Got to ride the new Ibis Mojo full sus bike last week. Full carbon frame, big 'ol Fox fork on the front, 5.5" at both ends. Big tires, big brakes, big wide bars...big fun! The last time i rode a mountain bike previous to this was back at Deer Valley where i did 2.3 runs of the super-d course on a borrowed Kona demo bike. This time i got to take our shops' Mojo demo bike out to the single track at Tamarancho, up here in Marin. At least i could ride it on trails that i sorta know... a little bit.
I met one of the guys from the shop at the Javahut in hippy-ville at 8.30am and we started up Iron Springs to the Boy Scout camp. Holy crap... that bike is soooo much fun, i think i need to own one. But not 'til the shop sells our demo and i can't ride it anymore. Hell, i'd probably buy the demo, it's even a cool green color that Chuck calls "pond scum". It's got the new '08 XT stuff bolted on, and nice DT wheels w/ some sticky Kendas w/ Stan's inside. We rode all kinds of terrain and i messed around w/ the Fox fork and rear shock; the one w/ the ProPedal set-up. I had everything all locked up for the road climb, then opened it up for the trails. Both ends are really adjustable and easy to set up for great performance. Everything was going great 'til we had about 10mins of riding left and i flatted. No big deal, being a pro mechanic/bike shop service manager type guy, right? No big deal 'til both of us realized we had spare tubes, but in our haste to ride new demo bikes we both forgot to bring any way of getting air into them. Dohhhhhhh. At this point my mountain bike ride turned into 20mins of cx training, w/ the emphasis on the running part. I ran/pushed up single track. And down single track. Then i said screw it and i jumped back on and rode the flat on some smooth stuff. Then i ran some more, before we finally reached the road back down into town, which i rode down verrrryyyy slowly.
I'm riding that bike again tomorrow night and you can damn well bet i'll have a spare tube AND some CO2 cartridges w/ me!
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