I got my first mountain bike back in 1994. I was using folding bikes (Csepel "Camping") before that.
I build my own bikes since years including wheel lacing and servicing suspension forks.
See My bikes and related pages:
IRC
I can be found on the current r/bicycling IRC channel (2012: #/r/bicycling @ FreeNode, 2013: #bicycling @ snoonet)
Bike holidays
The planning of our Adriatic (Istria) 2011 bike trip