Ode to a trusty steed

Enwezor
Enwezor Posts: 124
edited March 2009 in MTB general
Last week my Custom Rockhopper was nicked from my house. :cry:

I'd had that bike for 6 years and it's the bike that I learnt my mountain-biking skills on. The only surviving parts were the frame and the handlebars - everything else I had to replace as I broke them over 6 years hard riding.
What a great bike - I will miss it - it never let me down and I had some fantastic times, riding through the South Downs over those 6 years clocking up thousands of off-road miles in all weather which is one of the great things about mountain-biking. Had some stupendous crashes too - always me that came off worse and the bike just kept going! (albeit some broken componentry but nothing major!)

When you ride a bike for 6 years, you get to know it really well - I could go anywhere on that bike and I did, often just me and the bike, taking in the countryside or plunging headlong down a descent, trying to hold off using the brakes at all, automatically correcting for little slides and bumps and then getting to the bottom in one piece having made it intact, having ridden along that fine line between losing it and maximum speed which you know brings the most pleasure.

Anyway, that bike was the best money I ever spent on anything period and I'll miss it. Long live mtbing. :wink:

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