Remember….
Titanium flex stem bar combo – I lusted after one of these for years

Profile aero bars on mountain bikes or the Scott AT4’s

Any parts you lusted over back in the day?

Ringlé skewers, the original ones. Got some via RetroBike about a year ago, the Ti versions, for about £20. Happy happy, joy joy!

The Monolith rebound fullsusser.

mountain goat whiskey town frame………….still looking too

Englund(spelling?)
air cartridge for my judys.

Pauls components rear mech.
Manitou Full Suss frame.
And ball burnished Zaskar, had an anodized one but the polished ones still have a spot on ol’ takisawa’s heart.

I know of some scott AT4 bars for sale…

Pauls Moon Unit canti straddle cable hangers
Grafton Speed Stix cranks
First generation XTR
Tioga Drisc Drive

Remember the crud claw and DCD especially in ano purple?
I remember spening £13 as a teenager on an x lite titanium seat bolt, seemed to make my bike go faster at the time, probably weighed more than the original

Specialized S/works steel 1995

Rode it again last night fast as hell head down arse up but

135mm stem
Narrrow bars
Canti’s
Rigid

Yep retro tastic until it get a little bit rough

And you have bugger all control 😯

off in a bit to do the same loop on my 2007 trance or simple but in control 😀

Or could it be that in my late 40’s I am getting soft 😳

I remember when t-bone stems were considered high end

I’m relatively immune to component envy

But I do remember that phase just before suspension got going when the mags were weight obsessed and yes anodised purple

I think I was amazed to see on of these at a race

THe trimble, just found it with google

altough I think the one I saw had rigid forks

Yep Trimble was definatley a bike I lusted after, I remember only ever seeing one in a sort of tiger stripe paint job in a US magazine

Oh and U brakes as found on GT’s, actually seemed to work quite well

Boulder defiant FS was the first totally OTT bike I really wanted.

Pineapple hubs (think they were made by Clark Kent?) where each hub had extra flanges in the centre – totally impractical but lovely anyway…

Etto helmets, giro bottle rockets and oakley frogskins combined with garish lycra mmm!

I always wanted a set of Cooks Bros cranks, the original dog bone type in black. For some reason, I ended up putting silver topline cranks of my fuss sus maniitou frame instead.

i always wanted a zinn – it had full campag mtb grouppo and 753 tubes, mmmmm

Ditto the Zinn, rode Isla Rowntree’s around their stand at a show at the NEC years ago.

Also a Yo! Eddy and a Funk.

Retrobike.co.uk

For all your retro lustings.

Use the search to find the opbject of your desire. Funks, Boulders & Trimbles are 10 a penny over there, there’s even a monolith! 😉

i always wanted one of those thermoplastic GT full suspension frames. Probably rubbish, but looked damned cool (and obviously some Judy DH (not DHO!) forks to go with it)

Edit: bit like this

Tioga Disc Drive. Still have to have to work hard to resist the lure of them when they come up on eBay or RetroBike. That noise!

Still got a purple Pauls Moon Unit cable hanger on my keyring. I remember I also wore a polished one round my neck for a while in the 90s and it looked pretty darned cool. I mean, obvz – like most of my ‘fashions’ from the 90s – it prolly didn’t, but that’s the way I remember it…

Pauls mechs always did it for me but i could’nt afford/justify spending more cash on a mech than my whole bike(Saracen) was worth at the time.