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Edited to add: Thanks for all the helpful advice!! I'm following your advice and will look for a more "fresher" bike!!! I'm considering buying an old FS carbon bike locally as my first mb to take off road. It's listed for $300 but will try to see if he will let it go for $250. I'm also inquiring on a $250 2001 fs Giant AC1 (but it's a large frame, located on the other side of the island and the owner hasn't emailed me back....may already be sold) and a $225 2010 Giant Revel 2 hardtail Background info: I'm 46, 195 lbs (about 40 lb overweight) and one of my shoulder sockets is starting to act up. My weight and bad shoulder is a big part of the reason for interest in a lightweight fs bike. I'm basically looking for a comfortable bike to ride off road. It's mainly for exercise. Plan to do xc and occasionally very very lite dh. I know that I should wait till I've had more experience before I buy a fs but I'm debating pulling the trigger now due to the decent price (checked ebay) for a carbon fs, it can be inspected/tested (unlike ebay) and I may never see another one available in my locale. (I have to admit I have something for old bikes...........or I'm just super cheap) I figure that if it doesn't work out, I could resell it or part it out without taking too much of a loss. Current equipment: I currently own 2 old rigid frame bikes, a 1994 Bridgestone MB6 (my backup, free from my friend and what got me interested in biking) and a 1998 (?) GT Palomar (my favorite, $40 and came with a good foot pump). I use them to commute 2 blocks from a parking lot to work, riding around the neighorhood and also on a paved bike path. Thanks in advance for your help/advice!!!  

I wouldn't buy an FS bike that old, especially not a carbon one. Technology has changed a lot since 1996 and who knows whats happened to the frame, not to mention a modern aluminum frame might be as light or even lighter.  

i just asked the guy next to me...(hes been "in" bikes forever, so i trust him). his response? "no, it will probably break". i guess things have much improved since then!  

The Trek "Y" series of bikes are generally considered a poor full suspension design. They weren't particularly good when new, and 15 years later they're no better. I'd look elsewhere. If your price range is $350(ish) I'd look at hard tails only. While you might find an incredible deal on a full suspension bike, chances are at that price you're buying a pogo stick.  

One of the guys on a local board was on the design team for those bikes and has said they weren't really ever released in a version with the components (shock especially) that made them work as designed. Hence, they never really enjoyed a great reputation. Even if they had, I would be suspect of 15 year old carbon frame technology and wear/tear.  

jeffj said: One of the guys on a local board was on the design team for those bikes and has said they weren't really ever released in a version with the components (shock especially) that made them work as designed. Hence, they never really enjoyed a great reputation. Even if they had, I would be suspect of 15 year old carbon frame technology and wear/tear. Click to expand...

Tens years on and I still don't know what components he feels would have been better. As long as you're enjoying it, that's what matters most.  

Classic.  

@tim808 If you want a decent bike for basic exercise stay away from any old MTB that's not what was a time proven model for it's vintage. If off road really means unpaved pathways vs single track with rocks, roots, drops and water an older good hybrid bike might be best. The whole industry has availability problems but try a modern bike before you spend money because you'll know instantly if that's a difference where you really want to spend money. My area has a used shop that fixes up good older hybrid bikes and that gets people on pretty good stuff if the aim is not true MTB riding.  

@jeffj I closed the deal on another frame for $250 and it should be here Tuesdayish. I can't wait to get all my M-950 stuff on it and get to ripping. Party on! Excellent!  

Looking forward to the pics. Still love the vintage stuff.  

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If you want something light, and are doing XC with the occasional DH, why would you get a FS and not a hardtail? Also, carbon doesn't save as much weight as you'd think, and a modem aluminum frame is probably lighter than an older carbon. Nowadays they use a lot of carbon material, so the weight savings is hardly noticable. If it was me I'd bump up my budget a bit and get a used hardtail. $600 is a reasonable price to get a solid bike. FS you're carrying a rear shock which is gonna add weight. At $350, you're not gonna get anything that benefits you cause it's old and outdated. Hardtail would be a much better option given your fitness goals and trails you'll be riding. Good luck!  

I hope the OP has made his decision already. His post was from 10 years ago.  

Unless your budget is really that low, bikes like this in this day are jsut dated and pointless. a 1000-1200 modern trail hardtail will be better at everything, and may save you from some medical bills and upgrade cost to a very old, dated and quite frankly poor performing bike.  

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The Trek Y 22 is a full-suspension mountain bike with a carbon and aluminum OCLV / T6 / Fox frame. The frame comes in colors like cream, carbon and Blaze  Red.

It was originally released in 1995. Due to the frame materials, we estimate that this bike weighs around 30 pounds.

