Hi all... my name is Corey, though most of my friends in Portland know me as LC. I'm 33 years old and living in Portland, Oregon, one of the finest bike towns I've ever had the pleasure of living in. I've been riding since I was 5 and have relied on bikes as primary transportation at one point or another in every city or town I've ever lived (Sacramento, CA to Plymouth,NH back to Sac then to Boston,MA to Santa Barbara,CA to LA,CA and finally to Portland where I hope to stick around for a while). I was big into BMX well into my 20s when I moved back to Cali to work in the industry and got snookered into mountain biking. Presently I commute 3-4 days by bike and bus on the others.
Which brings me to how I got here. My daily ride is a 2003 Electra Rat Rod, mostly stock with a few vanity mods, and it isn't exactly tailored to either of the hills I work or live on. I've got a MTB that would probably be better suited to the task if I slapped some road oriented tires on it, but the cruiser is more my personal style so I've been toying with either modding it up or building a new bike better suited to climbing and bombing the hills but still keeping a hot rod flavor. So I stumbled across this site and now have a billion ideas racing through my mind and figured I'd better join up.
I guess that's me in a nutshell. Here's my present stable of bikes: 1998 Dekerf Team SL, 2003 Electra Rat Rod, 1996 Standard STA
Which brings me to how I got here. My daily ride is a 2003 Electra Rat Rod, mostly stock with a few vanity mods, and it isn't exactly tailored to either of the hills I work or live on. I've got a MTB that would probably be better suited to the task if I slapped some road oriented tires on it, but the cruiser is more my personal style so I've been toying with either modding it up or building a new bike better suited to climbing and bombing the hills but still keeping a hot rod flavor. So I stumbled across this site and now have a billion ideas racing through my mind and figured I'd better join up.
I guess that's me in a nutshell. Here's my present stable of bikes: 1998 Dekerf Team SL, 2003 Electra Rat Rod, 1996 Standard STA