Another self-aggrandizing bike photo....

[BiggJawn]

This one, I've ridden quite a bit this year. 34-tooth Shimano "Megarange" rear sprocket for hills, Biopace front sprockets, 105 crank and shifters (SIS, cool!) Extended stem and seatpost because the frame is a little small, SPD pedals, and "hand-crafted" 12V lighting system with LED's to the rear and an 11W to the front and a heavy-as-Hell 12V 7AH battery (the thing near the cranks) to run it all...

[wtmusic]

1. Ever try one of those sliding seat mounts

to buy some room?

They fit on the seat post and give you about 3 cm of slide back. I'm 6'3" and it turned my 60cm frame into a 63 (a 140 mm stem helps too).

[BiggJawn]

2. I'm kind of short up top...

Never have an issue with reach, except on my Raliegh, which stretches me out a bit, just leg length and stem height. I'm not as flexible (and I have a bigger gut) as I was when I was 17...

[underpants]

3. Did someone steal the playing card taped to your fork?

I HATE when people do that

[BiggJawn]

6. We always used balloons...

didn't last as long as cards, but they had a deeper "Thlub" sound to them...

[Mara Steele]

4. oooohhh Ahhhh

What a beauty!

[BiggJawn]

8. Thanks! n/t

[frylock]

5. where's the suspension?

and what's the deal with those skinny tires? Nice ride, though. Damn that headlamp is HUGE. I wish I could dim my TrailRat. Sometimes it's little too bright when I'm riding the asphalt around the lake. Is that a Jandd pack you have on the back there?

[BiggJawn]

7. Suspension?

Skinny tyres? they're 27X1-1/8....:-)

The headlight is a 11W "landscape floodlight" from our friends at Malibu (the sidewalk light people) It's adequate at speeds up to 19 MPH.
The pack is a Bell pack from "The Store which Must Not be Named". Contains tube, patch kit, tyre levers, Clif Bar and Glucose tabs.

[frylock]

11. the store which must not be named..

cthulhu-mart? My "survival kit": spare tube, patch kit, tire levers, spoke wrench, various allen keys, snakebite kit, and sometimes a uhhhhhh pipe, for those descents!! Sure, it's a lot of crap to carry, but my RockHopper FSR is a tank anyway.

[bmbmd]

9. I think I saw that bike

in the basement of the Alamo.

[snooper2]

10. Here's my bike...That free website is cool!