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| The first mountain bike suspension fork was made by RockShox, designed by [[bontrager:start|Keith Bontrager]] and [[http://mombatbicycles.com/Rock_Shox.htm|Paul Turner]]. A non-working concept fork was mated to a fully carbon, rear suspended Kestrel Nitro and shown at the January 1988 Long Beach bike show. Unfortunately, the Nitro was just a prototype and Kestrel wouldn't release a fully suspended mountain bike until [[https://www.kestrelbicycles.com/|1995]]. ((Kestrel did sell a fully carbon, //rigid// mountain bike in 1988: the [[https://www.oldschoolracing.ch/mountainbike/1988-kestrel-mxz/|MX-Z]]. The first all-carbon mountain bike.)) RockShox would go on to great success, selling $100M annually by 1996. ((Competition became fierce in the late 90's and RockShox sold itself to SRAM in 2002 for [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RockShox|$5.6M]]. It continues [[https://www.sram.com/en/rockshox|today.]]))((More RockShox history can be found at: [[https://www.oldschoolracing.ch/archiv/rock-shox/|oldschoolracing]].)) | The first mountain bike suspension fork was made by RockShox, designed by [[bontrager:start|Keith Bontrager]] and [[http://mombatbicycles.com/Rock_Shox.htm|Paul Turner]]. A non-working concept fork was mated to a fully carbon, rear suspended Kestrel Nitro and shown at the January 1988 Long Beach bike show. Unfortunately, the Nitro was just a prototype and Kestrel wouldn't release a fully suspended mountain bike until [[https://www.kestrelbicycles.com/|1995]]. ((Kestrel did sell a fully carbon, //rigid// mountain bike in 1988: the [[https://www.oldschoolracing.ch/mountainbike/1988-kestrel-mxz/|MX-Z]]. The first all-carbon mountain bike.)) RockShox would go on to great success, selling $100M annually by 1996. ((Competition became fierce in the late 90's and RockShox sold itself to SRAM in 2002 for //only// [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RockShox|$5.6M]]. It continues [[https://www.sram.com/en/rockshox|today.]]))((More RockShox history can be found at: [[https://www.oldschoolracing.ch/archiv/rock-shox/|oldschoolracing]].)) |
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