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@bunjiman82: It's like in the old days on David Letterman, all of a sudden, there would be text running a cross the screen: "Writer's embellishment"........apparently they forgot the warning ?

@twozerosix: Another short lived trend (~mid nineties?) was Bike manufacturers using alloys that had been "declassified" by the Military. These alloys were originally only available to the government, and some had amazing properties. IIRC, the majority of them came from CARPENTER. One alloy that at least a couple manufacturers played with briefly was AERMET. Supposedly a 30 thou thick sheet of it would stop a bullet? Anyways, both Profile and Dean built a few bikes, but I don't believe they made any $$ on them, as the alloy was very hard to work with, and killed their tooling/cutting tools, etc in short order. SO, that didn't last for long. Their were other alloys as well, and somewhere in a box I still have the magazine article, but presently, not the will to go look for it:)

There were a lot of bikes that I LUSTED when seen in magazines (cuzz this was before, or in the EARLY days of the internet:) In no particular order Examples: - Mountain Cycle San Andreas, and later, Mtn Cycle CXS (Have still, to this day, never seen stood in front of either one) - Any Klein with the multi colour fade paint job (had a LBS that had one in the front window, still LOVE that paint all these years later:) -Any Ti framed bike, GT Xizang, Kona Hei Hei, Merlin, Seven, etc -Tonight I cannot recall the MFGR, but there was a bike in (IIRC) MBA that had a Berillium frame, was stupid light, and $25K thirty years ago. That's just scratching the surface, so go ahead, mention the ones you wanted bad, but didn't have the $$ to back it up !!

@hllclmbr: They may have got scolded by someone in the gubmint for using coins in such a manner :) Illegal, maybe, but they looked pretty cool with the coins brazed onto the top of the tubes .**Just did a google image search, found an article on another channel , and here's a link to the pic. **Spoiler alert, it doesn't look like a penny!! https://bikerumor.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/NAHBS-2016_SyCip-Designs_Jeremy-SyCip_mountain-rigid-fork_crown-446x600.jpg link to article https://bikerumor.com/road-nahbs-2016-jeremy-sycip-sycip-designs/

@hilclimbr: I had a Sycip Brochure back in the day, do your ridgid forks have the pennies brazed to the top of the tubes?

My oldest is a '94 GT Corrado, added a Rockshox Judy XC fork in '98, rode it a shit ton until 2013. No idea of the exact mileage, but conservatively, if you throw 1000km/year at it, that's at least 18,000km ! Then I bought my younger Bro's 2007 Trek Fuel EX9, still riding it, and being as it had a cycling computer on it when I got it, I started logging my miles and I've put almost 11,000 mile on the Trek. It's time again for new Rings, Rear Cassette and another New Chain, just waiting on my Tax Return:)

@CSharp: He ain't no Cowboy, but he's still aiming for that elusive "Eight Seconds"