It's very rare that I go into the 97 section. So didn't know that, sounds like the old school bmx forums I'm on! All 40 plus and bitch on at each other all the time, it kinda spoils it.
Just as well then. Youd get criticised if your bike doesnt have catalogue spec from when it was new, as if it really matters. The bottom line is that mtb's from that era were mostly crap anyway, as mountainbiking as we know it was still fairly new and it was an experimental stage for bikes. So these guys all get a hard dick over a load of old rubbish and then argue amongst themselves
That is an interested post Sean, Especially considering how much you completely insulted me on my GT Zaskar LE restomod build. In case you don't remember, among other things you said that "...if employees of GT would see my bike, they would cry."