Mike D.
Well-known member
What a long way we've come.
Buying my new Vitus VSR got me thinking about my first ever mountain bike that I bought way back in 1991 - a Marin Pine Mountain.
My first upgrade was a pair of those new-fangled fancy suspension fork thingies.
At the time, Rockshox Judys seemed to be the in-thing but, never one to follow the herd, I bought a pair of forks made by Pace Cycles.
Easy to dissassemble with an allen key, all they had inside was a couple of rubber bungs in each leg. Hardly "suspension" at all really, but they did give a whole 25 millimetres of bouncy bouncy travel! Wowee.
Now I've got a pair of "Fox Float 36" 170 millimetre forks that might kill me if I try to open them for a service unless I give them to a modern bike professional with a specific tool kit and a Phd in Advanced Engineering and Quantum Mechanics.
Those were the days, eh?
That's me on the right...
Buying my new Vitus VSR got me thinking about my first ever mountain bike that I bought way back in 1991 - a Marin Pine Mountain.
My first upgrade was a pair of those new-fangled fancy suspension fork thingies.
At the time, Rockshox Judys seemed to be the in-thing but, never one to follow the herd, I bought a pair of forks made by Pace Cycles.
Easy to dissassemble with an allen key, all they had inside was a couple of rubber bungs in each leg. Hardly "suspension" at all really, but they did give a whole 25 millimetres of bouncy bouncy travel! Wowee.
Now I've got a pair of "Fox Float 36" 170 millimetre forks that might kill me if I try to open them for a service unless I give them to a modern bike professional with a specific tool kit and a Phd in Advanced Engineering and Quantum Mechanics.
Those were the days, eh?
That's me on the right...
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