Armstrong mountainbike?

[Leoncito]

A friend has had this bike for a while and was asking me if I knew anything about it, well ,tried finding info on it and no luck.Can anyone point me in the right direction?
Thanks in advance!

 

[SKPC]

Dunno...looks like a DBR (diamond back) downhill bike with a McMahon front end...old school, Horst Link, aluminum framed (not a good thing) long travel race bike. Any old aluminum downhill bike is suspect to not last much longer if you or he plans to ride it. Could be Chinese made, which most of this era were, but maybe not the more I look at it. Someone else could chime in here. The tubes are way fatter than most anything I have seen. Please supply better pics of the fork front to back...way cool old sus fork.

 

[fattyre]

More detailed pics would help. I wonder if there is a way to find a list of who licensed the Horst link design from Specialized? Might be one way to narrow it down.

 

[SKPC]

I was thinking about this thing and thought the fork looked almost Hannebrink-like and/or San Andreas Mountain Cycle from the cali central coast came to mind also. More pics please..