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Poppies are still blooming in the AV. Watching to see if this will last until spring. Never seen this before.

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Sasquatch9billion said:
Saw this bad boy on our group ride Saturday morning in Long Beach with @Fueledbyex8 & @slooowsef ,thought of you, @Mikie !
It was in pristine restored condition. The guy said he took a couple of years to get it right.

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Cool bike - but wrong fork, right @Mikie? I believe they all came with a Girvin parallelogram type of fork. Maybe I'm wrong.

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And is that a dog's shadow on the right side of your photo? Some kind of Doodle?
 
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herzalot said:
Cool bike - but wrong fork, right @Mikie? I believe they all came with a Girvin parallelogram type of fork. Maybe I'm wrong.

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And is that a dog's shadow on the right side of your photo? Some kind of Doodle?
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I’ve got to imagine that’d be a hard fork to find these days.

that’s the bike’s owner on my left. I think the shadow on the right is the back of another rider wearing a helmet.
 
Sasquatch9billion said:
Saw this bad boy on our group ride Saturday morning in Long Beach with @Fueledbyex8 & @slooowsef ,thought of you, @Mikie !
It was in pristine restored condition. The guy said he took a couple of years to get it right.

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Nice! Not to dissimilar to mine, although he's got the upragded Risse rear shock.

@herzalot is right, wrong fork. Should be a Girvin Vector, they still come up for sale from time to time. Theres a guy local to me selling a frame, fork and wheels that I keep looking at thinking I should grab. Its got the Risse rear shock upgrade on it but the frames a different year and I don't know if they all ran the same shock configuration. Early forks had a urethane damping system, any of those would have disintegrated by now but later forks came with a coil and oil damper setup, Risse also did an upgrade shock for the front. After Proflex turned into K2 the top version even came with Noleen coil shocks with some electronic wizardry attached to it (in carbon)
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Lost Kiwi said:
Nice! Not to dissimilar to mine, although he's got the upragded Risse rear shock.

@herzalot is right, wrong fork. Should be a Girvin Vector, they still come up for sale from time to time. Theres a guy local to me selling a frame, fork and wheels that I keep looking at thinking I should grab. Its got the Risse rear shock upgrade on it but the frames a different year and I don't know if they all ran the same shock configuration. Early forks had a urethane damping system, any of those would have disintegrated by now but later forks came with a coil and oil damper setup, Risse also did an upgrade shock for the front. After Proflex turned into K2 the top version even came with Noleen coil shocks with some electronic wizardry attached to it (in carbon)
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That’s right, I knew we had a member here who still had a Proflex!

good intel @Lost Kiwi!
I might go ahead and scoop it up. A lot of my gravel friends have started collecting 90’s mtn bikes now. At this ride we were talking and people were saying the prices of old Stumpy’s and GT triple triangle bikes have shot up.
 
Sasquatch9billion said:
Saw this bad boy on our group ride Saturday morning in Long Beach with @Fueledbyex8 & @slooowsef ,thought of you, @Mikie !
It was in pristine restored condition. The guy said he took a couple of years to get it right.

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Those hydraulic Magura rim brakes are sweet.
Sasquatch9billion said:
That’s right, I knew we had a member here who still had a Proflex!

good intel @Lost Kiwi!
I might go ahead and scoop it up. A lot of my gravel friends have started collecting 90’s mtn bikes now. At this ride we were talking and people were saying the prices of old Stumpy’s and GT triple triangle bikes have shot up.
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May I tag along on one of your vintage gravel grinds?
 
Sasquatch9billion said:
Saw this bad boy on our group ride Saturday morning in Long Beach with @Fueledbyex8 & @slooowsef ,thought of you, @Mikie !
It was in pristine restored condition. The guy said he took a couple of years to get it right.

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herzalot said:
Cool bike - but wrong fork, right @Mikie? I believe they all came with a Girvin parallelogram type of fork. Maybe I'm wrong.

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And is that a dog's shadow on the right side of your photo? Some kind of Doodle?
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That is correct-o mundo! A Girvin fork is a must for original. But sweet none the less!

I had both of those bike. I never saw an 856 in Silver like that before… hmmmm….
 
Lost Kiwi said:
Nice! Not to dissimilar to mine, although he's got the upragded Risse rear shock.

@herzalot is right, wrong fork. Should be a Girvin Vector, they still come up for sale from time to time. Theres a guy local to me selling a frame, fork and wheels that I keep looking at thinking I should grab. Its got the Risse rear shock upgrade on it but the frames a different year and I don't know if they all ran the same shock configuration. Early forks had a urethane damping system, any of those would have disintegrated by now but later forks came with a coil and oil damper setup, Risse also did an upgrade shock for the front. After Proflex turned into K2 the top version even came with Noleen coil shocks with some electronic wizardry attached to it (in carbon)
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That’s a badazz bike. That’s a Proflex after K2 purchased Proflex. Sweet!
 
I received this Thank You card over 20 years ago, and it's been on my refrigerator ever since. Still makes me smile when I look at it, Why?

This is how I feel every time I get on the bike and go for a ride! A kid at heart with a big smile ready to explore the world!

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Obsidian said:
Same with the 80's and early 90's. Glad there is no actual record. :cautious::laugh:
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I love it when someone in a position of authority or running for office is held to 2024 standards for Sh!t they said or did in the 80s. And by love it, I mean, despise it! I'm not talking unethical or illegal Sh!t, I'm just talking stuff that would be considered sexist, racist or otherwise offensive or inappropriate by today's standards.

I told some pretty awful jokes as a 13 year old that I would never say today, and if I did, I could expect to lose my position!
 
herzalot said:
I love it when someone in a position of authority or running for office is held to 2024 standards for Sh!t they said or did in the 80s. And by love it, I mean, despise it! I'm not talking unethical or illegal Sh!t, I'm just talking stuff that would be considered sexist, racist or otherwise offensive or inappropriate by today's standards.

I told some pretty awful jokes as a 13 year old that I would never say today, and if I did, I could expect to lose my position!
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Dude! Exactly.

I feel bad for the kids these days.

I still tell awful jokes though. :laugh: Just carefully.

And your next President that you are not voting for is us.
 
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