My new ten speed

Above- Shots from the Crest Crank on the Monarch Crest Trail and the start of the Vapor 125 Enduro.

After a summer of watching all of the cool kids ride around the block on their cool bikes I finally broke down and bought one of my own.
If there's one thing that people in Salida love to do it's probably boating the Ark, but for the rest of the season they love to ride bicycles.
Most of the folk here have at least two if not five rides. The townie or cruiser is a must, then there's the mountain bikes (one for downhill and a single speed 29er for cross country) and the road bikers have road bikes. People love their bikes so much a town of about 6,000 people supports three bike shops.
I got the bug riding the Crest Crank in early September with my buddy Brian Ward after working a deal to get a free loaner from Absolute.
After a lot of shopping I finally turned up a bike at a garage sale for just over a hundo. Well it might not be the cool ten speed I was holding my breath for, but it will get me around the trials until I find something better.