Guess I should give some details, sorry I'm a little slow...
So bought my 08 700xx early this year, love everything about it except the crappy rims which I can see from the forum I'm not the only one. Anyway never really planned on doing any mods to it before I got on the forum here. About a month ago I slid off the trail in a corner and caught a stump with my rear tire in 3rd gear, I got off lucky with some colorful bruises and some stitches but the bike not so much...new steering column, steering linkage, a couple a-arms etc etc...and some new ITP tires/rims I hopefully will be picking it up tomorrow. Other then that I'm from northern Maryland and do most of my riding in southern Pennsylvania.