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Howard-
It's amazing they never really caught on, isn't it? Flexible as hell, a bugger to work on, and not that light. I still think they look pretty cool though, especially from the front.
I replaced them with RockShox Judy XLs - the purple ones with the double crowns but hardly any travel. Their only redeeming feature was that they were cheap. Totally screwed up the handling too.
Brommers
Indeed? I have a Direct Control titanium fork which one of these days I will use to rebuild my old Raleigh Torus XT mountain bike. Here's a picture from the brochure from Ye Olde Days showing the bike with the fork:
Looks beautiful, but utterly terrifying to ride. It's as flexy and twangy as a very flexy and twangy thing, despite the double crowns, and there's only a few occasions when the front wheel is actually pointing in the direction of travel. Looks cool though.