To be fair, half his last posts are just "kill list", so just come up with your own catch phrase and give him a run for his money
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. Thank you for keeping rm alive sir. Ok I turned it back to portrait mode now.
I've been a desk jockey for a decade. What do you expect?I turned my phone sideways so the page would display @jonKranked post count.
Ok 11 1/2 years.
doing short edits over at instagram
surfing RM on your phone should be a reason for an instant ban, forums belong on the big screen!I turned my phone sideways so the page would display @jonKranked post count.
Big screen for work!
that's a name i haven't heard in a long time"Son, those are rookie numbers."
- Acadian on JK's post count
Yeah. sadly Muddyfox were bought by the Sports division empire and ruined like so many other half decent brand names.
He's currently working as Editorial Director at
These Bikemag portraits are my favorite ones in the industry. You don't get that quality writing that easily nowadays. It's all "gnar" "shred" "bro", with sentences directed to a six year old. Great piece on a great man.
My first MTB was Ross Mt Washington. Pretty much the cheapest non department store bike I could buy.
Univega is still busy and was part of Derby Cycling Holding, which also held Focus, Cervélo, Raleigh Germany. Derby was bought by Pon Holdings in 2013.
I had a Pace fork in maybe 2004, it is to this day the worst fork I have ever owned. Yup, worse than a 2000 Judy XL, even worse than the Kowa that would keep going straight when you turned the bar and shipped with bushings that were beyond flogged out.
Ross went bankrupt back in the 90's. I think they tried to branch out a bit and had a government contract and it consumed too much time/energy and caused them to file for bankruptcy.
I had one of those bloody Judy XL things on a Mongoose NX9.7 - The damper frequently blew and dumped all the oil into the lowers limiting it to about 25mm of travel. Every bloody race it blew. And then, because I make poor decisions - I initially bought a Stratos MX6 fork to replace it, but it wouldn't work with my wheels so I returned that fork without installing it and replaced it with an RST Alfalfa XL (Gravesy was running one so how bad could it be). Really fucken bad is how - pretty much the worst sealing technology in existence (aside from ZZYZX). You could only run that bike for 2 hours before the fork needed a strip down and re-grease just to keep it moving. Ran that for a year and then got an ex-team Boxxer which was a game-changer for me.
They were probably the most reliable brake ever marketed by RS/Avid/Sram.
I share a bit of your experience. My first triple clamp was a Judy XL as well. Somewhere in here I posted a pic of me riding it in my first ever DH race. But the next one was a '99 Foes F1 Wet One. And god damn, that name said it all! The seals in the uppers had to be installed with silicone and every 5h ride time or so they suddenly blew out, dropping all the splash oil on the lowers and front brake - had a lot of fun moments on that fork.
Had a set on my GT Lobo.Helped to make you more of a passenger than a pilot if I recall...
LOL!
A mate of mine had the Cannondale moto upside down fork. It had the same open bath rotor cooling technology that you speak of.
Man that sucks about the Stratos, I'm not really one for having things that have no purpose but I would like to own a Stratos fork just to have something old and cool. I was looking at buying one but they they had closed up shop, everyone seemed to have a pretty fond memory of the Stratos gear.
WhiteBrothers were also pioneers of that technology
the constant whistling as it compressed and extended used to drive me crazy...
Everyone was not "fond" of the Stratos gear is the point. Some of their stuff worked, they came up with the inertia valve (but failed to effectively protect the intellectual property). Other stuff was a massive failure, like the seals on the S7s. The crowns were "clamped on" the forks and were not condusive to lateral rigidity, despite the massive-sized structures. I had the damping glide ring break in the S8, although up to that it was decent, the glide-ring failure ruined the action though. The Expert shock was intriguing, but would only work on a few frames IME, the progressive nature of the air spring, coupled with the progressive coil shock, introduced way too much progression if attached to a bike that already had some. They ended up cloning avalanche shocks (DHS) in a last-ditch attempt at the end. Despite these gear issues, there was some good stuff, the company was mismanaged on an epic scale and ran into the ground by the owner. There's a huge thread on it in the archives. The memories of running the stratos gear are not all "fond".
