I noticed that my knees hit the handlebars on the Atomic so when I showed my dad that I was too tall for the it, he suggested that I use his Demo 8. I rode it around, and after a few changes and swapping out some parts (he didn’t want to part with his pedals) it felt really good. I rode this bike and didn’t have many complaints about it for three years. In late summer 2012 I replaced the bearings and put on a new Marzocchi 888 Titanium fork, which made it much lighter than using the original 888. The only complaint I had with this bike was after time, spokes on the rear wheel would continually get loose or break. I learned later that this was normal on an older bike that has the original wheel on it. Overall, this was a very good bike that I got used to within the first couple rides around the yard. There wasn’t much adjustment that you had to deal with, and the bike just worked. Unfortunately, that year of Demo’s had a factory default issue. When I met someone while riding Vancouver’s North Shore, he showed me two cracks under the seat and explained that if I was the original owner of the bike, I could get a new one for free because of the lifetime warranty. I only rode the bike a few more days after that because the crack kept on getting bigger and bigger.
