Gee, and there I was thinking I'd live the rest of my life in a happy place, without ever seeing another one of these again.

The amount of money and engineering-/production-hours thrown at the BEAST was incredible. The degree of precision necessary to get those shift gates to work properly, especially in an off-road environment, went way beyond expectations, and beyond Suntour's/Browning's ability to deliver product. Lots of angry customers, lots of cancelled orders with angry customers scrambling to find replacement cranks so production schedules wouldn't fall farther behind.

There was talk back then of being able to potentially harness all the hot new computer/electronic technology to make it an autoshifting system.