Friday, February 8, 2013

Old photos 2: Gravel Road Rash

C-6000 wipe out a few years ago. I blame the 29er experiement I was on at the time. A week later, with a nice big fresh scab I grazed a tree at speed at a race in Bend and peeled the scab off. I'm sure I will have skin cancer here someday. The skin pigment never returned to normal.

6 comments:

  1. who's sweet SS bikes are those pictured on capitolforest.com?

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  2. Hello "Anonymous"! Those were mine. It was a fun and strange trip to go on. I never really felt comfortable on those bikes. They all felt tall, and steep. If Chromag were building their AM hard tails at that time, it might have stuck. That early On One 650b was pretty cool. Still not quite the right geo though. I am now head over heels for stiff, slack and light carbon AM bikes. A Chromag SS might be a fun diversion though.

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  3. Best looking SS ever.
    http://forums.mtbr.com/all-mountain/custom-chromag-stash-training-weapon-631645.html

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  4. hands down, Jim get a chromag, Matt, get one after you get tired of your transam, Anonymous, sounds like you need a chromag

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  5. sorry for being anonymous, dont know how to show myself!! I just came across this site the other day, F'in sweet. I am originally from Oly but living in Bay Area now, bout to move to Rhode Island for military. Anyways, those SS you had were pretty sweet looking. Im not believing that Chromag Stash was only 23.5 lbs. Cam, mail me a chromag and i'll tell everyone who i got it from. I just sold off my bikes with gears and suspension. Took my original 1991 Diamond Back Response Sport and with some modern components, build a pretty bitchen SS Rigid, its only 26" but she rips like she did when i was kid killing it in the woods near Hawks Prarie in Lacey. keep up the good site fellas, you keep my spirits up when all i wanna do is ride in some wet and muddy NW conditions, instead its too dry and barely enough legal singletrack here to keep a guy busy.

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  6. btw i am Garrett, and i started following you guys on strava

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