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Howard
Was always worried when doing up mine but never had a problem (not an Alien head)
Suspect the bolt swap on Bluds is due to rounding out original bolt head.
Still, nice to see you can buy new heads which have evolved indicating an issue with older ones.
On a random note, checked my stash of mag's. Seems i had a purge years ago and oldest i have is 2003 MBA and Bike and Dirt. Ditched all the older ones.
I remember reading up on the Y-bikes when they first appeared, at the time a totally groundbreaking design in the frame, kinda let down by Unified Rear Triangle suspension.
Must be around the time that specialized aquired the rights/patents to the Horst link from AMP research, renamed it FSR and then we had suspension wars for years to follow as companies went to great lengths to work around the Horst/FSR set up to avoid paying Spesh a licence fee.
Even Turner Bikes had to pay a fee and Dave worked for AMP and was part of the team that created the Horst 4 bar linkage system......... how shit is that, you work on something and then get shafted for years to come by the rival company that bought out the rights/patent.