i had a first year monster (1999). at the time it was pretty cool; certainly a stout chassis, and plush. though the damper was decidedly primitive, but that was a given back then. and was 10lbs. which was about 4lbs heavier than my next fork, a manitou x-vert carbon (which had a decent damper...
i dunno man, looks like he's been brainwashed into mindless submission by the nefarious forces of organized religion.
perhaps a rescue extraction / deprogramming is in order?
looooove this bike. actually got to take it for a whistler lap; very rad.
there's actually a guy building a modern geo racelink-esque bike (that looks competently built) currently. will have to dig to find it...
looks like standard pinion twisters on there, no?
having spent some time on a pinion, i'm kinda meh about these things. twister / doesn't shifter under load / shitty POE / expensive / heavy(er) / not customer serviceable... conventional drivetrains are just so refined right now, gearboxes are a...
random: guy i know used to know the OG VPP designer (james klassen) back when they were building the original protos just over the border in sumas, wa. apparently they had first approached rocky with the rights to the design, who passed on it because they thought it was too expensive (instead...
no doubt. the trails here are already swarming - with people on 5-10k bikes. i'm kinda ok with the sport not being made any more accessible at this point. (privileged elitism acknowledged).
noel seems like a good guy, but i cannot for the life of me grasp the appeal of the bikes. the designs are ugly AF; adding extra linkage & a funky seat tube angle for no tangible benefit (apart from originally skirting the horst patent, which is now moot). i just can't comprehend the fanboism...
now that's an novel location. curious what the impact failure mode is; tool gets broken off, or gets punched through the downtube? not a bad looking bike, otherwise (apart from teh small wheels). i'd *totally* go for the $12kUSD livevalve option.
*edit* damn, you can bolt shit all over the DT:
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