My name is Russell and I'm a bikeaholic
I was going to do a history of my bikes up to this point, but I don't have a week spare, so you'll all just have to accept that I have probably owned a lot of bikes, have probably changed lots of bits on them, changed my mind lots, have lots of spare bike bits strewn across the garage and have spent more time talking about them than riding them ...
Which gets us to today ... I'm not going to go into all the bikes I've got as most of them are too obscure so I'll just go with the main ones ...
A few years back I was sponsored to ride Rotwild bikes. They are not so well known in the UK, but they are a German brand of top end racing bikes. In the same way that I like Mazda MX5s, Rotwild kind of clicks with me as well ... can't really explain why, the geometry just works for me and I like their thinking.
I was sponsored to ride Downhill and Cross Country, but they gave me a road bike as well for training, and the main 3 bikes I use at the moment are these 3.
I'll cover each bike in a bit more detail, but the rest of the bikes I have sit in 2 camps. Some are current bikes I use a bit but not much ... a tandem, a unicycle, a BMX, a cruddy going down the shops and I don't care if this get nicked bike etc. The other group are a mix of bikes that I've collected over the years because I think they are important bikes in the history of the development of MTBs ... maybe I'll open a museum one day? Some you might know are a GT RTS and a Muddy Fox Courier ... others are a lot more obscure!
Then there's the rest of the families bikes!
Russell.