I am.  As much as I love going snowboarding, it isn't something I can go out and do every day.  I'm so freaking ready to go out and hit the trails this year.  We're probably going to need to organize a maintenance day or something this spring, and hopefully Zandr won't almost die again.

I need to find a new toy for the bike.  I'm thinking about going with these bars:

Yes, I am ready to go riding. I'm trying to figure out how to get my bike down to Lake Barkley when we go down there for a weekend in early summer.
But I'm just ready to go just about anywhere.

Yes, I am ready to go riding again. I'll be even more ready when my new fork comes in, and my new wheelset is built.

I don't know that I'm going to be able to go to Angel Mounds this year. Scales has kind of spoiled me.

Elitist. 

I'm ready to go riding because it's free, and my basement is nowhere near big enough to get a substantial workout riding around.

I need to get my bike over to Dans to have the new crankset installed and get new tires.

It's ok little guy.  Those big handlebars will save you.

Thanks man. It was so inspiring watching how heroically you conquered Scales all those times you rode with us last year. I always tell people, if there's anyone up for a good long ride at Scales on weekend mornings, it's Alex. He'll be there with bells on. Most days he gets there before the park is open - that's how ready to ride Scales he is!

Why, when you say "Scales Lake" to me, I just hear "the trails that are so ridden by Alex, they might as well be his, exclusively!" Frankly, good sir, even saying the words "Alex" and "Scales" in the same sentence is redundant, because the two are so intertwined! Alex riding at Scales, a sight as common as the air I breathe. Why, I am surprised he does not have his own parking spot, with his name chiseled in stone, to signify that Scales Lake and Alex shall forever be one in the same. I suppose the operators of the park figure that stone is just not permanent enough to reflect the commitment Alex has made.

When I talk to my friends, and I inform them that I'll be riding my bike on the weekend, I don't say I'll be at Scales. Oh no no, not at all, to do so would be pure farce. I say, "I will be riding my bike at Alex's MTB Trail Park this weekend, in hopes that one day I will manage to finish the trail Alex has so cleverly owned all these many years. Please call my cell phone around noon tomorrow, because I surely will be lost and so beaten up by the trail that I will need you to drive into the forest to save me. I would ask Alex, as he will be lapping me every five minutes, but I don't think I could stand the shame."

Go to Angel Mounds this year? Why of course, I will be going there and THERE ALONE, because to ride Scales would be only a sad facsimile of what Alex has accomplished there so many times before.

Scales is more fun and challenging, but Angel Mounds is just down the street and I feel more comfortable riding solo when I'm there.  I'm sure I'll be at both places equally this season.

Thank you so much good sir,  it's not often I get the recognition I truly deserve.

Maybe one day you can have more than a simple curve named after you.  I doubt it,  but we have to have goals.

I'm ready. Once the ice goes away, I'll take some road rides to try to get back in shape.

Last time I was at Scales, our buddy built some cool shit, but he had to tear it down and go in front of the board of directors because it barely went through a camp site. I haven't heard from him since then because the weather has consistently sucked. My bike probably needs to go to the shop, but I might wait and see if Nathan and Zandr get into a buying competition and sell their current bikes. This thread is full of burn.

I'm gonna need details on this.

I already own like 12 bikes so I'm pretty much the winner. I have a plan for the Reign and I will be selling off the stock components that I replace but I'm very happy with the frame. I'm even considering keeping the Ruckus to use as a city/commuter bike.

I can't wait to go riding, I feel like a lazy slob right now.



I am currently saving up for this bad boy, hopefully I can get my funding together by the time the riding season starts.

I'm also contemplating a 29'er but I don't think I want to go back to a hardtail.

Dan, that's a girl's bike.  For serious.

FUUUUUU

I was gawking at one at gilles and I was pretty sure that was the one. maybe not.



that was the one

I think Dan's Comp has a Stumpjumper FSR Comp in stock.  Derek would probably hook you up.

http://www.specialized.com/bc/SBCBkModel.jsp?arc=2008&spid=33436

Dan's Comp is the only bike shop that matters. For serious.

$1500 is definitely my price cap.  I don't want to spend 2 grand on something I'll have to baby because it cost so much.

I plan on doing some riding tomorrow since it's supposed to be warm.

I babied my bike when I first got my $400 frame, but now I just throw it around. It's a bike, it's going to get scratched/dented.

If scratches were the only problem I ever had that would be fine.  Its when you strip bottom brackets and pancake wheelsets that you don't want to be too far in the hole.  But on the other hand Zandr's reign lived through a pretty knarly wreck with no more damage than the handlebars needing to be adjusted.