HHSMTB's

Straight to porn I'd say. Not HHSMTB :)

Needs a Dart front tyre.

Great build, Chris King designed those hubs for radial lacing I think in the early '00s

Really admired this gearbox DH when it came out:

This is just porn:

More porn - so much fun to ride:

Needs a Dart front tyre.

knowledgeable post.

knowledgeable post.

Merci,

Misspent youth.

Really admired this gearbox DH when it came out:

That only had 120mm of rear travel. Nitrogen charged rear shock based on tank suspension, was meant to ride amazingly.

http://southernfreerider.myfastforum.org/archive/millyard-bike-the-bike-that-companies-dont-want-to-exist..o_tt_3650.html

MKii Monostay was pretty rad

i have a fence jammed up my ass

paging saarf

Oh Whats going on here then? Pneumatic gears?

Yep 15 yrs or so ago,really expensive, DH setup, worked amazingly well

Looks cool, but what's the advantage of having air lines instead of cables?

Looks cool

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its cool

Looks cool, but what's the advantage of having air lines instead of cables?

It shifted perfectly once setup, no cable stretch, really quick push button effortless shifts, but there were to many downsides (cold, altitude, 500 shifts, cost etc). I think the main advantage was with the big dh rigs back then like Karpiels, the rd wire cable route was just crazy and always ended up with a sluggish shifter feel, so the airlines solved that

what's the advantage of having air lines instead of cables?

*Pssssst*–clunk

More: http://www.disraeligears.co.uk/Site/Shimano_Airlines_derailleur_%28AR01%29.html

http://www.retrobike.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=13951&start=210