30 years ago-Deer Valley NORBA National coverage

Outland season for us was 1996, we ran outland frames with Mongoose decals, season prior in 1995 when leigh won worlds, we rode handmade Nicolai frames with mongoose decals (And the last 2 seasons on Mongoose, were Intense M1's with mongoose decals....we basically started that whole fad of riding for a bike brand that did not make DH worthy bikes and the moment Leigh and Lopes rode Palmers intense-it was game over "we have to ride that frame")...so that being said, the outland season was insane; we headed to first world cup in panticosa Spain, I brought 2 spare front ends in addition to their built bikes. First day of practice, they cracked the frames-both Leigh and Brian, I built up the spares and those broke on day 2. I called Byron Friday (BMX legend who worked for mongoose) to come fly out with more frames and lots of JB weld, so he arrived 30 hours later...this was back when it was many days of practice. It was a total shit show.

Outland welded up some beefy versions for the next race, and we eventually were going through frames less. The little vpp linkages down below were total garbage too, a dodgy bushing setup with c clips. Being a race tech in the 90's was literally the worst job due to the inferior product and sending your athletes (and in my case, my girlfriend, down a mountain knowing something would fail).

The Rockshox era was pretty damn good actually, on seals, the only place we had severe trouble was mammoth-that pumice ate seals alive, if you notice some mammoth coverage, boxxers had big rubber boots in later years which sacrificed performance but we could make it through a weekend.

Wrenches these days, having luxury time to put oil in hub bearings and solder spokes, pfffff

P.S. added a couple dozen more videos, gonna keep adding them.