Mountain Biker's Anonymous...
Tuesday, July 15, 2003 by Fuzzy Logic | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk
Bitten by the mountain biking bug? Unload your technicals in here. Anything biking goes (no roadies please...)
Do you just sit and look at it? Is it something you dream of? Tell us..
For the record then: Merlin 7005 frame, Marzocchi Z1 fork, XTR groupset, Hope disc brakes/hubs on Mavic 317 rims, Azonic double skin riser + milled 6061 stem, X-Lite seatpost and various other goodies.
What you got?
Do you just sit and look at it? Is it something you dream of? Tell us..
For the record then: Merlin 7005 frame, Marzocchi Z1 fork, XTR groupset, Hope disc brakes/hubs on Mavic 317 rims, Azonic double skin riser + milled 6061 stem, X-Lite seatpost and various other goodies.
What you got?
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windKnot
Reply #142 Friday, September 26, 2003 7:31 AM
Reply #142 Friday, September 26, 2003 7:31 AM
IPlural... I guess I live just north of you.(Spring Hill) We have over 1100 miles of trails and I've been riding them since 1985. My favorite is in Inverness, beautiful forest (shade) with some very challenging hills (the second highest elevation in Florida) refreshing lakes to swim in and some really great caves to explore. Mountain bike clubs from around the state come here every week, but there are enough trails to go around. I do agree with you and don't go riding during hunting season. My Moma didn't raise no fool 
IPlural
Reply #145 Friday, September 26, 2003 9:17 AM
Reply #145 Friday, September 26, 2003 9:17 AM
Spring Hill is nice, though I never knew about the trails, unless your speaking of the Pinellas Trail?
I was under the impression that they shut down all tracts of land from public access unless it is a park because of dirt bikes and such.
I'll have to come up that way with my wife and daughter and check it out. Last time I was up there it was 1986 and not much there really. It is pretty though, isn't that where that hill is where you can park your car at the bottom of the hill and leave it out of gear and it will roll up hill?
It's optical, the looking like it is up hill, but it is still freaky
Pinellas has gone Blue Hair totally. We used to have mud holes for 4x4's dirt tracks, sand tracks, keg parties, bon fires and such. But they have pretty much shut it all down now and are building up all the wild areas and moving north up 19 and south down 275.
This is what I bought for riding down here because it's not heavy enough riding from what I've seen, but this goes all ways, trails, street, sand hills, excluding rock hopping.
What I ment about trails not being really all that good here is Full Suspension bikes like this one.
Fisher Sugar 292
Fisher Cake 3 DLX
I was under the impression that they shut down all tracts of land from public access unless it is a park because of dirt bikes and such.
I'll have to come up that way with my wife and daughter and check it out. Last time I was up there it was 1986 and not much there really. It is pretty though, isn't that where that hill is where you can park your car at the bottom of the hill and leave it out of gear and it will roll up hill?
It's optical, the looking like it is up hill, but it is still freaky
Pinellas has gone Blue Hair totally. We used to have mud holes for 4x4's dirt tracks, sand tracks, keg parties, bon fires and such. But they have pretty much shut it all down now and are building up all the wild areas and moving north up 19 and south down 275.
This is what I bought for riding down here because it's not heavy enough riding from what I've seen, but this goes all ways, trails, street, sand hills, excluding rock hopping.
What I ment about trails not being really all that good here is Full Suspension bikes like this one.
Fisher Sugar 292
Fisher Cake 3 DLX
windKnot
Reply #146 Friday, September 26, 2003 9:47 AM
Reply #146 Friday, September 26, 2003 9:47 AM
IPlural,
That hill your thinking about is Spook Hill and its in Lake Wales off RT 60. It is cool.
The rails to trails program is in the process of connecting the Pinellas trail with the paved trails here & the Florida Greenways (to Orlando)and eventually they will connect with the Appalachian Trail so you will be able to go from Main to the Everglades nonstop. East of Brooksville is Croom it has a dedicated area for dirt bikes but also paved and single track trails (Florida Trail) along the Withlacochee River..very scenic, and the paved trails are great for children,away from hunters but..very hot in the summer (old Railways) the single track is shaded but requires effort.There also is a campground and picnic area. Years ago I 4x4ed around Boyscout Lake and behind Honeywell but as it built up I found it better in Hernando County. I still do a bit of off roading. Your bikes will work fine. If you have any questions before you and your family come up just ask
That hill your thinking about is Spook Hill and its in Lake Wales off RT 60. It is cool.
