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Just got it put back together tonight! The original Alivio crank and square taper bb are gone (the bb seized) in favor of a new SLX crank. Everything else is pretty much the same, sans the fork (the original Rock Shock Indy SL got pretty sticky), which I replaced with an 04 Manitou Black...

I posted pics of my 92 Alpinestars Al-Mega a few weeks back, and after reading posts by other Al-Mega owners, I counted myself lucky that I hadn't had any of the problems with cracking that others have had. Well, last week I decided to load her up for a trip to our local mountain biking area...

I replied in one of the other Alpinestars threads, but was encouraged to start my own. I started road riding back in the late 1980s, when I was in my 20's. As time wore on, I acquired better and better bikes. Sometime in the mid-90s, I got a job at a local Performance Bike shop, first doing...