im a bit stunned at the excitement over the c 26, im sorry guys and you will all shout at me but i remember the day 3 fat blokes decided to go down a mountain on beach cruises and at the bottom they said lets do that that again.
now them 3 bikes are the holy grail of mountain biking. the c 26 was made and then they broke and if they never broke they were just wrong in every sense IE: bonding, geometry. I would say a raleigh dyno-tech had better bonding and they were crap. The simple truth is they made the c26 and give it to the selected few to test and ride and then found all the faults and said we will make no more.
joe breeze, tom ritchey, russ mahon and there klunker bikes are the holy grail. which they used to repack there hubs with grease at the bottom of a mountain.
im sorry guy's but saying a c26 is the holy grail is like saying shimanos reverse shifting is the holy grail, it was crap that is why they stopped making it, just like the c26.
Get the original klunker off joe breeze or russ mahon or tom ritchey now that would be game over and the holy grail.
rant over