Cherry Bicycles Custom Dear John Mountain Bike

Garryck Hampton in front of the Olympic Bridge in Seoul Korea.

Builders description of this bike.

An affordable ATB for a life time of plowing the fields or woods thrashing! Tractor Green! Built with the legendary Patco seamless 4130 Air Craft tubing, the Dear John is a "bike busters" best built bike.

A comment from Garryck regarding his BTC equipped bike.

"Steve, I spoke with you at the bike show in Anaheim. At the time I was the Master Tech for the REI store in Northridge, CA. I was waiting for my custom Cherry. Well it came and I love it!! I had a few months with it in California before I came here to Korea. I did and epic four day 560 miles all out push from San Francisco to Los Angles fully loaded as a test. If you only have four days off you have to do it in four. Plus I got in some great high speed fire road descents, and tons of tight single track. I even made some spiked tires and got some winter snow riding in before I left. I am going to attempt to ride up to the DMZ. I will see how far I can get. I meet so many bikers here that wish they could have brought their bike. The S and S Coupling saved me. I could not think of living without my bike. Thank you so much for such a wonderful product. A lot of the time I have to hop on a subway to get to a good riding destination so I just put it in its back pack, go to the desired stop, put the pack in a locker, and then hammer. It's the best!!! "
Garryck Hampton, cyclist, Seoul Korea (on a Cherry Bicycles custom Dear John)

Garryck stops to be photographed with a soldier at the demilitarized zone (DMZ) of Korea. ..

Comments from Garryck regarding his DMZ adventure

The photo
- Here is my picture from the DMZ. The dirt road that we are standing on was right along the mine field . I eventually was right next to the border fence. All the Korean people I show this picture to think I'm (pabo) "crazy".

The ride
- "Well I had to share my excitement with you all! I successfully made it to the border between north and south Korea. By having a very terrible map, and a lot of luck. I was able to make it right next to the fence. I took about twenty miles of wrong turns (It was a really bad map!). The border is only about 20 miles from Seoul, but the whole trip was 80 miles for me, as I said I made a lot of wrong turns. I finally ended up on a dirt road through a farming village. It kept looking like it was going to end, but it kept going. It took me past a sort of water processing plant, for all I know, and then through a tunnel under a road. Imagine my surprise when I got to the other side. What I came across was a deep concrete pit, some sort of tank trap, running as far as I can see in both directions, perpendicular to me. Then there was a long field with masses of barbed wire fence, guard towers, and bunkers on the opposite side. I started along the double track next to the tank trap passing two small guard houses. I think they saw me pass the second, cuz soldiers with big assault rifles were waiting for me when I got to the third. I tried to pay dumb, when they asked me (in Korean) where I was going. Once I realized they were going to be cool about the whole thing I stated using my bit of Korean. They were soon more interested in my bike, rather than national security. They ended up letting me take my picture with them, and then informed me that I would have to hike my bike up to the road and then go back to Seoul. The road back took me right along the fence line, and the giant speakers that blare propaganda across the border. The guards along the fence line looked at me with the most confused looks, not exactly sure what to make of a rider up along the border. This has to be one of my most epic rides. It is not a screaming fire road, a tight single track, or an long ride in the country (well sort of, just a really different country), but it had its own flair you just can't find anywhere else, but I don't think I will push my luck and try again to go back"
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