Specs for my Mountain Bike
Specs for my Gary Fisher Sugar 1
My current bike (2001). This is the SWEETEST bike I've ever ridden.
- Bontrager Race-Lite wheels (stock)
- Bontrager cranks (stock)
- Bontrager handlebar (stock)
- Judy SID front shock (stock)
- Fox dual-chamber rear shock (stock)
- Shimano XTR gearing
- Shimano XTR Side-pull brakes
- NiteRider lighting system
- REI bell
- Teflon cable housing
- White Lightening
- White Lightening
- Clif Shots, etc.
- A Helmet, every time
- Thickly Padded Gloves
- Hard elbow pads
- Knee pads
- Biking Shoes
- Acerbis Chest Protector
- Crash Pad padded pants
- Camelbak on long/hot rides
- "Space Blanket"
- Maps, compass even for familiar territory
- Personal effects -- tissue pack, wallet, pen, license, a small amount of money, etc.
- Nishiki stock plastic pedals, off my old Nishiki Arroyo which was stolen
out of my garage a week after I bought my Answer Manitou (see below). But they couldn't
cut the chain that held the Manitou and they didn't know enough to strip the parts off it.
Anyway, these Nishiki pedals are tough as nails and take hits
beautifully. They are my original pedals from around 1992 and have
taken thousands of rock hits of all sizes.
- Lycra pants by Urbaneck. These have taken a few rock hits as well...
- Bandages
- Neosporin Antibacterial Ointment
- Sunscreen lotion, SPF 30 or higher, hypo-allergenic
- Insect Repellant, hypo-allergenic
- Ace Bandage
- Some kind of light source, small but reliable
- Half a dozen Chocolate-covered Expresso Coffee Beans wrapped in aluminum foil
Specs for my Cannondale Raven
Full suspension, carbon fiber frame, Shimano side-pull brakes. Purchased
in late 1998, it and I never really got along so I passed it on to a friend, who is
quite satisfied with it. I had it for about a year and a half.
Specs for my Manitou System FS
NOTE:
Unfortunately, in June, 1998, which happens to be the very day my
wife broke her leg (fibula, at the ankle) mountainbiking at Lake
Hodges in Escondido, California, the bike described below recieved
a fatal crack to the headtube (prior to the ride). It's a nice
scupture now. (I rode her old one that day, that day, that fateful
day.) There is some disagreement amoung the local group, but the
incident which destroyed the bike appears to the author to be the
fault of an excessive uneven force on the handlebar, which cracked
the head tube while (someone, not YH&OS) was placing the bike
onto a poorly-fitting bike rack! What a way to go, eh?
By the time my wife recovers, I'll have had to pick a new bike to
put all this nice stuff on.
I ride a 19" Answer Manitou System FS Full Suspension Mountain Bike. I keep it with a Kryptonite
New York Lock and motorcycle-type 5/8's inch braided cable. Bike was
purchased used from Cantina Bikes, Sorrento Valley and is now cared for by
the good folks at Cycle World, Carlsbad, California.
Exact Specs for my bike:
- Answer Manitou System FS 19" Aluminum frame, c. 1993
- Manitou Mach V SX Front Suspension with 61mm travel (Upgraded from stock Manitou III)
- Manitou III Rear Suspension (Upgraded elastomers)
- Answer Hyperlite 3 degree Handlebar (Blue)
- King Head Set
- Ringlé Stem
- Ringlé Anti-Chainsuck Thing, Dremeled to fit more precisely and a 2nd bolt added. (Now it works perfectly.)
- Third Eye Chain Watcher
- Bullet Bros. Chain Tensioner, Dremeled to fit better
- Syncros Titanium Bottom Bracket
- Topline Cranks
- Continental Tubes
- Continental Tires
- Mavic 217 Wheels with steel spokes
- Salsa Skewers and Seatpost Quick-release (Ti front skewer and seatpost skewer, steel rear skewer)
- Shimano XTR Front Hub
- Shimano XTR Rear Hub
- Shimano Deore XT Rear Derailleur with booster aftermarket spring somewhere inside it
- Shimano Deore XT Front Derailleur with Manitou clamp modification
- Avid 22T Steel chainring
- Real 32T Nickle-plated Aluminum Chainring
- Shimano Hyperdrive Large Chainring
- Shimano XT Rear Cassette
- Shimano XTR Side-pull Brake Levers
- Shimano XTR Side-pull Brakes. V-brakes really are amazing.
- Plastic grease slots on both brake cable housings
- Shimano XTR Rapidfire Shifters
- Titanium Crankbolts
- Topeak/Potts USA Survival Gearbox toolkit on seatpost
- Spare Continental Tube and lotsa patchs and rubber cement tubes.
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Originally posted in 1996.
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