These brakes are a pain in the arse, early IS Mount (International Standard) calipers messing around with shim washers between the forks and calipers to centralise the pads/rotor, manual adjuster on the cylinder reservoir to allow for fluid expansion, the plunger inside has a habit of getting stuck on the adjuster threads so you turn the adjuster and nothing happens, had to ride back with the brakes binding once.

Old mountain bike with RockShox isn't really ideal for road miles.

When I was in secondary school my mate's dad died and he went ham with the inheritance, he had one of the first carbon fibre full suspension mountain bikes, a GT STS (Really exotic at the time) and also had a Hoffman Flatland BMX which was probably a bit of a tank compared to modern bikes. Skateboard & Bmx vhs videos were quite big back then and he'd probably watched that Mad Mat Hoffman tape where he rode one of his bikes off a cliff while wearing a parachute to test the strength.

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