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what Really Shit Twangers, allright back in the 1990's from memory i think Shaun Palmer was sponsered by them for a bit, but so long ago, i wanted some Mozo Pros because they had coil springs inside, an age when most had a foam rubber stick inside that would go hard when it was cold and not really do much :)
We had some crap gear back then, but it was also cutting edge back then, Girvins, and AMPs, RST and Zocchi Bombers could be easily stripped and rebuilt but the Bombers with open bath MX type dampers, against the Rock Shox Judys with plastic cartridges........ goes all misty eyed and looks for rose tinted specs :)
The old Rockshox boxxer DHO Tim Flooks had to rebuild them after each downhill race run as the cartridges would not hold together for a full race run, imagine that, you have the cutting edge fork on your bike and you know the internals are going to let go in the final half of your race run, exciting or what.