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From the Marin museum of bicycling:

The one-off 1992 Foes Racing LTS18, captured under the Marin golden hour glow by the amazing @reel23films.
The aluminum monocoque frame was handbuilt by automotive and suspension engineer Brent Foes in Pasadena, California. He molded the body over custom-made wooden forms and stamped out features like the central hole with metal blocks --- techniques also used for building handmade sports cars.

The final result was the first complete Foes bike, and a game-changer for downhill racing in the early 1990s. The LTS18 boasted an amazing 6 inches of rear travel, 3 times more than some of its competition on the pro circuit, while remaining nimble and, relatively, very light.

The Rock Shox Mag21 fork offered some of the most front travel available at the time -- around 2 inches -- but was still massively outgunned by the rest of the bike. One of Brent Foes' next projects was a long-travel fork to match the LTS frame!

Other components seen here include HED downhill wheels, a Swiss handmade early V-brake, Syncros stem, Shimano XTR levers and drivetrain, and a carbon-fiber body titanium-rail Selle Italia Flite saddle.
This legendary downhill machine was restored and built up in Switzerland and brought to the museum by Stefan of @cycleworks.ch. It will be joining more than a dozen other vintage downhill bikes for our upcoming "Origins of Gravity" exhibition.