I really wish I had kept mine, they are steller bikes but I never took it out after I switched to 29ers.
Yours looks great but I do agree that that looks like BIG gearing.
the gearing is 42/16, really nice for urban/dirt roads but really not that useable for offroad
im having some problems whit the XTR brakes so fore the moment thy are swap for a set of red DX' while im looking for some nice avids, might be som ultimate or Ti' (i have a set of arch supreme but i think thy are a looking littel overkill)
its been sold two times here on retrobike and ones on mtb-news.de; so from what i know its been in germany, denmark, england and now back to denmark again, all that back and forth in 2010 alone it made me wounder how may owners this frame have had..
i PM catsoft, he got it from Bend, Oregon - via. craigslist... so i think i now has track this bike back to its first owner - how might have got it from Sinagua Cycles, flagstaff, Arizona (there was a sticker on the frame..)