My bike is pretty damn old Tas, bought it myself when I was 14 or so (with paper round money... lol)
Its a cro-moly hard-tail... RST elastomer shocks up front, STX-RC/LX driveline... LX brakes, the older ones with the tiny handles (which I love). Its still perfect, driveline is great, brakes pull up on a dime and you can throw it around a fair bit.
Two sets of wheels, new mavic rims with deore hubs (light motherfuckers) these are running green slick verdenstein tyres. My older rims have my MTB tyres on them, so I can do as many skids as I like. You know how you use the locked up rear wheel to steer sometimes, shit like that.
I used to ride EVERYWHERE, that changed when I got my car.
I did ride too and from work for a while when I fucked my auto box in the car, then continued that for a little while... but riding to work at 5:30 in the morning got too hard! I love going out and hitting a complex, challenging trail. One of the better ones I love is out near Ayres Inlet (near Angelsea, just down the coast). Its a steep motherfucker, then once you get to the top there are always 2-3 wedgetailed eagles soaring around on the updraft from the end of the valley/start of the otways.
Then you hammer back down, jumping over anything thats too big to roll over
My bike is at the back, with the fucking slick up-front (got a flat on the MTB tyres 1hr before me left, so rode the trails on a slick front tyre and knobbly back one... haha)
I guess this all comes from my old man being a hardcore roadie, with his two bikes (one for training, one for racing). Races every sunday and rides at least 2 times a week.