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My first ATB was a 1986 Diamond Back Topanga. I put slicks on it to commute with. Did some trail riding and then bought a cheap pink Reflex (bonded aluminum tubes to lugs) from a mail order place which got me into real riding. Did stuff in the Canyon Lands National Park and the Wasatch on it etc. Then I realized it was too big, and I got a Lotus mail-order bike with Sun Tour Express push-push shifters.
Kept selling the old ones on consignment at a local shop.
The shifters died, and then I got a steel Ross drop bar, dare I say gravely bike 700c bike which I rode for years until the fork broke off under me.
Then I got a yellow Giant Cadex with Suntour XC pro micro drive and I was hitting the big time single tracks on it. Put a 110 travel Manitou on it eventually and raced a bit. Then it got stolen.
Then I got an early carbon frame and the brake posts broke off in the rear, and that was warranted a funded a titanium hardtail in 1996 which I still ride a lot.
These were my first mountain bikes.