My neighbor and good friend lives off a trust acct, is over 55, surfs daily, (as he has for the last 45 years) and got the bike for his place in Ixtapa--it sat around here, garaged ( SoCal) in a marine environment since 1999 and never made it to Mexico--He took it to a chain LBS who told him it wasn't worth fixing and promptly sold him a shiny, heavy Ironhorse on sale--all it needs is cleaning, cables, lube job, brake and fork service--all of the XT components are perfect as is the cool yellow Bontrager Race Disk wheelset. Its been ridden all of FOUR TIMES..Knowing my neighbor, probably ridden radically and bone breakingly..now it has sentimental value and I can never sell it. It has a good home and will get ridden. Alot. Now does anyone know anything about these damn G1 brakes?