thelawgoddess

thanks, chris!

thanks, ken4ord (and dave!) ... all good things to think about. i do think the frame is most important; i just get caught up in the cost of all the components as well. rwanda sounds pretty neat!

cool! although the last picture is a bit gross. looks like a really beautiful peaceful place over there!

still got tricams?

that explains a lot ... since you and crazy polish bob are the only poles i know!

sweet. good memory, eh?

yes; it is. it's freaking cold!

hey dave, thanks. i definitely know it needs to be small enough. after my first xc ride on a bike that was way too big for me, i vowed never to do that again. it was quite a painful experience! santa cruz makes some nice bikes that will fit me (the juliana and the heckler, for instance) but they are so far out of my price range it's not even funny. the 15" 2003 kona dawg will do okay (its standover is shorter than the newer ones) ... and the small specialized enduro frames will work because of their fine geometry. i've had a tough time finding adult bikes that are small enough ... that i can also afford. i'll welcome other suggestions, but i've done quite a bit of looking. i'm really trying to decide whether to get this enduro pro. are you any good at pricing bikes?

yeah, that's one issue with the enduro pro i'm looking at. the fox talas has excellent reviews; the manitou black elite has pretty mixed reviews and more negative ones when taken in light of the kind of riding i want to do. seems to lessen the value of the bike where i'm concerned ... but i don't know by how much. sure would be expensive to have to replace. but then again i doubt i will be that hard on a fork -- and maybe i shouldn't be too worried about it?

if you post a pic of your pack, i'm sure you will get some useful (and perhaps not so useful ) suggestions from us.

sweet! the pics are nice - not what i was expecting from the tr. adventure is good ...

i'm actually looking at an enduro pro, which usually costs quite a bit more than the dawg ... but the one i'm looking at has a different fork than comes stock - it's a manitou black elite diva (with lockout). ken4ord (or anybody else), do you have a take on the manitou forks vs. the fox forks? (the stock enduro pro fork is the fox rlc talas)

yeah, i'd LOVE to have a heckler, but they are way out of my price range ... even old and used.

butter chicken is the best indian dish i've ever had. YUM!!!

their mangodillas are heavenly. so are the sweet potato tacos. and the citrus salad with steak ... yum!!! oh, and did i forget the mango margaritas? and i don't even like margaritas!

i hate how when i click on a link to open a thread in a new window it is lined up annoyingly just below the place where you click to get to the first unread post so that i have to scroll up first so i can click on it.

y'all are making me HUNGRY!

thanks for the comments so far. sent you a pm, marie. yep, been looking to get a bike for a while ... more so now that i'm spending so much time in l-worth!

i was wondering if anyone has ridden both a specialized enduro (pro) and a kona dawg and can give me some feedback on how differently they handle. thanks!

thanks for the tr. good to know this route is still in prime condition!

l-worth has managed to stay dry most of the weekends i've been there - which has been quite a few over the past couple of months. it was pretty hot this saturday. a bit cooler on sunday with the wind and some cloud cover, though - great climbing weather!

glad you made it to the top ... and back down safely.

$47K for breasts and buttocks? what a lousy cover-up!

tough. condolences to his friends and family ...

what if you don't have an altimeter watch? i noticed there is also one etrex model that has the barometric altimeter. do you think it would be better to have separate gps and altimeters? (i guess battery-wise perhaps it would be?)