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Robert C. Big Ring Offline Leaves are the ultimate trail maintenance tool Posts: 1806 Location: Available upon request Joined: 11/22/04	The first trail you rode in Charlotte - When/ Bike 03/18/20 at 1:36pm	Print Post
	Renni 1997 (ish) Mongoose IBOC full rigid. The frame is still in the crawl under my house


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traildog Big Ring Offline warning! SS carrier Posts: 1284 Joined: 05/12/05	Re: The first trail you rode in Charlotte - When/ Bike Reply #1 - 03/18/20 at 2:00pm	Print Post
	Catawba, '96? Walmart Murray with my two sons on their equally expensive bikes. Hated it; I was more into the road riding at the time and my sons were kicking my a__! I'm still riding, they're not.


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BigBikeMike Project Board Offline Work Ride Tarheel Trailblazers Posts: 1593 Joined: 06/14/09	Re: The first trail you rode in Charlotte - When/ Bike Reply #2 - 03/18/20 at 2:21pm	Print Post
	Lets see! I'm thinking it was about 1998 and I rode a Raleigh M80 that my sister had and it was on a greenway. It was either the one in south Charlotte or the one close to the UNCC.


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TrillWill IB Room In The Loop Project Board Offline THTB Board member 16'-23' LKN TC Posts: 1027 Location: Cornelius Joined: 06/14/11	Re: The first trail you rode in Charlotte - When/ Bike Reply #3 - 03/18/20 at 2:23pm	Print Post
	North Meck Park in 2007 on a 1999 GT power series 1.0 BMX.

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Cherokee Little Ring Offline Posts: 748 Location: Concord Joined: 08/07/06	Re: The first trail you rode in Charlotte - When/ Bike Reply #4 - 03/18/20 at 4:43pm	Print Post
	It was early summer of 2000 on a Trek 820 hardtail purchased from Shane at BikeLine. My wife bought a Trek 800. Our first ride was on the perimeter trail at Frank Liske Park, as our purpose in getting mtn bikes was so we could ride park trails with our daughters (who were just starting to ride) since our road is too dangerous. I think my first real trail was at Renni, but it may have been N Meck. When I bought that first mtn bike so I could get off road, I had no idea it would change my life. It became one of my greatest passions and a major cornerstone of my fitness. My wife and I ride often together (she's cautious, but awesome), we've biked in 5 states and have organized 2 vacations around mtn biking.
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	"The state is the great fiction by which each of us seeks to live at the expense of all of us." --19th century French economist Frederic Bastiat
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Yellowduck Big Ring Offline Work Ride Tarheel Trailblazers Posts: 1537 Location: Concord Joined: 04/28/10	Re: The first trail you rode in Charlotte - When/ Bike Reply #5 - 03/18/20 at 5:25pm	Print Post
	1995 - Poplar Tent, Giant Yukon. Thought I was going to die and almost swore off MTB forever.

	"Riding skinny is too easy" -MB
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Tom F In The Loop Offline I'm ready. Get the bike. Posts: 2028 Location: Can-of-pooless, NC Joined: 08/06/10	Re: The first trail you rode in Charlotte - When/ Bike Reply #6 - 03/18/20 at 5:35pm	Print Post
	September 2005 Poplar Tent or N Meck 2002 Superlight or 1998 S-works

	2011 (frame) Santa Cruz Superlight & Stumpy Comp (1999), 2017 Tallboy C RX2 22Levo
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Stinkys Cafe Newbie Offline Work Ride Tarheel Trailblazers Posts: 14 Joined: 09/20/12	Re: The first trail you rode in Charlotte - When/ Bike Reply #7 - 03/18/20 at 5:49pm	Print Post
	Moved here in late 98...first real trail in CLT was Poplar Tent. Also had a Mongoose IBOC....Mine was a silver 96 SX with the Judy on the front


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chris Small Cog Offline I love YaBB 1G - SP1! Posts: 283 Location: charlotte Joined: 09/22/04	Re: The first trail you rode in Charlotte - When/ Bike Reply #8 - 03/18/20 at 6:33pm	Print Post
	first trail was pt in 98 on a jeep bike form sears. remember buying my first good bike at bike line shortly after that. traildog just happened to come in and give me some advise on what to get. left there with a sugar 3 and road till it fell apart.


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Shredder Big Ring Offline Posts: 2077 Joined: 01/12/05	Re: The first trail you rode in Charlotte - When/ Bike Reply #9 - 03/18/20 at 7:35pm	Print Post
	Had a Schwinn High Sierra in black chrome in 1986 that I rode at Reedy Creek Park and maybe some places on the UNCC campus where I evidently convinced some folks to put up NO BIKES signs.


