I started as a kid on a 90’s Bianchi BMX race bike. Friends and I would spend hours in the forest hitting jumps and bombing hills with no brakes. Road a bunch of cheap box store bikes in high school that never lasted. Then a family friend loaned me his Norco Bigfoot for a summer and got me hooked on wanting a ‘real’ bike. I ended up buying a used 2001 Devinci Desperado in college as my first real bike and road that thing until it wasn’t worth repairing anymore.