Specs for my Gary Fisher Sugar 1

This was the SWEETEST bike I'd ever ridden (cerca 2001) -- until it got replaced (a warrantee replacement!) with a Sugar 3, which I still ride as of 2019.
  • Bontrager Race-Lite wheels (stock)
  • Bontrager cranks (stock)
  • Bontrager handlebar (stock)
  • Judy SID front shock (stock)
  • Fox dual-chamber rear shock (stock)
  • Shimano XTR gearing
  • Shimano XTR Side-pull brakes
  • NiteRider lighting system
  • REI bell
  • Teflon cable housing
  • White Lightening
  • White Lightening
  • Clif Shots, etc.
  • A Helmet, every time
  • Thickly Padded Gloves
  • Hard elbow pads
  • Knee pads
  • Biking Shoes
  • Acerbis Chest Protector
  • Crash Pad padded pants
  • Camelbak on long/hot rides
  • "Space Blanket"
  • Maps, compass even for familiar territory
  • Personal effects -- tissue pack, wallet, pen, license, a small amount of money, etc.
  • Nishiki stock plastic pedals, off my old Nishiki Arroyo which was stolen out of my garage a week after I bought my Answer Manitou (see below). But they couldn't cut the chain that held the Manitou and they didn't know enough to strip the parts off it. Anyway, these Nishiki pedals are tough as nails and take hits beautifully. They are my original pedals from around 1992 and have taken thousands of rock hits of all sizes.
  • Lycra pants by Urbaneck. These have taken a few rock hits as well...
  • Bandages
  • Neosporin Antibacterial Ointment
  • Sunscreen lotion, SPF 30 or higher, hypo-allergenic
  • Insect Repellant, hypo-allergenic
  • Ace Bandage
  • Some kind of light source, small but reliable
  • Half a dozen Chocolate-covered Expresso Coffee Beans wrapped in aluminum foil

Specs for my Cannondale Raven

Full suspension, carbon fiber frame, Shimano side-pull brakes. Purchased in late 1998, it and I never really got along so I passed it on to a friend, who is quite satisfied with it. I had it for about a year and a half.

Specs for my Manitou System FS

NOTE:
Unfortunately, in June, 1998, which happens to be the very day my wife broke her leg (fibula, at the ankle) mountainbiking at Lake Hodges in Escondido, California, the bike described below received a fatal crack to the headtube (prior to the ride). It's a nice scupture now. (I rode her old one that day, that day, that fateful day.) There is some disagreement amoung the local group, but the incident which destroyed the bike appears to the author to be the fault of an excessive uneven force on the handlebar, which cracked the head tube while (someone, not YH&OS) was placing the bike onto a poorly-fitting bike rack! What a way to go, eh? By the time my wife recovers, I'll have had to pick a new bike to put all this nice stuff on.

I ride a 19" Answer Manitou System FS Full Suspension Mountain Bike. I keep it with a Kryptonite New York Lock and motorcycle-type 5/8's inch braided cable. Bike was purchased used from Cantina Bikes, Sorrento Valley.

    Specs for my bike:
  • Answer Manitou System FS 19" Aluminum frame, c. 1993
  • Manitou Mach V SX Front Suspension with 61mm travel (Upgraded from stock Manitou III)
  • Manitou III Rear Suspension (Upgraded elastomers)
  • Answer Hyperlite 3 degree Handlebar (Blue)
  • King Head Set
  • Ringlé Stem
  • Ringlé Anti-Chainsuck Thing, Dremeled to fit more precisely and a 2nd bolt added. (Now it works perfectly.)
  • Third Eye Chain Watcher
  • Bullet Bros. Chain Tensioner, Dremeled to fit better
  • Syncros Titanium Bottom Bracket
  • Topline Cranks
  • Continental Tubes
  • Continental Tires
  • Mavic 217 Wheels with steel spokes
  • Salsa Skewers and Seatpost Quick-release (Ti front skewer and seatpost skewer, steel rear skewer)
  • Shimano XTR Front Hub
  • Shimano XTR Rear Hub
  • Shimano Deore XT Rear Derailleur with booster aftermarket spring somewhere inside it
  • Shimano Deore XT Front Derailleur with Manitou clamp modification
  • Avid 22T Steel chainring
  • Real 32T Nickle-plated Aluminum Chainring
  • Shimano Hyperdrive Large Chainring
  • Shimano XT Rear Cassette
  • Shimano XTR Side-pull Brake Levers
  • Shimano XTR Side-pull Brakes. V-brakes really are amazing.
  • Plastic grease slots on both brake cable housings
  • Shimano XTR Rapidfire Shifters
  • Titanium Crankbolts
  • Topeak/Potts USA Survival Gearbox toolkit on seatpost
  • Spare Continental Tube and lotsa patchs and rubber cement tubes.
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