Just riding along...

[DirtDiva]

Me too! Not that I really do wylde moves (I'm all talk ), but I certainly ride much more challenging terrain in much more isolated places at times.

I've had the bike since July 2005. Goodness knows how may hours of use it's had. A reasonable amount, but nothing over the top. Plus, it's always been treated like the kind of bike it is - a cross country hardtail - not a huck machine. Personally, I think the stock seatpost probably was at fault - barely long enough for a frame of that shape (30cm, perhaps less) and never quite as tight-fitting as it ought to have been. But then again, I know nothing about metal engineering and such.

Anyway, the distributor told me to take it into a local dealer for them to eyeball it and such, so that's where it's at at the moment.