Hello and welcome to the forum I rode xc in 2000-2002, then went into trials, but kept riding my xc bike. Roughly in 2003 I got into freeride and downhill, mostly doing drops and technical dh. After having a crash in 2003 and braking my bb on a big drop to flat, I stopped riding fr/dh and just stuck to trials. In 2004 I started riding street/trials on my downhill bike (just for fun), and liked it so much I slimmed the bike down to 14kgs and kept it. So, since 2001 I've been running two bikes. Now I ride trials only, either on my trials bike or the full sus.