The Y 22 comes with Shimano Deore components, including an aluminum, ICON, System 3 Bontrager stem, a threadless, WTB, Dia-Compe Kontak Aheadset Tange-Seiki DX-2 headset and grip-shift, Shimano Deore, SRT-800 X-Ray ESP 900 shifters.

The Answer Manitou X-Vert and Rock Shox Judy XC fork has a true suspension.

The Y 22 has 8 speeds and has a Shimano ESP 9.0 derailleur.

It comes with kevlar, Bontrager Jones, Tioga Psycho Panaracer tires (26in x NaN) and metal matrix composite, Bontrager Valiant, VooDoo Swami rims.

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The Trek Y22: What Full Suspension Looked Like in 1997

Walking into a bike shop today, a row of different trail bikes may look somewhat homogeneous. If you were to travel back in time to the 1990s, that same row of bikes would look more like a hodgepodge of experiments, with radical frame designs and suspension platforms. Few mountain bikes serve as a better example of 90s experimentation than the Trek Y-Series.

This week, I had the pleasure of reviewing and testing a completely original (and very well-preserved) 1997 Trek Y22 owned by an individual here in Brevard, NC. This particular bicycle, I believe, was a size large, yet it appears smaller than every size-small bike I own. This was normal geometry for the 90s, as mountain bikes continued their gradual trajectory away from road bikes.

Upon its release, the Y-Series captured the attention of both mountain bikers and cycling journalists for obvious reasons. The Y-shaped carbon fiber frame was—distinctive, to say the least, and it garnered mixed reactions, much like a linkage fork or 36-inch-wheeled bike might today. Almost 30 years later, it still looks as strange as it did back then.

However, the Y-Series actually addressed several challenges with full suspension platforms at the time, including pedal bob, bearing fatigue, and weight. At 25 lbs (11.34 KG), you would be hard-pressed to find a lighter full suspension bike today under $8000. Back in 1997, the Y22 was $2200, which is about $4000 when you adjust for inflation.

It’s for all these reasons that I love testing older mountain bikes. An entry-level mountain bike today is vastly more capable than even the highest-end mountain bikes were in 1997. However, the experience of riding a vintage bike is never lacking in fun. The Y22 I tested was light, ‘darty’, surprisingly smooth, and shockingly capable when pointed uphill. Downhill, the ride was absolutely terrifying, thanks to 90s geometry. Thankfully, this beautiful Y22 is back with its owner now, safe from my shenanigans.

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Why were so many metro stations in Moscow renamed?

Okhotny Ryad station in Soviet times and today.

The Moscow metro system has 275 stations, and 28 of them have been renamed at some point or other—and several times in some cases. Most of these are the oldest stations, which opened in 1935.

The politics of place names

The first station to change its name was Ulitsa Kominterna (Comintern Street). The Comintern was an international communist organization that ceased to exist in 1943, and after the war Moscow authorities decided to call the street named after it something else. In 1946, the station was renamed Kalininskaya. Then for several days in 1990, the station was called Vozdvizhenka, before eventually settling on Aleksandrovsky Sad, which is what it is called today.

The banner on the entraince reads: "Kalininskaya station." Now it's Alexandrovsky Sad.

Until 1957, Kropotkinskaya station was called Dvorets Sovetov ( Palace of Soviets ). There were plans to build a monumental Stalinist high-rise on the site of the nearby Cathedral of Christ the Saviour , which had been demolished. However, the project never got off the ground, and after Stalin's death the station was named after Kropotkinskaya Street, which passes above it.

Dvorets Sovetov station, 1935. Letters on the entrance: "Metro after Kaganovich."

Of course, politics was the main reason for changing station names. Initially, the Moscow Metro itself was named after Lazar Kaganovich, Joseph Stalin’s right-hand man. Kaganovich supervised the construction of the first metro line and was in charge of drawing up a master plan for reconstructing Moscow as the "capital of the proletariat."

In 1955, under Nikita Khrushchev's rule and during the denunciation of Stalin's personality cult, the Moscow Metro was named in honor of Vladimir Lenin.

Kropotkinskaya station, our days. Letters on the entrance: "Metropolitan after Lenin."

New Metro stations that have been opened since the collapse of the Soviet Union simply say "Moscow Metro," although the metro's affiliation with Vladimir Lenin has never officially been dropped.

Zyablikovo station. On the entrance, there are no more signs that the metro is named after Lenin.

Stations that bore the names of Stalin's associates were also renamed under Khrushchev. Additionally, some stations were named after a neighborhood or street and if these underwent name changes, the stations themselves had to be renamed as well.