The rails to trails program is in the process of connecting the Pinellas trail with the paved trails here & the Florida Greenways (to Orlando)and eventually they will connect with the Appalachian Trail so you will be able to go from Main to the Everglades nonstop. East of Brooksville is Croom it has a dedicated area for dirt bikes but also paved and single track trails (Florida Trail) along the Withlacochee River..very scenic, and the paved trails are great for children,away from hunters but..very hot in the summer (old Railways) the single track is shaded but requires effort.There also is a campground and picnic area. Years ago I 4x4ed around Boyscout Lake and behind Honeywell but as it built up I found it better in Hernando County. I still do a bit of off roading. Your bikes will work fine. If you have any questions before you and your family come up just ask
IPlural
Reply #147 Friday, September 26, 2003 10:47 AM
Reply #147 Friday, September 26, 2003 10:47 AM
Will do
Yeah Boysouct lake, and the Stables behind there. I grew up around here pretty much excluding the times my mother would send me to my father (who pawned me off on my grand parents) to throw a wrench into his life.
Twin Lakes out where Toy Town dump (land fill) was at, well it's still there but they have a plant there now and it is so built up you couldn't imagine where everything was out there if you haven't been there before.
Little Bull Frog is another good place, and from what I hear up in Tarpon and Pasco it's pretty hopping, but even they are facing what we had happen here in Pinellas
It's different down here compared to Maine. Though just as much to do, but I won't hunt here, heck Maine is getting pretty bad too.
For the life of me I do not know why they allow people who are gun ignorant own guns and worse yet, they are even more ignorant of hunting and they let them take those guns into the woods with people in them.
Few years back in Maine a woman was hanging cloths on her line out behind her house and the power line ran behind there, she was wearing white gloves and this guy from out of state dinked her dead as a door nail then claimed ignorance. I m not sure what happened to him, but he should have got time for it, if you do not see what your shooting at you don't shoot...
Down here, the kid sitting on his grand fathers lap years back, the guy who shot him was using a 3.06, hell what did he think he was hunting for Moose?
3.06 would blow a Florida deer into fluffs of fur and the damn bullet carries to damn far... he should have got time also... he shot at a flash of brown hair into a RV Camping grounds...
Yeah Boysouct lake, and the Stables behind there. I grew up around here pretty much excluding the times my mother would send me to my father (who pawned me off on my grand parents) to throw a wrench into his life.
Twin Lakes out where Toy Town dump (land fill) was at, well it's still there but they have a plant there now and it is so built up you couldn't imagine where everything was out there if you haven't been there before.
Little Bull Frog is another good place, and from what I hear up in Tarpon and Pasco it's pretty hopping, but even they are facing what we had happen here in Pinellas
It's different down here compared to Maine. Though just as much to do, but I won't hunt here, heck Maine is getting pretty bad too.
For the life of me I do not know why they allow people who are gun ignorant own guns and worse yet, they are even more ignorant of hunting and they let them take those guns into the woods with people in them.
Few years back in Maine a woman was hanging cloths on her line out behind her house and the power line ran behind there, she was wearing white gloves and this guy from out of state dinked her dead as a door nail then claimed ignorance. I m not sure what happened to him, but he should have got time for it, if you do not see what your shooting at you don't shoot...
Down here, the kid sitting on his grand fathers lap years back, the guy who shot him was using a 3.06, hell what did he think he was hunting for Moose?
