deeeight

They've lasted this long, they're not going away just because close minded people hope they will.

Meanwhile over on bikerumour, there is news about the 2014 trek fuel ex 120mm and remedy 140mm 29er models including thanks to comments, links to dealers which have the prices/descriptions. The bikes are already in stock at trek and ready to ship to dealers.

I would say... why do clothing companies insist on dressing women in ugly guys clothes

I was there on the Saturday watching the XC World race, and when I arrived the women's race was about to end and the men's about to begin so me and a buddy decided to bike up the fire road to find a better spot on the course to watch the start and just as we passed the bridge, down comes this guy with purple forks and swingarm who's doing DH course practice, and he tabletops the bridge. I snapped a photo with a little camera but the film got ruined so half my photos from the day were over exposed, including that particular one. My friend Sebastien (who I mentioned elsewhere in the comments) was there racing the elite-DH event on a green Grove Innovations X-Frame hardtail with a white Scott Unishocks fork. I ran into him in the pits area hours later with bloody arm and leg complaining about some useless british national team rider who was going so slow and then forced a pass situation in a bad section of the course. I had only driven up to bromont to watch the XC race (the DH was on sunday) and on the way back to Ottawa, the exhaust pipe of my car snapped midspan just ahead of the resonator can (and well before the muffler) and it was BRAP BRAP BRAP exhaust sound for 250 kms.

@joelrider.... yes, those.

I posted this like second comment but it appears (on my feed anyway) to have vanished... so to repeat... Got the history screwed up RIGHT from the beginning... way to go Matt. Yes the first fork was the STAR, and it sucked.... terrible reviews by every magazine that got to test one. That effort was followed by the XC-100, XC-200 and XC-300 models for the 1992 model year. The "XC-51" was a discount model that didn't appear until the 1994 model year having replaced the XC-50 which came in 1993 which itself replaced the XC-100. The XC-200 was followed by the XC-150 in 1993 and the XC-300 by the XC-400 in 1993. In 1994 came the XC-51 and the XC-500 and a version in between them made for Giant bicycles was called the EGS. In 1995 we got the XC-600, the XCR and the 3" travel DH3 model as well as the EGS and a new elastomer-only model called the Zokes. 1996 brought us the XC-700, the DH3 again, the Zokes 2, and IF you were a lucky racer to be sponsored at the time by Marzocchi, the summer 1996 debut of the Bomber Z1. The first one in Canada went to quebec DH racer Sebastien Guite, who still owns it. Among other things it introduced was dual-disc mounts on the lower legs, for the rare Formula hydraulic double-disc front brake.

Ummmm, Dave Cullinan table-top jumped the bridge under the chair lift and over the concrete sledding tracks at Bromont Quebec at the 1992 Worlds on spindly legged early production Marzocchi XC-400 forks on a Verlicchi made / Iron Horse labeled full suspension frame with 2" front travel and 3" rear travel. It was one of the first table-top jumps done in a major competition by any downhiller and he even WON the world championships some say because of it (because he didn't slow to ride the bridge section like every other rider did).

Not to mention there was a company called auriga that made CF lowers kits for Manitou forks, Scott USA had two carbon fiber lowers version of the Unishocks called the LF and the LFR around 1995, and Girvin/Noleen had CF legged versions of the Vector/Crosslink models from 1996 onwards.

Got the history screwed up RIGHT from the beginning... way to go Matt. Yes the first fork was the STAR, and it sucked.... terrible reviews by every magazine that got to test one. That effort was followed by the XC-100, XC-200 and XC-300 models for the 1992 model year. The "XC-51" was a discount model that didn't appear until the 1994 model year having replaced the XC-50 which came in 1993 which itself replaced the XC-100. The XC-200 was followed by the XC-150 in 1993 and the XC-300 by the XC-400 in 1993. In 1994 came the XC-51 and the XC-500 and a version in between them made for Giant bicycles was called the EGS. In 1995 we got the XC-600, the XCR and the 3" travel DH3 model as well as the EGS and a new elastomer-only model called the Zokes. 1996 brought us the XC-700, the DH3 again, the Zokes 2, and IF you were a lucky racer to be sponsored at the time by Marzocchi, the summer 1996 debut of the Bomber Z1. The first one in Canada went to quebec DH racer Sebastien Guite, who still owns it. Among other things it introduced was dual-disc mounts on the lower legs, for the rare Formula hydraulic double-disc front brake.

I've got more clues, about the bike world, and how the manufacturers operate, than you'll ever have. But you keep on spewing about how great YT is...it just keeps proving you're a total troll.