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Phail

I’m still using me Univega 509 (*road tyres pub bike), my Giant Terrago is a stable bike for a mates wife and my Mount Vision (round) is another mates wifes bike.

Hmmm – and I previewed it as well. Shrugs.

Wow. I lusted over some of those bikes back in the day. They look atrocious now. Pleased to be reminded of the OnZa Octopus tyre. 😆

Oh. And the pic appeared once I’d viewed the link.

I still have some M900 XTR f+r mechs, rear XT M737 mech, M737 crankset, Machinetech front hub, Hope Suspension hub, and a pair of Ringlé TiStix skewers what to be honest aren’t as good as a set of basic Shimano ones really.

The rest of the kit is proper quality gear. Better than current offerings in that respect, imo.

Is it just me, or does that Cannondale look like a Moulton?

ok, i am old, i remember seeing those ads when they first came out.

And yes i know they’re crap but i really want a tioga disc drive, nothing but nothing has the same prescence, the sound as one rips round the woods……

Those were the days…really regret selling my old Bonty (esp since it had Manitou 3s, Revolvers and proper sized chain rings – what is it with 42t ‘big’ rings?).

I lusted after nearly all of those. Especially the GT Xizang. Spin wheels too. I wonder how many of them survive today?

Anyone got old Orange ads? Especially the ones with the E3(?) on and the ‘take the pith out the opposition’ – and can Orange re-release that on a t-shirt…

I use to have some of those Ringle hubs, seat post and bottle cages in green. I also had one of those AMP 3 frames but with RS mag21 on it 😳

I use to have loads of old brochures had most of the Cannondales from the early ninety’s onwards. Think the only one i’ve got left is an old Merlin Cycle works with the original price list somewhere.

Oh man, the MBUK page with the Smoke and Dart review and the Manitou 3s, that’s like a timewarp back to my fourteen-year-old self. I remember reading that very page incredibly clearly. Crazy.

I needed those tyres though, no mum, you don’t understand, I *need* them, what’s this? Oh, more socks FINE. Never did get a Smoke and Dart set, oh well…

Lusted after most of that kit. Still remember when a full XT dream bike was £600! I am now something of a cliched fat mid thirties pootler rather than skinny whippet.

Still using my Ringle H2O bottle cage to this day, still looking good as new – don’t make things like they used to….much stronger and lighter these days!

There was a chap racing on a Xizang at 10 Under the Ben when we were there… He was kind enough to not believe I was old enough to have lusted after one first time round