Recent content by KyleCassara

those are definately pre-production ones. I remember rock shox debuted these on a few factory downhill bikes at the specialized cactus cup in 1997.

I had one of these bikes. I got it direct from intense in 1996. It was called the 'Prototype' the one from the 1st post on top is a Prototype with the 4" travel vertical dropout rear end. I got mine with the rear entry horizontal drop out rear end. Jeff told me that it got 5" of travel with...

93 was right when i got into mtb and downhilling. Another option for brakes would be these critical racing canti's. I had a front and rear pair come stock on my 1994 parkpre pro 825. paired with a "servowave" shimano brake lever (pretty much anything before the v-brake specific levers came...

Ritchey Reds. Before V-brakes came out and everyone was on canti's upgrading from the stock pad to a ritchey red pad was a huge improvement. I had purple ano Critical Racing Cantilevers, they had a nice snappy return spring and good power. The red ritchey pads compound provided a lot more...

My 1996 Intense Prototype (the model was the 'prototype' it wasn't actually a proto) came with an Ultimate Machine Co. CNC seatpost collar. It was pretty trick.

I remember having a set of the ceramic pads on my downhill bike in 1996. I had xtr v-brakes and a mavic 121 cermaic rim in the rear. Those ceramic pads feel like hard almost brittle plastic, they're a little noisy too.