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My first mountain bike was a 1996-ish GT Avalanche with a rigid steel fork. It was light and fast, but stiff as hell and rattled me to death.
Later I built a Soma Groove (steel hardtail) with a bunch of used components and a short XC fork. It was nothing fancy, but I had endless fun on that bike. I wish I had never sold it.
Nice! The bike that started my obsession with riding and what later became this bike through years of upgrading parts before changing frames etc was a Saracen X-ess which originally came with some dodgy late 90s SR suntour forks and plenty of plastic shit :D