About 2004, I think my wife pointed me to the site after finding it whilst researching a new bike or a holiday, or something.
The first thread I remember was a PSA about Halfords selling off Kona Explosifs for £400, the frames online were £450 I think and Halfords were selling a handful with the build kit from the Kona Blast (randomly…I think the frames were seconds as the rear V brake always sat off centre).
I rang my local store and he wanted to know what the heck was going on as he had multiple calls from across the country to ship the one he had in stock to another store via their distribution centre. Thankfully I was the only one that was able to turn up 30 minutes later to snatch it up!
Great bike, still got it, got me into singlespeed 🙂