Same bike, but wider bars, slightly longer forks and a dropper

5 years ago I had one bike, a Reign. Now I still have one bike but it is the bike I’d wanted at the time, an Intense 6.6
I’m still riding the same trails on the Malverns but doing it all faster and enjoying it more..

How time flies. My Prophet was new 5 years ago.

Still got it. Only thing still original is the frame and forks. Tubeless, wider bars, shorter stem, dropper etc.

Sometimes I feel like a change, but it’s still pretty good to be fair.

My 2007 Heckler sold it the end of 2009 bought it feb 2007, had a good time on it , even went to the Alps 😀

5 years,still living in the UK and most likely killing myself commuting to and working in East London, yuck. Doing loads of riding though, swinley and the chilterns and pretty regular trips down to bristol. I think thats when my mates discovered rowberrow and the tracks there.

Now out in WA, working less, for more money bur riding less and probably not as fit. As trade off’s go it could be worse ha.

5 years ago i was still riding my full suss Heckler at Glentress etc but not much as riding my first Katate Monkey rigid 29er on coastal trails here in East Lothian.

Was also riding my Surly Pugsley fatbike alone around the coast and trails here in East Lothian alone and looked at like a freak by other (usualy road) riders 😆 🙂

Now there is loads of folk riding fatbikes around the coast and trails here in East Lothian and are also looked at like freaks by other (usualy road) riders 😆 🙂
Est 60 -80 freaks turning up at Forth Fat in 2 weeks, so guess some things have changed for some in the tyre width department 🙂

Sold all bikes with suspension now as no need for our singletrack trails around here and never go to trail centres anymore. I bought/built some drop bar off roadable bikes and enjoying them as suited to our trails and green lanes and hill tracks i can ride to from home.
Still cycle nearly every day to work and often detour off road on the way home.

Film quality of my compact cameras have improved a bit, spelling is still as bad on the blog 🙂

5 years ago
[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSM_7ZG1lhU[/video]

last month same trail, different Monkey, different set up – newer compact camera
[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QfszhSaUKE&list=UUSv198UD3Wy-dBsg3K40IvQ[/video]

5 years ago I didn’t have a road bike. Now I have 3 🙂

5 years ago I was riding a 100mm BeOne Karma hardtail. I had just got back into mountain biking about 6 months at that point. I regretted not getting back into it sooner. I’m now still on my 4 year old Meta 5 and about to embark on a full season of Irish enduro racing.

Postierich, top pic vs OP pic.. You are mikewsmith aren’t you? : )

Here, 5 years has seen more change than the last 15. From 26″ HT with middling HA, 27-30 gears and 710mm bars on rides of up to 5-6hrs to a rigid 29er with bigger rims / heavier tyres, 1-12 gears, h-bars and longer rides of up to 15-20hrs, or days.
Having been on longer-forked, big-barred compact HTs since ’97 ish it all changed quite a lot in the last 4-5 years, longer rides, clicking with SS more full-time and bikepacking bags changed what MTB is for me and I got a bit fitter overall. Still riding on the road about 30-40% of my time and still ride the same local trails in the same way, some of it quicker, some of it about the same, just with a bit less room for error. I guess I just got old )

5 years ago I would have been in the middle of a few years out of riding altogether. I still had 3 bikes from 04 sat in the garage, a 100mm race/trail FS, a 120mm jump HT, and a decent alloy road bike.

I started riding again about 3 years ago and added a 29er 120mm FS last year, finally going tubeless. Frankly my back thanked me and it definitely suits the loose and rocky trails here. When it gets cooler I plan to recapture and develop my jumping having bought pads and full facer. The 26 FS seems tiny now and will only get used when I have to service the 29er. I don’t really like riding road here, group rides start between 5 and 7am and don’t seem to go further than 70km.