Evidently, the pro peleton didn't read Winning, or didn't believe GDL's story, as half the field showed up with them in 1994.
Regards,
Jerry Moos
Bog Spring, Texas, USA
> From: Marie Autrey <ridingrabbit@earthlink.net>
\r?\n> Subject: [CR] duclos-lasalle and RockShox
\r?\n> To: "classicrendezvous" <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
\r?\n> Date: Saturday, September 26, 2009, 4:31 AM
\r?\n> I'm far away from my magazine
\r?\n> archive, so somebody else will have to verify (or disprove)
\r?\n> this.
\r?\n>
\r?\n> I recall an interview with Duclos-LaSalle in Winning
\r?\n> shortly after his second P-R win, in which he said that
\r?\n> riding the sprung forks was a nod to one of LeMond's many
\r?\n> sponsors, and that he rode with the 'boing' locked out.
\r?\n>
\r?\n> That might explain why they disappeared after two
\r?\n> years. Legislation may have had nothing to do with it
\r?\n>
\r?\n> Marie Autrey
\r?\n> Water Island, US VIrgin Islands, where only an optimist
\r?\n> goes in hurricane season