Originally Posted by
kap 7
Holy cow I don't know the history of hard rocks but I have a 2007 it's wildly different than that one! The older ones were steel?
Yes young man, Hardrocks, Rockhoppers, and Stumpjumpers pre date aluminum as a popular frame material, and started as steel bikes. Spez came out with their M2 bikes in the early 90s if I remeber corrrectly.