Originally Posted by
RobertHurst
I remember watching Henrik Djernis (not French) win the world championship race at Vail on a rigid fork, when the entire rest of the field was using shocks. But the rest of the field didn't care, because they were having so much fun with their high-tech devices.
It may be noted that there really was not much difference between a rigid and a 2"-travel hardtail in those days.
I got a kick out of all the riders walking their bikes down the steep section. Would be so unnecessary today; and speeds carried through a lot of the other descending sections would be quite different: