I've owned some Mountain Cycle bikes all the way back from the days when the San Andreas still had a elastomere rear shock, MC upsidedown forks and some pretty big floating disc brakes that were ahead of its time.
As others I've also bought some other cool stuff like Yeti's but always came back to MC.
While being a customer and later distributor for Switzerland I owned some different San Andreas, Moho and even a Shockwave. Needles to say that none of these bikes ever turned me down unless i've made some own crazy modifications.
I love to rember the early days when we played around with self modified shocks, forks and even made some conversions of the MC discbrake to use it as a full hydraulic version. Sure we had some problems with our own modifications like braking changed and extrem milled up Rock Shock SL Ti forks, exploding brakes etc. But hey, back in those days all was about suspension/brake pioniering and weight savings. Who would ride a Downhill race today with a 800g fork that was designed for 3.5 cm of travel but has been modified to 8cm of travel but just got about no more overlap? LOL The market was still so small and real good and better performance parts were very rare if available at all. We also liked to tinker and experiment around with stuff... Don't we all like this?:o)
I also remember a fun situation when a friend was visiting me from the Staates, having a flight in trough London. He brought a Risse rear suspension part along to replace that original MC Elastomer shock and when the police checked him at the airport the bomb squad was alerted because they thought it was a grenade. LOL... OK, he has a German last name and at the same time there was a world war II veteran meeting in London... But the bomb squad just didn't belive him it was a rear suspension part for a bike.. who uses a full suspension bike theses days they asked him...

In the past years i've been involved in other sports on a very high level and also recovered from a very bad firefighting accident, which was happening because some engineer thought a life saving climbing part should be so damn light that it can brake..
But hey.. I've done such stuff too but never hurt anybody else then my self because I never sold my experiments...

So here I'm. Looking around to get back into the Mountainbiking sport.
Hell, the mountains are screaming at me since a very long time to ride them down again..