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Finally a thread I can somewhat contribute to! Although this Cannondale is long sold, but hey, I used to own it for a while!
It was 1992 Cannondale M2000, close to the top of the line at the time. Was almost stock, aside from fork and saddle. XT all around, including pedals, but with Ritchey cranks.
This is the bike that probably turned me off of old MTBs for a good while, if not forever. This is a best one could reasonably get around here without spending absurd amounts of money and it just wasn't that great. It does not roll that great (that's mostly tires, but eh), it's not that great on trails (narrow smaller tires), it does not brake well or at all in the rain no matter the adjustments. All the weird standards, parts getting more and more scarce – I guess I'm getting too old for old bikes, ironically. Give me Transition Rapture with 35c vittorias and I'll be happier than with any state-of-the-art-back-in-the-days bike.
Few more notes on this bike:

• The saddle I bought it with was easily the worst I've ever ridden. It's some cheap Selle Italia with a hump where other saddles usually have a cutout. You can imagine an effect of that
  
• Chain (original or at least period correct) snapped on the first uphill
  
• It's very light for the age, slightly below 10.5 kg ready to ride
  
• I kept shifters in friction mode 99% of the time, it's surprisingly easy to use even after proper modern shifters
  
• If you ever searched for any info on old forks you most likely to stumble upon retroforksbike.pl – and turns out I bought this M2000 from the guy running it, which also explains the fork.
  

Does anyone know for how long it's been down this time and is there any chance of it getting back up? I think I used it not so long ago, few weeks back?

Holy shit, that sounds rough! Great to hear that you're mostly ok and mostly without broken bones or head injuries.
Would be also a great reminder for us all to check front ends from time to time, don't skimp on them and keep torque specs in mind.
Get well soon and hope it wouldn't put you off cycling for life!

Well, that's a bummer. How did it happened? Were you just riding along and it just did that?

Thanks! I assumed it might have been Spinergy but didn't find anything that looked like it. Founds some very similar motocross hubs — google search gone really bad in last few years.

Oh, come on now, what is that webp nonsense about? Proper pics of aforementioned hubs:

Does anyone knows what kind of hubs these are? They seem rather cool. Came up for sale with some pretty beat up Bianchi road bike somewhat locally.

You would not be disappointed with old steel MTB as your only bike, especially if you don't do tarmac-only centuries, but prefer a bit of shoddier terrain.
I built one a few years ago, inspired by xbiking movement — GT Tequesta. Rolled like a dream, was pretty comfortable (although I went with flatbar, those old MTBs are awfully long) and stopped on a dime — DBAD crowd, please stop reading here: got some PM bosses welded on and put downhill brakes. Couldn't find anything good to mount as a rear brake — u-brake standard. Who knew that Maguras fit there?
Ok, DBAD people, you can come back, too bad that the post is over.