Thank you. Some are still around some are gone. But all the balfas I have ever had,built, or sold were just great riding and rugged machines, not like many of the current diposable frames where if you take a hard getoff and smash a rock the frame is over with.

 Exactly what i think about so many dh or freestyle bike today....it`s like...stat of the art but.....for me?..show-off only.Sorry but..it`s what i feel when i check some new stuff today...for sure it`s so nice to see but...it`s just nice...nothing more....nothing to compare whit the archaic style of the end of 90`s....my own opinionfor sure.

 Modern bikes are art for sure, at least most of them, but when people start ripping headtubes off on landings and snapping 5 lb "DH" forks..things will go back to this. A little heavier and totally reliable. When I hurl myself down a mountian at foolish speeds or over a cliff or jump, I don't want to think about my machine failing. I have had and broke so many frames/shocks/forks over the years since the times of the girvin flex-stem being the only bike suspension on my bridgestone MB-0 and when the Balfas came to us from Canada...I was hooked ! As a matter of fact, IMHO I would prefer Canadian bikes over most all, other than a few USA builds such as Brooklyn machine works and Cannondales.(These 2 are NOT the same in durability or weight, but great in their own respective rights)

 i ride whit the first generation of BB7....1999...oldschool but.....bombproof!!!!!!!!!.you have a nice collection.