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Metalmok Coaster Bike Offline I would rather ride than work Posts: 112 Location: Mint Hill, NC Joined: 02/22/10	Re: The first trail you rode in Charlotte - When/ Bike Reply #10 - 03/18/20 at 7:40pm	Print Post
	Sherman Branch 2009 I broke my seatpost. 2005 Giant Trance 4. Still riding it too, I need a new bike...
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	Please consider the environment before you... ...play your Bluetooth speaker in the woods.
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SurlyDave Small Cog Offline Work Ride Tarheel Trailblazers Posts: 326 Location: Indian Trail Joined: 09/03/12	Re: The first trail you rode in Charlotte - When/ Bike Reply #11 - 03/18/20 at 10:23pm	Print Post
	1990 on the trails around the then abandoned rock quarry between Crown Point shopping center and Margret Wallace road. This was just a natural progression beyond McAlpine park which was my childhood haunt. It wasn't until '93 or '94 that I loaded my bike into a truck and drove to trails. Catawba (which I used to call Sam Wilson Rd.) UNCC, Auto Doctor by the airport, and Poplar Tent were in the rotation. UNCC had some huge gravity cavities and what seemed like 25 miles of trails and was my fav at that time. I quit riding from about '95 to about 2001 for some reason.


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IntheBush Big Ring Offline Posts: 2031 Location: South of the border Joined: 10/30/09	Re: The first trail you rode in Charlotte - When/ Bike Reply #12 - 03/18/20 at 10:47pm	Print Post
	1972... Schwinn Stingray. What trail.

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Robert C. Big Ring Offline Leaves are the ultimate trail maintenance tool Posts: 1806 Location: Available upon request Joined: 11/22/04	Re: The first trail you rode in Charlotte - When/ Bike Reply #13 - 03/18/20 at 10:56pm	Print Post
	IntheBush wrote on 03/18/20 at 10:47pm: 1972... Schwinn Stingray. What trail. Banana seat and all? My first Schwinn shop also sold lawnmowers. Actually think that was their main business.


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IntheBush Big Ring Offline Posts: 2031 Location: South of the border Joined: 10/30/09	Re: The first trail you rode in Charlotte - When/ Bike Reply #14 - 03/18/20 at 11:58pm	Print Post
	)) Yep. Looked just like this.. Built like a tank.. And you could get some good leverage with the high bars out of the seat. (You need to *Login* or *Register* to view media files and links) If I had one that fit today.. I feel like I could jump on it and rip down many trails almost as well as the bikes I ride today.. One minus.. Sliding off the back of the seat to attack some steep downhill line aint exactly happenin'. But there is room for your gf, etc..
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worker-rider In The Loop Offline Posts: 962 Location: concord nc Joined: 12/18/04	Re: The first trail you rode in Charlotte - When/ Bike Reply #15 - 03/19/20 at 12:48am	Print Post
	First MTB was a 1985 Schwinn High Sierra black chrome. Paid 75 and an Eric Clapton ticket. First trail was BYT the MD side right out of our backyard hence the name. Built by a few of us out of necessity. Just got the bike back and after a few changes its hitting BYT again.


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Impaler 58 Big Ring Offline Posts: 2111 Location: Statesville Joined: 01/21/09	Re: The first trail you rode in Charlotte - When/ Bike Reply #16 - 03/19/20 at 8:29am	Print Post
	LNSP 2006, Gary Fisher Sugar. Only six miles of trail there at the time.


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teamdicky Big Ring Offline Which way is out? Posts: 2929 Joined: 10/27/04	Re: The first trail you rode in Charlotte - When/ Bike Reply #17 - 03/19/20 at 11:09am	Print Post
	Moved to Charlotte (the University area) in '96 and found the ROTC trails just dicking around the apartments on an AMP Research B3. First official trail was Renni. I also remember that back then, it was hard to get anyone to tell you much of anything about the BYT. You just had to "go find it for yourself."

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wtacoma Newbie Offline Work Ride Tarheel Trailblazers Posts: 32 Location: York, SC Joined: 01/02/11	Re: The first trail you rode in Charlotte - When/ Bike Reply #18 - 03/19/20 at 12:02pm	Print Post
	Poplar Tent 2006, when I first moved to this beautiful area. Santa Cruz Blur.


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Erl Newbie Offline Work Ride Tarheel Trailblazers Posts: 38 Location: SW CLT Joined: 09/27/09	Re: The first trail you rode in Charlotte - When/ Bike Reply #19 - 03/19/20 at 1:10pm	Print Post
	2000 Reni on Walmart Bike


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