Please excuse bad photos. This RS1 came on my 1990 Bonty OR when I bought it used off ebay back in '02. It's, as you can see, different than any other RS1 I've ever seen.
Anyway, I never ran it because I had a mag 21 on it for a while then went fully rigid with a generic Tange front fork. I never ran it because it was missing the crown race shim, and I never could find one- until 2 weeks ago, which was suprisingly provident because I crashed bad and folded that Tange fork right over. Frame's still fine which is a tribute to Keiths philosophy, although I don't know if even he factored in 29 years of hard use.
Anyway anyway, Pumped it up, damn thing held air. Whacked it on the bike and I'm kinda digging it. But it's a bit of an enigma. The OR is *not* suspension corrected obviously, and we're talking a whopping 63mm of travel, AND the special Bonty crown, *but* it feels just as sharp and nimble with the suspension fork. And I've never seen this style of Bontrager sticker anywhere but on this one fork.
Could this have been an actual option for a 1990 OR frame build?
Anyway, I never ran it because I had a mag 21 on it for a while then went fully rigid with a generic Tange front fork. I never ran it because it was missing the crown race shim, and I never could find one- until 2 weeks ago, which was suprisingly provident because I crashed bad and folded that Tange fork right over. Frame's still fine which is a tribute to Keiths philosophy, although I don't know if even he factored in 29 years of hard use.
Anyway anyway, Pumped it up, damn thing held air. Whacked it on the bike and I'm kinda digging it. But it's a bit of an enigma. The OR is *not* suspension corrected obviously, and we're talking a whopping 63mm of travel, AND the special Bonty crown, *but* it feels just as sharp and nimble with the suspension fork. And I've never seen this style of Bontrager sticker anywhere but on this one fork.
Could this have been an actual option for a 1990 OR frame build?