I’ve been wondering when we’ll start discussing what to do with these old suspension bikes. They aren’t that old yet, but they certainly are obsolete in most cases. Some of them were beautifully engineered and fabricated, but you can’t find rebuild parts for the shocks, or forks with a specific offset, etc, etc, and why bother when the new stuff is so good. Once you’ve ridden 29” or 27.5“ wheels off road, 26” make you feel like you’re riding a bmx bike.
I’d love to see more creative re-purposing and conversions of these bikes. I’d never think to put a carbon cross fork on a Heckler, but there you go, and it sounds like it works!