Until 1961 the Moscow Metro had a Stalinskaya station that was adorned by a five-meter statue of the supreme leader. It is now called Semyonovskaya station.

Left: Stalinskaya station. Right: Now it's Semyonovskaya.

The biggest wholesale renaming of stations took place in 1990, when Moscow’s government decided to get rid of Soviet names. Overnight, 11 metro stations named after revolutionaries were given new names. Shcherbakovskaya became Alekseyevskaya, Gorkovskaya became Tverskaya, Ploshchad Nogina became Kitay-Gorod and Kirovskaya turned into Chistye Prudy. This seriously confused passengers, to put it mildly, and some older Muscovites still call Lubyanka station Dzerzhinskaya for old times' sake.

At the same time, certain stations have held onto their Soviet names. Marksistskaya and Kropotkinskaya, for instance, although there were plans to rename them too at one point.

"I still sometimes mix up Teatralnaya and Tverskaya stations,” one Moscow resident recalls .

 “Both have been renamed and both start with a ‘T.’ Vykhino still grates on the ear and, when in 1991 on the last day of my final year at school, we went to Kitay-Gorod to go on the river cruise boats, my classmates couldn’t believe that a station with that name existed."

The city government submitted a station name change for public discussion for the first time in 2015. The station in question was Voykovskaya, whose name derives from the revolutionary figure Pyotr Voykov. In the end, city residents voted against the name change, evidently not out of any affection for Voykov personally, but mainly because that was the name they were used to.

What stations changed their name most frequently?

Some stations have changed names three times. Apart from the above-mentioned Aleksandrovsky Sad (Ulitsa Kominterna->Kalininskaya->Vozdvizhenka->Aleksandrovsky Sad), a similar fate befell Partizanskaya station in the east of Moscow. Opened in 1944, it initially bore the ridiculously long name Izmaylovsky PKiO im. Stalina (Izmaylovsky Park of Culture and Rest Named After Stalin). In 1947, the station was renamed and simplified for convenience to Izmaylovskaya. Then in 1963 it was renamed yet again—this time to Izmaylovsky Park, having "donated" its previous name to the next station on the line. And in 2005 it was rechristened Partizanskaya to mark the 60th anniversary of victory in World War II. 

Partizanskaya metro station, nowadays.

Another interesting story involves Alekseyevskaya metro station. This name was originally proposed for the station, which opened in 1958, since a village with this name had been located here. It was then decided to call the station Shcherbakovskaya in honor of Aleksandr Shcherbakov, a politician who had been an associate of Stalin. Nikita Khrushchev had strained relations with Shcherbakov, however, and when he got word of it literally a few days before the station opening the builders had to hastily change all the signs. It ended up with the concise and politically correct name of Mir (Peace).

The name Shcherbakovskaya was restored in 1966 after Khrushchev's fall from power. It then became Alekseyevskaya in 1990.

Alekseyevskaya metro station.

But the station that holds the record for the most name changes is Okhotny Ryad, which opened in 1935 on the site of a cluster of market shops. When the metro system was renamed in honor of Lenin in 1955, this station was renamed after Kaganovich by way of compensation. The name lasted just two years though because in 1957 Kaganovich fell out of favor with Khrushchev, and the previous name was returned. But in 1961 it was rechristened yet again, this time in honor of Prospekt Marksa, which had just been built nearby.

Okhotny Ryad station in 1954 and Prospekt Marksa in 1986.

In 1990, two historical street names—Teatralny Proyezd and Mokhovaya Street—were revived to replace Prospekt Marksa, and the station once again became Okhotny Ryad.

Okhotny Ryad in 2020.

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The Moscow Metro is the third most intensive subway system in the world after Tokyo and Seoul subways. The first line was opened on May 15, 1935. Since 1955, the metro has the name of V.I. Lenin.

The system consists of 12 lines with a total length of 305.7 km. Forty four stations are recognized cultural heritage. The largest passenger traffic is in rush hours from 8:00 to 9:00 and from 18:00 to 19:00.

Cellular communication is available on most of the stations of the Moscow Metro. In March 2012, a free Wi-Fi appeared in the Circle Line train. The Moscow Metro is open to passengers from 5:20 to 01:00. The average interval between trains is 2.5 minutes.

The fare is paid by using contactless tickets and contactless smart cards, the passes to the stations are controlled by automatic turnstiles. Ticket offices and ticket vending machines can be found in station vestibules.

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Great videos! Moscow Metro is just spectacular. I actually visited Moscow myself quite recently and wrote a post about my top 7 stations, please check it out and let me know what you think! :)

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A: Yes, Elektrostal hosts various events and festivals throughout the year, including XXXX and XXXX.

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