About
…this website and myself
Tanja de Bie (1974), Apeldoorn the Netherlands
tanja [at] mountainbike [dot] nl (or mail me using this form here)
Portfolio of riding pictures here on Flickr.com
Short bio, how it all began…
In 1995 I started mountainbiking, I was looking for a cool hobby that would make up for me sitting behind a computer all day long (see my workrelated blog here). After a few years I bought a ‘light’ freerider and I thought I’d have years of fun with it. Within 6 months I traded it in for a Santa Cruz Bullit. An awesome allround freeride/downhill bike: finished the Megavalanche in 2003 and 2004 with it and even became the Dutch national champion Downhill in 2005.
Currently
In februari 2009 I welcomed a new member of the family: Trek Remedy 7, or as I would like to call it: the Session’s ambitious little brother for a score to settle!

About this site and contact details
- To get in touch with me: please use this form. I usually answer my mails the same day.
- RSS feeds can be grabbed here.
- All photo’s are hosted on Flickr.com.
History of bikes (read blogpost)
- 1995-1995 no-name steel rig with plastic pedals
- 1995-1997 Batavus Hunter Carbon Pro
- 1997-2000 Coyote Easton (Team Liersen Eemnes)
- 2001-2003 Giant XTC Big Bear
- 2003-2003 Da Bomb Cherry Bomb
- 2003-2005 Sunn Cross UN Singlespeed
- 2003-2005 Santa Cruz Bullit
- 2004-2004 GT Moto toxic green
- 2005-2005 Specialized Enduro (1998 model)
- 2006-2006 Ghost ERT5700 (Team Ghost Bikes Nederland)
- 2006-2006 Ghost Team Worldcup DH
- 2007-present Rocky Mountain Switch (Team Stappenbelt.com)
- 2007-present Gazelle steel rig Singlespeed (1994 model)
- 2007-2007 Mongoose alu cruiser (bmx)
- 2008-present Redline Proline Cruiser
- 2008-2009 Banshee Scirocco
- 2008-2009 Inbred On One
- 2009-present Trek Remedy 7
