One autumnal evening, Sally gets lost and tries to take the old mining cable car back home - only to discover herself in a weird mirror version of her home town, derelict and abandoned save for shadowy monsters, the likes of which you'd find as models in Forbidden Planet in a cabinet labelled "From The Mind Of Tim Burton". You play as Sally, a young girl whose even younger cousin Emily has gone missing. Every time I see one on the trail today though, I get butterflies in my chest and just think back to that amazing thing.Until recently, Gylt (look, stay with it) was confined to Google's cloud gaming platform Stadia, but Stadia doesn't exist any more, so this third-person stealth adventure is being unleashed on Steam. I was so disappointed, I should have known that it really wasn't a high end bike in the first place but I was really just hoping it would ride similar to the Zaskar my buddy had. I soon found myself on the GT bandwagon and got a new GT Avalanche after I cracked my Rockhopper. Every weld had a perfect hand made bead and the raw tubing looked second to none. And the craftsmanship that was put into the frame was great. It really was the ultimate bike and all of us wanted it. It rolled fast and left the rest of us stranded in its dust. That bike was amazing and the way it rode and felt was so ahead of its time. I was given a specialized Rockhopper for my birthday and my other friend was given his fathers old GT Zaskars LE from the early-mid 90s. When I first got into mountain biking I was in 2006 and I was 13. It was truely one of those dream bicycles. Most of you guys don't have a respect for what this bike was. I just wished they had experimented with detatching the seatstays from the seat tube and created a more shock absorbing ride the way Volagi did with road bikes, that would work for the dirt too. I always liked the way the seatstays parallell each other. It's a nice blend of function and aesthetics, and sets the brand apart. The design makes sense, the way in which everything in the rear of the bike is reinforced, and it helps minimize side to side flex. The Triple Triangle is what makes the GT hardtail such a unique bike, and the Zaskar has always been one of the best looking hardtails out there. By the time the Mag 21 came around attention was turning towards full suspension and that's when I wanted a GT RTS, a cool looking but marginal suspension design. A Zaskar with a Mag 20 (92-93?)represents the high point of this iconic models existence that was such a lusted after bike. It was a cool rigid bike at first but the Zaskar really emerged around the same time as front suspension did, and faded a little when full suspension emerged. Hans Rey, Furtado, Grewal, Mike King, and even Voulliouz raced them. kmr/bikes/strat1.jpgġ997 Amp Research B-3 (also to be sold, lack of use in 26ers happening now with me). kmr/bikes/thunderbolt1.jpgġ991 Rocky Mountain Stratos (my first "good" mtb, what got me started on doing custom builds and wrenching for a profit). kmr/bikes/fcf1.jpgġ988 Rocky Mountain Thunderbolt (selling it, too small and I haven't ridden it myself in 5 years). when we ride something to the point of failure, it becomes art, not something that goes into a trash bin.ġ984 Rocky Mountain Fat City Flyer (selling it, too small, never ridden it off-road once since I bought it). That's probably something done more by people who got into riding in the 80s and 90s than say the 2000s. I've got several broken frames that were high demand at the time, hanging as art work about my house also. While I'm now selling off most of my older bikes (there's a good demand for 1997 and older bikes and components), I do have a fair bit of old schoolness still.
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