Yup, I love how there's every kind of bike on here because, even when it's a type of bike I don't care for, it's common for me to see some really creative ideas and cool things done with them.
I started out as a kid building rat BMX bikes largely out of necessity, got injured and forgot about them, then came back after college with mountain biking. However, I have a lot of interests, not any one thing I can be obsessive about, and mountain biking doesn't seem to be the more casual affair I'd prefer for most people who do it. I never had the desire to spend the time and money to keep up with them and I got bored going alone. Then I rode/crashed a flat-tired old road bike that was part of an abandoned art project around the tower building of Mass Art and loved the lightweight feel, so I got a road bike. Found more or less the same kind of attitude among the road bike guys as the mountain bikers. Then a friend of mine got into biking and started Frankensteining stuff and I remembered how I liked doing that as a kid, how it was just as fun as the riding for me. Then I started to think more creatively about it and ended up here. These kinds of friendly, accepting sites seem pretty rare on the internet and I count myself lucky to have found a second one (the first was a site for Mk1 Subaru Legacys and I met some great people there).
I started out as a kid building rat BMX bikes largely out of necessity, got injured and forgot about them, then came back after college with mountain biking. However, I have a lot of interests, not any one thing I can be obsessive about, and mountain biking doesn't seem to be the more casual affair I'd prefer for most people who do it. I never had the desire to spend the time and money to keep up with them and I got bored going alone. Then I rode/crashed a flat-tired old road bike that was part of an abandoned art project around the tower building of Mass Art and loved the lightweight feel, so I got a road bike. Found more or less the same kind of attitude among the road bike guys as the mountain bikers. Then a friend of mine got into biking and started Frankensteining stuff and I remembered how I liked doing that as a kid, how it was just as fun as the riding for me. Then I started to think more creatively about it and ended up here. These kinds of friendly, accepting sites seem pretty rare on the internet and I count myself lucky to have found a second one (the first was a site for Mk1 Subaru Legacys and I met some great people there).
