Rigid Lefty Fork??

[DieselnDust]

Seeing that Hooligan reminded me of this photo way back in MBA and obviously had me looking for it for the last few hours... Interesting that plus tires (19"x3") and 29'ers both appeared around the same time.

 

 

Yebo, 29ers 650b, 19 inch 24inch , 26 inch all kinds lived happily together. DH bikes even used 24" rear wheels and 26er fronts or in France 650B. But in those days the okes used to be engineers who could do 2ndmoment of area calc or moment of inertia calcs and figured mathematically and through experiments that smaller wheels  worked very very well.

Then along came the marketers....now they selling us the 90's all over again. hang onto those 24" and 26" wheels guys