The 90’s were a wild time in the business of bikes. Full suspension had just entered the MTB world and V-brakes (introduced 1995) rovolutionized the braking performance. The popularity of mountain bikes has slipped through to other genres, giving birth to the cross bike and a Giant X-2000 - a bike made for cruising the roads and handling milder mountains, a bike that 20 years later would be given drop bars and be called gravel.