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project AMYGDALA // BRANDON SEMENUK x Etnies
Brandon Semenuk’s first etnies pro shoe, the Semenuk Pro, launches globally today with his latest video projectAMYGDALA. Brandon worked closely...
Peeking inside the treasure chest // A journey through one mans collection of DH rigs!
The late 90’s through to the early 00’s was a period in downhill racing known as the ‘Golden Era’. At...
Peeking inside the treasure chest // GT ‘STS Lobo 1000 DH’ 1999
[R]: Ah yes, when GT went through that phase of experimenting with ‘thermoplastic’ frame tubes! Was it meant to be stronger than carbon or something like that? I don’t think anyone really knew at the time. Harder yes, stronger maybe...
Peeking inside the treasure chest // Intense ‘M1’ 2000
[R]: The undisrupted king of DH from that era was of course this big bad boy, the M1! You couldn’t...
Peaking inside the treasure chest // Schwinn ‘Straight 8’ (first generation 1998/99
[R]: Those ‘pull shocks’ sure were a thing of beauty! For people that might not have seen one in the...
Peeking inside the treasure chest // Specialized ‘S-Works FSR DH’ 1998
[R]: Might be going out on a limb here, but, the iconic graphic scheme on this bike would have to be the most striking of any factory race bike to date, would you agree? Totally, it was ‘factory AF’ as...
Peeking inside the treasure chest // Scott ‘Octane DH’ (the one with two shocks) 1998
Tell us about the concept that Scott were running here with the 2 rear shocks? The idea is that one...
Peeking inside the treasure chest // Giant ‘ATX 1 DH’ 1998
[R]: Giant had such a cool roster of riders when this bike was out; Rockwell, Warner, and of course a...
Peeking inside the treasure chest // Tomac ‘204 Magnum’ 1998
When the legendary John Tomac began making bikes their designs were always something super special. Surely this bike featured the chunkiest tubeset of its generation, eh? Definitely, the Headtube is super chunky but also fairly slim. A bit like a...
