Kapusta

If this is true, then you know what I am saying about how few people owned GDs from 2004-2006 is accurate. Which leaves me at a loss as to why you are insisting otherwise.

You said 2005 was “late to the party”. I chalked up that misconception to you simply not knowing any better. But if what you are saying here is true, apparently you do.... so why say something that you must know is not true?

Also, if the GD was so popular and selling well in 2004, why did it take so long for other companies to get in the game? The next remote dropper (Joplin) did not come out until 2007. Heck , Rock Shox took until around 2010 (6 years later). It just does not add up.

And as far as industry press coverage... sure, go to GD website and you will easily find good press. And in that regards I will concede that I was going off my memory, And I guess I did not read all those publications at the time, so I should not have made a characterization about what they said.

However, I think it is beside the point, because whatever was being written about them in the industry press, consumers and the MTB community at large took a long, long time to adopt droppers. Even Weir getting on board and using a GD in Super D events (or whatever we used to call Enduro races back then) did not seem to make a lot of difference for a long time.

Anyway, I am not going to keep arguing with someone who insists the white wall we were both looking at was black.