Specialized Rockhopper FSR

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I didn't get to love it for very long, but I loved that damn bike. It was my first full suspension bike. I wasn't in the market for a new bike, full suspension or otherwise, but, one night after work I was bored, so I stopped at a bike shop on the way home, merely intending to browse. After a test ride, I walked out with a last-year's model Specialized Rockhopper FSR, equipped with a Manitou Answer fork, for just 600 bucks. I put over 2000 miles on the thing that summer, dialing it in as I trained for various charity rides. And just like that, it was gone, stolen from my neighbourhood bar, a bar that I, as well as others, had had no problems riding bikes to for a few years. I can't prove it, but I'm about 99% certain it was you, JOHN, and I hope it pitched you over the handlebars, causing permanent injury, the first time you rode it. It was nobody's fault but my own, and I now use high-tech, near-theft-proof locks (it taught me that valuable lesson, if nothing else,) but I was devastated at the time. I hadn't had a bicycle stolen from me since I was a kid. No lock is completely theft-proof, but a really good one is worth the expense. Especially if you lock up your ride next to easier to steal bikes. Lesson learned, the hard way, but learned nonetheless.