Crackhead stole my 96 wahoo. I still look for that frame when I see them riding an obviously stolen bike. Cut my cable and everything the son of a bitch.
I turned my lil brother on to GF 20yr ago coming from family living on intensity n adrenoline after 4month of research and a really sweet deal $. He got the Fisher I got group deal n I got the Trek bruiser. Seriously hard core bike but wasn't the Fisher. (I always wanted) grr. But ended up using Fisher designed accessories. Cranks handlebars gears just not disk brakes n difference was night n day with the squatted square frame of the Trek it took me through terrains others would look at n say no way. With little effort. Even hung myself 6ft Ina tree off a 20ft downhill run into a 8ft climb into a corner I missed. Overshot it all ended up Ina tree w both tires going up it. I came off n the tree held bike. 20min getting it back. Unharmed. Lol. Gary Fisher I'll never buy anything but. Good job.
❤️ my Maxxis 29" 2.3' DHF frt tire on my 2014 x cal 8 g2 geometry frame & 100 mm g2 xc32 rock shox now that the three spacers in the headset are all @ the top.
His company made some great bikes that even today. People pay insane money on flea bay. Then he sold his company to Trek which in my opinion are over priced bikes made in china. He was an innovator yes, but what has he done lately? Talk....
I have a 1998 Gary Fisher Paragon, it's black, that was the year they had the weird hippie trippie logo, if some remember it. It's so weird you have to do a double take to figure out what it says. I ended up changing to riser handlebars and a stem that angles upward so I could ride in a more comfortable position. I also changed out the derailleur/shifter/brake levers to a Sram 9.0 grip shift, which most don't like but I love, it was the best I could get at the time. Changed out the shock to a Rock Shox Judy long travel and thankfully switched out the awful seat to a SPG foam seat that's actually comfortable to sit on. The last thing I did was get tires that are slick in the middle, and studded on the sides, for on and off road riding. I'm a casual rider for fun only, and to this day over twenty years later (with lots of off time for tv watching) the bike still performs incredibly well. The frame is top notch aluminum American made and it's light, fun and easy to ride. The pedals are just regular ones with a cage for the foot, so I can wear sneakers instead of the snap on bike shoes people wear. I don't wear bike clothing, just shorts and a t-shirt and sneakers, nothing fancy. BTW, the handlebar/stem combo change makes it so you can ride it without having to be hunched over all the time. It's built for comfort and aggressive riding if that's what I want. Sort of the best of all worlds. Lastly it's a great looking bike, but as a hardtail it's not built for the type of advanced trails a duel suspension bike can handle, I tried that once and about broke my back. This bike is for light to average trails, road riding, and easily switching between the two on the fly. It still rides as good as the day I bought it, when the Gary Fisher line was a sort of hippie Woodstock alternative to the corporate choices, marketing at it's finest, but it still felt more organic at the time. Oh yeah, one more thing, it had the "Genesis" geometry that was supposed to revolutionize the mountain bike industry. Did it? Don't know, but it was still a great example of how to use marketing to sell a product. It is very easy to ride, and extremely stable on steep downhill inclines.
He likes bikes and biking. He is designing the perfect bike for him. I don't know Jack about bikes but I have 4 it 5 in my apt. My some loves his bikes.
What sad is it's 2018, and this is the first video walking me through how the linkage works. Yes, I went to the Niner website, and no, there was just a wall of text - no video. Niner should really update their website....
Proud owner of a 2004 Trek 3500 riding on Bontrager L3T tires....48/38/28T Crank and boys and girls....my old legs thank me for that! Those Gary Fisher bikes in the video were super expensive in 2011. They go for a steal used now. Rode the Mamba and it was dope!
The Fisher Excalibur was a one year model only, 1985. It was renamed ProCaliber in 1986. Both the Excalibur and ProCaliber were imports, not US hand built models.
Can someone please help me with what's going on with my situation. Ok i have a GF 2010 Wahoo Disc i recently bought off of Craigslist. Now, when i ride i like to stand up probably 80% of the time but it had a strange feeling while doing this, it's like their is a magnet that wants to pull the bike to the middle and ride straight down the rode, like it is hard to sway back and forth when pedaling while standing up. Kinda like a nice groove or rhythm, if that makes any since. I used to have a 2002 GF Advanced and had no problem and loved it. Also had the 2012 Trek 3900 and same thing no problem. Then i get this and sure it's perfect if you want to only sit down and ride. Because on that part it's like if you get a perfect alignment done on your car and ride down the road and let go of the steering wheel and it just rides straight down the rode. That's what the Wahoo does. So question is... Is it feeling like this to me because of the Genesis Geometry 2 design?
I also wanted to say that on the way home after buying the GF, i stopped off at a bike store and tried out the Trek Marlin 6 2017 and immediately loved it and thought oh god i think i made a mistake on the GF. Then again i looked up the specs for the Trek and said it has the G2 geometry also. But then again it's a 29er and the Wahoo is a 26er. So i don't know what's going on !!!
Well I have a 2008 GF Advance. The bike have done over 25000 km and I'm still using it dialy. Of course everything was changed but the frame is still the same. And I'm really sorry that I can't buy a genuine Gary Fisher bike anymore. I would really like to do it because I am very satisfied with my Advance. Sorry Trek idiots from accounting and marketing but I will not buy a Trek GF.
kleven707 I wonder if that influenced his decision. Trek is based right here in Madison Wi, the second city in the Nation to decriminalize recreational Cannabis over 40yrs ago... Decades before California or Colorado.
