1994 MSA:
[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwp6ER3ApHY[/video]
Muddy, wheels on the ground type stuff by current WC standards I’d say…
I don’t think a V10 would be much of an advantage there and then, TBH a Bronson or similar #Enduro chariot with a good pair of modern 2.5″ general purpose UST tyres would probably be more use…
A really big travel bike like the V10 would be largely pointless, but slack angles and 5-6″ of suspension that let a rider carry more speed in and out of blown out, flat corners and over rocks and roots could have a taken a bottom – mid place finishing rider of the day to the podium I reckon…
Don’t forget we this was only a couple of years before Palmer and Intense M1’s hit downhill and arguably started turning it into what we’d recognise today as “Modern” DH…