oh man, your handle never even occured to me! (figured it was some homosexual term or something). I used to race XC, raced in the Ontario Cup a few years, did pretty well... but then i started taking my workouts way more seriously, and my upper body got way too big and slowed me down a lot to ever place top 10. So then I changed to trials, which was kinda boring, so i made my own adaption of street trials/urban riding. I built up a fucking awesome bike from scratch... norco team trials frame, Z1 on the front, rhino rims, SRAM9.0 the full way, Mag HS breaks.... cost me around $3000.... then it got stolen when i went to school... so id rather spend my money elsewhere now, so I just have my XC race bike left
i take it you ride a bullit? one of my best friends is sponsored by santa cruz, and they hooked him up with a Super 8... i dunno what he rides now though, a V10 i think...
I'm torn. It's hard to look cool when you're wearing one of those helmets. And since I have the maturity level of a high schooler I want to look cool at all times so I usually don't wear a helmet.
I ride up to 125 miles a week and I would never consider going without a helmet on and you couldn't pay me enough to ride with headphones on. I want to be able to hear screeching tires, horns, "hey lookout!" before it's too late.