I lived with every one of those bikes being the latest and greatest new technology, and I'm still riding. I started on a full rigid steel MTB and now I ride a $10k EMTB. I love every bit about biking.
I have a small fleet of these bikes, including a 1997 TREK Y-11 and a 2002 Norco Launch. Even have (and occasionally wear) the Team GT jersey seen at 2:05. Back then, the focus was on the bikes and components because product development was happening so fast, with all kinds of directions most of which came to a dead end. Now bikes are so good that it's all about the riding, as it should be.
that Kirk Revolution frame is prolly the rarest frame there, if not one of the rarest, full magnesium poured frame, very bad for the way it was poured very often air bubbles in and around the BB, the Pace RC200 near the end in Satin Red, with the panaracer tyres is nice, but the rarer one to have would be a 1998 Pace RC500 with monstor T forks. didnt see a Raleigh M-Trax there either. loads of them old Super V's and such, liked the old Kona hei hei with project two's on.
I was a MTBer back in those days. They were absolutely awful and dangerous compared to bikes today. We didn't know any better, lol. I had a first gen Raven with Avid Arch Supreme rim brakes and a San Andreas with discs that didn't work, had to revert to rim brakes.
