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90s really, i guess its hard to check with eBay and the like, but quite a few mtbs with threaded headsets and quill stems are sometimes 1 1/8 too, so you can just put a new aheadset in there and your gtg.
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my 97 gt is all of the above, but my brother's (who got a new bike the same time as me in 1997) Raleigh was a quill stem... we didn't know (or care) about the difference then.
both our bikes cost the same, and had similar componentry, but the GT was available with a 60mm rockshox indy c as well, maybe that was the difference?
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Sure, that era was the first half of the nineties. I bought my first mtb in 1991 and back than 1 1/8 with rigid forks and canti's was the standard (allthough some builders as Ritchey, Breezer, Serotta,... went on building bikes with 1" headtubes untill late nineties). Suspension forks were aftermarket and only available through LBS. I believe it was from 1994-1995 on that bikes with suspension forks appeared in the catalogs.
edit: ahead stems were from 1993 on but quill didn't disappear immediately.
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Figure this is the best place to ask. Was there an era when mountain bikes had 1 1/8 inch headtubes but still used rim brakes? And rigid forks. I think there is but not sure what the era it was?