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I have a 1997 Amp B4 (F4 BLT fork) that's been garaged for the last few years, which I inherited from my father in 2000.
IIRC it was $4500 CAD or so, including pedals and handlebar extensions. ($0.72:1 USD:CAD at that time.)
Anyhow, I'm getting it overhauled at a local shop in the next few days - I'm wondering, how will this 11-year-old bike ride compared to a modern $3000 FS bike?
You'll break it sometime between now and the next six weeks.
Another way of putting it is the Amp is not going to take much abuse, it was a finesse bike but could be riden in a very technical way.
A few years I blew out my fork just before taking an extended mtn bike trip. After swapping out for my old Amp B4 I was actually pretty suprised how well it held up. It takes stutter bumps and big hits differently but it survived a hard week of riding in Central Oregon.
There is a kind of bigotry prevalent when we discuss older rides, the old "why would you want to ride this when you can ride that thing, it's s p.o.s."
I also suppose that Amp has some collector value at least everythin else does now.
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