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Bear, please tell me you had the full spec! With the Dr Dews and the Future Shock! Two of the greatest/worst evolutionary dead ends in MTB history!
Bear, please tell me you had the full spec! With the Dr Dews and the Future Shock! Two of the greatest/worst evolutionary dead ends in MTB history!
Ashamedly, I can't pretend to remember what they were?!
It was fully original though, I got it with Project 2 and suntour kit all round (still a mystery what defined the "pro" element, I always thought it was the suntour XC Pro kit). I remember the hubs has grease ports, which were flippin' genius.
I stuck RC35's on it, which I think were off my previous grey Cannondale M500, with an obscene amount of purple bolts.
I was a bloody legend on that bike, trackstanding all around Torquay and bunny hopping off/over anything that got in my way 😀
1988 Hardrock similar to that pictured on Page 1 and a upgraded Kona Cinder Cone (pic of actual bike in Page 5) which I still have 🙂
Same bike as I ride these days 😀
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Well I only ride it when its dry weather as a second bike. I nipped out on it a few weeks ago, when I took the picture, intending to only be out half an hour and it turned into a 2 hour ride as I rode back to where I grew up and took it round the old trails ( well what's left of them ) just chilling out and remembering the old days.
Raleigh Avanti mtb - Full XT and 531 frame. Bought used and I never rode it off road 😳
Dawes Horizon tourer - my student commuter bike, 501 frame as I couldn't afford 531.
EDIT: I still have the XT thumb shifters on one of the tandems, but the rest have long gone.
No picture but it was the first production of a Kona Kilauea - all I remember was that them Project Two (?) forks were damn good .........
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In 2 months though I was riding one of these - still the most expensive F&F I've ever bought at £600 - discounted trade price!
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A dodgy welsh man called jeff and the even dodgier raleigh montrey 'mountain bike' that he bought me as he didnt like me having a baby seat on a road bike
He is long gone and now I only have bikes ive picked 🙂
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Never had my own bike 20 years ago. But my dad had a Townsend Rambler that I was allowed to ride when he wasn't riding it. Which was pretty much all the time.
Used it for the odd commute to uni and did a tour of youth hostels around Dublin and Wicklow on it on my first ever cycling holiday.
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Some Magna BSO, but hey, I was only 8 then...