Originally Posted by
Ballenxj
This appears to be a very nice bike. I have to wonder why it was abandoned? Did somebody sell the house, leaving it behind?
Who knows!? I think this might have been when they started giving you a rear derailleur that was a step up from the rest of the group. This had an XT rear der, LX everything else, Avid V brakes, and Specialized crank. That stuff was so good, I guess there was no real need for all XT unless you had extra money to spend. The only thing that wasn’t worth riding on that bike was the fork. It just had a stack of elastomer bumpers in it, and rode like a pogo stick. Mine was quickly replaced with a coil/oil Marzocchi Bomber.