Had to chime in about this. As much as everybody ragged on this bike, its 2016 and i still got this bike.

I used this bike for about 10 years before i had enough money to buy myself a beautiful Fuel.

I was looking at it the orher day and really want to refurbish it. My first real bike that everybody hated. Its still alive though. Has original drive train(it skips) but original and i replaced brake levers. And upgraded the rear shock way back when. This bike has gone through hell and back.

Probably was a bad design or bad whatever. but i loved it, got me in shape, and got me into mountain biking. Its now going to be fixed up and mounted on my wall as Vintage Art lol