your other rides?? post em up.

[Kruzen]

I agree and disagree. Its really dependent on the job at hand, for engineering a degree I could see as beneficial. But for certain positions, including I.T. I would never even consider it.

I work in Redmond/Bellevue, which is now the Pacific Northwest Equivalent of Silicon Valley, and up here most companies (including mine) look at actual experience, vs college status/degree and frankly I'm happy to see that change.

In my industry I have seen many people cross my path, interviewed a very large amount, and it seems the ones WITH college degree's are the cocky ones who don't understand basic concepts, let alone enterprise I.T.

Some people can pull it off, and thankfully I consider myself one of the few that did. I'm a high school dropout with a GED, and have never step foot in a College classroom, let alone paid a single student loan in my life, and for that I am thankful. I know many people who did something very similar to me, and they are all just as successful.

I hope to never work for a biased company that insists on College degree's, and as I said, many are starting to review that policy and realize that they have a much broader workforce available to them by simple dealing with skills, and not pieces of paper. Very soon I will be in executive management at my company, and I'm thrilled to be there, at 23 years of age I would of never considered a different path, and while I cannot recommend the path I took, but gosh darn it, it worked for me.

My

The only advantage I see to degree's anymore are company's who give mandatory montary bonuses just for having one, like microsoft. Otherwise, DIY IT is the way to go :)

[bimmer]

Here is my daily driver - twin supercharged E39 M5 with some goodies:





And during winter or when I have to go off road - then it´s time for the
Landcruiser:

[fporro]

2003 Norco Atomik, 5.2" x 5" 36 lbs



late 90's Giant MCR2 TT bike, setup for cruising, 16+ lbs



2005 Turner 5 Spot, 5 x 5" 27 lbs, lockouts and air shocks all around, my every ride bike



2004 Turner Burner, 3.5" x 5", 27 lbs, first pain jane ride, she's a spare ride.



03 cannondale Jeckyll, 4 x 4, lock outs, air shocks, wife's bike, 24.5lbs.



mid 80's GT LTS, 29 lbs, 4x 4", GF's bike ;)

[euroshark]

Hahaha, nice... Gotta keep the wife and the girlfriend happy

[Digitalwave]

Those are all the most badass bikes I've ever seen, nice collection...

[8atman]

Those are all the most badass bikes I've ever seen, nice collection...

Damn seriously man you put my haro to shame!!! hahaha. Do you own a bike shop down here in SD? When I look closley at the pics it looks like they are just floating there, how are they standing own there own?

PM me some good trails to hit down here.

Ash-

[So Live]

Wow, nice bikes dude. Hows the 5spot? Looking for a new bike and i get shit at cost :)

[IHeartE30s]

Heres my GTi that I've had for 4 years, built it up to the point where its not practicle to daily drive so thats why I bought my M3.

200whp 195whtq, caged, droped, euro'd = Fun as hell

And heres my possible project, '89 325i Auto with 84,000 miles! Heres the damage that needs a fixing.

[Majikal]

my DD, 2003 Ford Focus, in its prime, now its almost back to stock and gonna be for sale shortly.

[bo0stedc2]

Here is some pictures of my last car. I sold it a few months ago and got into e30's. I am sure some of you have seen it already, but I am gonna post it up again anyway! Hahaha...





Oh and here is another car that I have that I am currently rebuilding. Before Honda/Acuras and e30s I built a lot of rotaries. Well here is a small teaser of the car I am building. :D


Don't mind all the trash under the car. Hahaha...




I just recently sold my other little toy not too long ago. I plan to get another one soon!

[PSAphoto]

2001.5 Audi A4 1.8T slow car

[fporro]

Hahaha, nice... Gotta keep the wife and the girlfriend happy

LOL, yeap, keep 'em happy at all times or else !!!, lol.

Those are all the most badass bikes I've ever seen, nice collection...

thanks mang, really enjoy them, they help me keep my old ars in some sort of shape.

Went for a Full Moon ride the other day and let me tell you, it's lots of fun.
Trails change so much after dark, all sort of critters running around, and the sounds coming from behind the bushes, oh my, those are always a triller.
Last time there were 2 bats that keep on flying over my head as I waited for the moon to fully rise and skies to gain some darkness,
closed my eyes, opened my ears and listened., there's so many sounds, then a big bush movement, looked over and there was a Deer within 10 feet of me,
he must to been lying there or it's a pretty quiet walker., as fer as the bats go, hahaha, clapped my hands whenever they got too close,
they manuvered away pretty quickly, hahhahaha.YIKES !!!,

Going back this evening, as riding by moonlight is so much fun, I'll only turn the lights on when under darkening tree canopies or very steep rutted descends.,
my cue is "if you can see your shadow then it's alright to ride" :)

Damn seriously man you put my haro to shame!!! hahaha.
Do you own a bike shop down here in SD?
When I look closley at the pics it looks like they are just floating there,
how are they standing own there own?

PM me some good trails to hit down here.

Ash-

Nah mang, Haros are sweet bikes too, great purchasing power to component ratios, Iron Horse's too :) Thanks :)

Not shop owner but made a bunch of insider friends over the years, there's a guy at Easton that CADed a adapter for my road bike,
whenever possible he gives me sweet deals on handle bars, stems and seat posts, road forks too :)

check out www.mybikesite.com and look into trails sections, there's a ton there.
I ride in Los Angeles area, mostly Santa Monica Mountain "Backbone" trail network.
Big Bear, Los Angles national Forrest, etc.

If you can handle long rides, then come joins us at Kernville (lake Isabella). there's a 5,000+ feet descend (The Plunge).
Nice single track, a super sweet weekend get away, camping next to Kern River,
there's a shuttle that drives us up the steep mountain road, $ 36 bucks and well worth it.
check out http://www.mtnriver.com/bike.htm for info.

Look closely, by rear disc brakes, there's an extra blck stick going into ground, sheeehhh :) see if you can spot the one that balanced it self, heheheh.

Wow, nice bikes dude. Hows the 5spot? Looking for a new bike and i get shit at cost :)

The 5 Spot is such a great bike, little Bobing, good angles and xc BB height, best of all it's it's true Horst link chain stay pivot point,
they stopped doing that design as it seems that paying royalties for it was getting out of hand.

I have a friend (shop mechanic) whom may be selling one of his 5 Spots, not sure if Med or Large,
I'll ask., it has true Horst link as the 5*, Burner and Atomik, all original from the days of Specialized FSR designs.

m first Chi-Chi ride was a 2000 Cannondale Raven 4000sx (2nd generation frame),
built it piece by piece, added a custom valved and shortened to 4: travel Hannebrink G7 fork, in all a super agro 24.5 lbs for when back when 4" was lots of travel,
snapped 3 of them so moved on to the Norco, thing is that the Atomik don't give at all at speed, it's like an arrow which only flights straight,
the Raven's carbon construction flexed just enough at high speed for me to reach a level
that I'm yet to attain with any of the current bikes,
45mph's down a 4 mile, 2,400 ft descend to the beach. what a blast !!!
I miss that bike :(, freaking thing was 24.5 lbs and cost me almost as much as a beat up M3.


another good bike is the Intense 5.5, very light yet lots of plush travel,
built this one for a good female riding buddy.

[FredK]

Yeah I'm disappointed that Turner stopped using the Horst Link. I think it was actually Ellsworth who was enforcing their ICT patent, because the Turner chainstay pivot was actually creeping upwards and rearwards like the ICT pivot on every iteration of their rear triangle.

These days rear shocks are so advanced that pedal bobbing is allegedly damped out a whole bunch, even on seatstay pivot bikes.

[fporro]

Yeah I'm disappointed that Turner stopped using the Horst Link. I think it was actually Ellsworth who was enforcing their ICT patent, because the Turner chainstay pivot was actually creeping upwards and rearwards like the ICT pivot on every iteration of their rear triangle.

These days rear shocks are so advanced that pedal bobbing is allegedly damped out a whole bunch, even on seatstay pivot bikes.

Yeap, "Beer Can" bike-man raised it to $ 250 per frame, yikes !

The Burner came with a Manitou SPV shock, non active on most fire roads and smooth single track, then it comes alive when it needs to.

First thing I did to the 5*, even before building it was replace the Romic coil shock, for a nifty 4 way Fox unit, it has... Long and Short travel settings, red Rebound Dampener knob, Compression via air valve settings and Lock Out too., those same settings are also available on fork, so, she goes from 5" to 4" at anytime, or rigid for those ultra long/steep climbs.

The old raven used to brake-jack all of the time, but it climbed like a goat, even with the big heavy fork.

What do you ride ???

Did you see the mangled burner on T's warranty page, ?
I had the pleasure to built it, almost a clone of my own Burner.
Riding buddy was in a rush to get it home, so he did not even take it for a spin on my driveway,
hooked it up to his old bike rack and whala !
within a few exits from his place it fell off on the 101 Hwy, he was like...

"I'll stop and get it,
then a big rig hit, so I said, well, may there's some good parts left,
then another truck hit it, by then lost all emotion and keep on driving."

I went back next day, drove slowly and picked up what was left of it, what a shame.

Dave was nice enough and gave him a good brake on replacement frame.

[FredK]

Wow. That is carnage!

I used to have an RFX, but I just couldn't get comfortable on the bike. TT was a little short.

While I had it I rode it with 5" linkage plates and later, I installed the 6" plates. Man the bike was like butter.

I currently ride (well, I haven't gone on an off road ride in a few years now, I mostly ride on-road when I can) a Titus RX Ti. Things have changed since I built up the bike. Chris King now has some ludicrous dealer price protection scheme, Turner now uses a seatstay pivot, Mavic discontinued the player-assed welded and pinned X317 rims, damn. I'm just glad I was able to get some King ISO hubs before they skyrocketed in price.

I can't believe Ellsworth is charging $250 a frame...