3.06 would blow a Florida deer into fluffs of fur and the damn bullet carries to damn far...
he should have got time also... he shot at a flash of brown hair into a RV Camping grounds...
windKnot
Reply #148 Friday, September 26, 2003 11:26 AM
Reply #148 Friday, September 26, 2003 11:26 AM
IPlural,
I've been here 30 years now and I know what you mean...I've seen alot of changes,its a shame it hasn't been for the better. Florida is still getting close to 1000 people a day moving here...I wish someone would build a fence at the Georgia border. You can't tell the difference from Pinellas,Pasco and parts of Hernando any more. It is nice in Spring Hill when you see the Bear crossing signs and there is 150 miles of pristine shoreline. After 18+ years I left a corporate sales management position (traveling Noth America) and 15 years ago I started a fly fishing charter business..so now I'm able to spend most of my time on the water in the Chassawiska National Wildlife Refuse away from the madness. Speaking of Florida hunters, they never caught the guy in Lake City that was hunting the hunters. I believe he killed 3 or 4 as they sat in tree stands during deer season. Anyway... get in touch if I can help in any way.
I've been here 30 years now and I know what you mean...I've seen alot of changes,its a shame it hasn't been for the better. Florida is still getting close to 1000 people a day moving here...I wish someone would build a fence at the Georgia border. You can't tell the difference from Pinellas,Pasco and parts of Hernando any more. It is nice in Spring Hill when you see the Bear crossing signs and there is 150 miles of pristine shoreline. After 18+ years I left a corporate sales management position (traveling Noth America) and 15 years ago I started a fly fishing charter business..so now I'm able to spend most of my time on the water in the Chassawiska National Wildlife Refuse away from the madness. Speaking of Florida hunters, they never caught the guy in Lake City that was hunting the hunters. I believe he killed 3 or 4 as they sat in tree stands during deer season. Anyway... get in touch if I can help in any way.
IPlural
Reply #149 Friday, September 26, 2003 12:26 PM
Reply #149 Friday, September 26, 2003 12:26 PM
ack, your living my life !!!! give it back
will do!
will do!
IPlural
Reply #151 Friday, September 26, 2003 12:53 PM pltttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttt
one day, yes, one day it will be mine
Reply #151 Friday, September 26, 2003 12:53 PM
plttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttone day, yes, one day it will be mine
kona0197
Reply #152 Friday, September 26, 2003 12:55 PM
Reply #152 Friday, September 26, 2003 12:55 PM
did I mention I have a set? And I got them free? (birthday) you can have em when I upgrade to hydraulic disc brakes.
kona0197
Reply #154 Friday, September 26, 2003 2:34 PM
WRONG!
The reason they are so superior:
4-Piston Design: Two pairs of different diameter pistons provide a stabalizing effect that improves control and stopping power.
Reply #154 Friday, September 26, 2003 2:34 PM
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WRONG!
The reason they are so superior:
4-Piston Design: Two pairs of different diameter pistons provide a stabalizing effect that improves control and stopping power.
Fuzzy Logic
Reply #155 Friday, September 26, 2003 2:48 PM
XT stuff is cheap and nasty. Hope discs are hand made. And you can get four pot calipers. I prefer the DH disc as above; I've been using them for four years and the stopping power is awesome. If you've seen one in real life they're twice the size of XT. Most DHers have been using Hope stuff for years and for a good reason - indestructibility, reliability, quality. Nuff said
Reply #155 Friday, September 26, 2003 2:48 PM
XT stuff is cheap and nasty. Hope discs are hand made. And you can get four pot calipers. I prefer the DH disc as above; I've been using them for four years and the stopping power is awesome. If you've seen one in real life they're twice the size of XT. Most DHers have been using Hope stuff for years and for a good reason - indestructibility, reliability, quality. Nuff said
kona0197
Reply #156 Friday, September 26, 2003 2:49 PM
Reply #156 Friday, September 26, 2003 2:49 PM
Actually most downhillers perfer hayes....
top sellers for a reason.
I have worked on hope brakes. I dislike em.
top sellers for a reason.
I have worked on hope brakes. I dislike em.
IPlural
Reply #157 Friday, September 26, 2003 4:19 PM
Reply #157 Friday, September 26, 2003 4:19 PM
Hayes as in Hayes Clutch?
If so I can see why considering the hookup with their pressure plate and clutch plate designs....
If so I can see why considering the hookup with their pressure plate and clutch plate designs....
kona0197
Reply #158 Friday, September 26, 2003 4:33 PM
Reply #158 Friday, September 26, 2003 4:33 PM
No.. hayes as in hayes mountain bike disc brakes...
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Reply #141 Friday, September 26, 2003 1:14 AM