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Rider:

slantz member offline

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Location:

Belvidere, Illinois

Club Affiliations:

Harvest Rockford Riders
Team BikingBuds
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Member Since:

March 2001

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2025 Miles Traveled:

2025 Rank:

currently unranked

Lifetime Odometer:

5,843 miles

History:

read the about bikej page to learn more about the history of bikejournal...

recently unearthed childhood photographs have revealed that my first bike was actually a classic red tricycle. I rode that 3-wheeler for a bit in the late 70's apparently...

Cardsfan and Huskers1 taught me how to ride on a Huffy crusier in Kansas back in the early 80's. once we moved to Oklahoma, i upgraded to a Diamondback BMX dirt bike.

after a 7 year lul in biking (adolescence!) i got my first "adult-sized" bike in 1993 when i needed a way to get around the campus at college in Illinois. a high school buddy, Pitt, pointed me towards a 1992 Apex Diamondback fully-rigid "mountain bike", on sale at a local bike shop. after adding a front shock, it was fun to ride the local singletrack back in OK with Get_Bent.

since college, most of my riding has been on paved or hard-pack bike paths in the Chicagoland area. my (ex) boss Turkbiker got me into road riding and i rode in my first century in 2000 on the mtn. bike!

because of my current riding patterns, i (finally) made the move to get a road bike in 2002 and found a great new "old" bike at my LBS. i ride the mtn bike with my wife kitkat and other friends and reserve the road bike for faster rides with roadie buddies - the motely crew of Patman, AMertogul, Turkbiker, KAD, and rjsiebert.

i would also like to get a recumbent someday to mix it up...

Bicycles

	2024 Trek Verve 3 Disc 700c Hybrid bike
	Description: Looking for more comfort these days... Lifetime Odometer: 75.7 miles

	2000 Giant TCR Team ONCE Road bike
	Description: my first road bike - aluminum frame (very light!), carbon fibre aero fork, carbon fibre aero seat post and shimano 105 componentry. added some profile aero-bars, otherwise pretty stock. i miss my third chainring on the hills sometimes. ;) I would like to upgrade the components to Ultegra as the 105's wear out and the rims are fairly basic Mavic's that could be upgraded as well at some point - but everything is hunky-dorey right now... Lifetime Odometer: 10.0 miles

	2000 Trek Multitrack 7200 700c Hybrid bike
	Description: My wife's bike, which I sometimes ride. Lifetime Odometer: 8.2 miles

	1992 Giant ATX w/ trailer Hardtail XC Mountain bike
	Description: used to record rides when I'm pulling Emma (or our pups) in the trailer Lifetime Odometer: 0.0 miles

	1992 Giant ATX Hardtail XC Mountain bike
	Description: a mutation of my first bike, a 1992 cro-mo Diamondback Apex rigid mtb. first addition was a RockShox Quadra 21R front shock, then the frame was replaced when my seat tube fused to the down tube! current componentry is Deore LX/XT. still has original Deore LX hubs (over 10 years old)! too bad they don't make LX anymore, they seem pretty hardy... ;) running with Continental's Town & Country tires because I ride on smooth trails/paths most of the time now. I'm in desparate need of new grip shifters, which I continute to put off buying. Lifetime Odometer: 53.1 miles

	1983 Diamondback BMX bike
	Description: dirt bike with cool "mag" wheels. we sold this bike 10 years later for about 30% of its original cost - it was in good shape (i.e., i didn't ride it quite enough) ;) working on scanning in a picture of this bike soon. Lifetime Odometer: 0.0 miles

	1980 Huffy Cruiser bike
	Description: My first bike with only 2 wheels. Learned to first ride it in Kansas, but this pic is from the home of red dirt, Oklahoma... I think we kept that racing number on it for as long as we had the bike. ;) Lifetime Odometer: 0.0 miles

	1977 unknown make Tricycle bike
	Description: My first bike - the classic red tricycle. :) Lifetime Odometer: 0.0 miles

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