from the accident, Im probably just going to build the frame up from scratch. Now I have to get over my fear of eating pavement. Its all in fun though..

Just got a new (to me) 2005 Norco Manik, its nice.

Pics of some local trails in Germany, nothing too nasty...

I don't know much about this brand, but my initial thoughts are that it is something like a Mongoose and not nearly at the level of Specialized or Trek.

Anyway, he wants $400 for this dual suspension bike with disk brakes he bought in 06. Any comments?

Those bikes look pretty serious to me. I think I'd be all over that.

I can get an entry level Rockhopper new for $430 or the Rockhopper Disc for around $600. It just did not seem like the disc brakes had more stopping power than the V-brakes. The V-brakes actually felt a little stronger.

I am leaning towards the base model because over time I will upgrade the fork and other components anyway, plus I will be getting my wife a bike at the same time and don't have that kind of $$.

What is Treks comparable model to the Rockhopper? Is it the 4900?

Came with a set of Redline alum. pedals and some gator grip sawall-lookin pdeals

Also came with WTB fr/rr-specific velociraptors, which i'm probably going to change out

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and the first little mod today, cut off the thin rubber bar end caps from the single pc grips and replaced them with some aluminum bar ends left over from some of my bmx bikes

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Just some photos...

I've got a jamis and love it

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I still haven't decided on whether to buy a new bike or rehab mine. I need to get off my *** and do one or the other though, but keep spending my money on cars and guns.

Get a new one.

Also, check out this site, I love it!!!

http://www.blueskycycling.com

New rear fender (mud on your back is lamesauce)

Also added a SKS mud-x shield on the downtube, but guess I forgot a pic of it.

Topeak mini 3-LED light. Got it on clearence and wanted something really small... this definately fits that bill, haven't seen anything smaller. Pretty darn bright too!

And some self-cleaning wax Ceflon chain/deraileur lube for maintainence. This stuff is badass. Little particles of wax with dirt on it fall off leaving clean wax lube, pretty awesome if you ask me, lol.

Just got back from messing around my neighborhood. MAN I'm out of shape!

DMoreau, looks like you're at Beech Spring park. I live all of 10 minutes from there, but I'm afraid to go until I get in better shape and more comfortable on the bike. Any other decent places around here to ride?